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Rugged farmland reverting back to bush
700 hectares of hill country on Nigel and Cathy Graham's Kaikoura farm is being retired. Income from honey and carbon credits are repacing livestock on the regenerating land. The couple have also…
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A taste of country in growing suburbia
Once on the outside of Hamilton sits an urban farm keen to deliver vegetables that don't cost the planet. Run by five women, Earth Stewards practices poly-cropping on their organic vegetable beds.
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Full Episode for Friday February 10 2023
Country Life vists a suburban market garden delivering vegetables that don't cost the earth and a beef farm where hills are being returned to native bush. Also in the show, a trip to Fossil Creek Farm…
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Fossil Creek Farm: 'It hugs you'
Children and teens with mental health issues are entranced when they spend time at Fossil Creek Farm just outside Nelson. The donkey Holly senses when she should snuggle close and the rhythm of egg…
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On the Farm - Floating onions and slipping farmland
Assessment of damage is underway in Pukekohe after a deluge of rain saw onions floating down the street and farms turned into lakes. Kiwifruit vines and structures have also been wiped out - while…
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Downhill adventures for diversifying farmers
A new mountain bike park has the run of the hills at Rick and Julia King's farm at Clarence near Kaikōura. It's the brainchild of their daughter Genevieve and has replaced the Merino sheep and cattle…
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From one bunch to four greenhouses
With no flora experience but the need for a new direction, Colin and Mary Birch have become the owners of a lily nursery in Cambridge.
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Country Life for Friday February 3
This week Country life is at a new mountain bike park that has the run of the hills at Rick and Julia King's farm at Clarence near Kaikōura. The team also visits flood-stricken growers south of…
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More boots on the ground for Gisborne clean-up
Farmers in Tairāwhiti are looking forward to having more boots on the ground this month to help clean up their farms still littered with forestry debris from recent floods. Regional Federated Farmers…
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A year on the farm: The calves get a health check
Oxford farmer Alistair Bird explains what happened on-farm in December and gets some calves ready for living on the hills.
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Billy Barton - 'They call me the Ferret Man'
Billy Barton used to compete with ferrets as a past-time in his native Wales. Now he trains them and a pack of white shepherd dogs to hunt out rabbits and feral cats in NZ's war against pests.
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Country Life for 27 January
Billy Barton - 'They call me the Ferret Man', A Year on the Farm - Part 4: Calves get health check before heading onto hills, Grape growth on track at organic vineyard, and On the Farm - a wrap of…
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Grapes on track at estate-grown winery
The unique limestone hills of the Waipara Valley are home to Greystone's 50-hectare organic vineyard. General manager and founding viticulturist Nick Gill says that despite a lack of direct sunlight…
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Summer Series: Country Life for 20 Jan 2023
Farmer Time gets kids focused on farming, Plenty of wriggle room for world's largest worm farm & From Mother to Daughter - A Smooth Transition for Multi-generation Farmers
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Summer Series: Country Life for 13 January 2023
Okarito GorseBusters, Horse and plough add French touch to Marlborough vineyard & Sheep farmers roll out woolen mat for the wellness market
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Summer Series: Country Life for 6 January 2023
Join Us, Sheep farmer struggles to control huge hungry hoppers & Healing by Horse
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Summer Series: Country Life for 30 December 2022
A scent of the past on Mahia Peninsula, Putting a steak in the ground with heritage breed & Nevalea Alpaca
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Summer Series: Country Life for 23 December 2022
Working dogs go under the hammer, Aiming for Sweet Success - from old carpet factory to vertical strawberry farm & Choice Cherimoyas
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The full circle journey for this avocado orchard manager
After pursuing a career in fashion, dabbling as a yoga instructor and a snowboard instructor, Laura Schultz has found where she was meant to be, was actually where she had been running from.
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Sam Neill - finding balance among the vines
Veteran New Zealand actor Sam Neill returned to his Central Otago vineyard earlier this month to find vines shooting up, pet pigs waiting for a scratch and a young stand of native trees thriving on a…
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Country Life for December 16 2022
On the vineyard with Sam Neill, chook rescuers seek happy homes for hens, the full circle journey for a young avocado orchard manager and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ.
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Chook rescuers seek happy homes for hens
Hundreds of chickens are up for adoption after clawing their way back to health. The birds are under the caring wing of volunteers at North Canterbury Chicken Rescue. Some are found abandoned on…
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From pasture to biodiversity on a Whanganui farm
Look underneath and you'll know what's right for the land, says forest and soil consultant Ian Moore. He's hanging up his workboots and now has more time to spend nurturing stands of harakeke…
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