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25 years of Country Life
4 Oct 2022This year we’re celebrating 25 years of one of RNZ’s best-loved programmes. Each week on Country Life we meet the people bringing New Zealand’s primary produce to the world. Producers travel around…
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Tour through the kiwifruit vines after frost causes devastation
Kiwifruit orchard foreman Dave Trafford takes Leah Tebbutt through the vines on the back of the quad bike, where mere metres apart the vines change from luscious and green, to barren as if they've…
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Farmer sets tuna hinaki in lake after getting rid of algae
Spencer Kahu has been farming in the Kaikōura District since he was 14. Now he's 24 and manages two large properties and for him, sustainability, conservation and gathering kai for the whānau go hand…
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Country Life Friday October 28 2022
Country Life is at a lake brought back to life near Kaikōura, we find out the damage frost can do to kiwifruit vines, and meet two farm managers who no longer reach for their gumboots first thing in…
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Farming without a fence
A high-tech farming system which lets dairy cows move around without fences has also meant big changes for dairy workers. The young team on Pete Morgan's farm aren't just moving breaks and pushing…
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Pioneering UMF: A beekeeper's story
After 25 years, Margaret Bennett is stepping back from an association she spearheaded. But there is still work to be done and she maintains she will be busy as a bee, but in the background.
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Country Life for 21 October 2022
21 Oct 2022Country Life chats to a mushroom grower who's been in the business for more than half a century, pops in on the pioneering couple behind New Zealand's manuka honey industry and shows off all the fun…
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Grassroots show a hit for punters
It's not what you show it's how you show it and they get it right at the 152nd Selwyn Spring Show. After a two year Covid hiatus the Ellesmere A&P Association shows that any urban rural divide is…
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Mushroom-grower hangs up his cap
Clive Thompson was a curious 16-year-old when he started out growing mushrooms back in the 1960s. More than half a century on, he's now selling his Wairarapa business Parkvale Mushrooms.
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Country Life for October 14 2022
Country Life is at a bull sale in North Canterbury, hears from long-time Pukekohe correspondent Stan Clark and learns how flour is ground the old fashioned way, by wind, in Foxton.
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A fine grind in Foxton
14 Oct 2022Flour is being ground the old fashioned way, powered by wind in Foxton's 17th century style Dutch windmill. Country Life takes a tour.
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25 Years of Country Life - Our man in Pukekohe
Throughout our quarter century we've relied on good hearted and informed people from around the country to share with us what's happening in their region. Their comments are compiled into the rural…
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Emotions flow at family run bull sale
The Timperlea Angus bull sale is one of the biggest days of the year for stud breeder Marie Fitzpatrick. It's also a time when her family get together to celebrate their love for farming and that…
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Raising rock art awareness for future kaitiaki
7 Oct 2022On the ceiling of a limestone cave in South Canterbury, a long, elegant sea creature has been drawn. Centuries after this taniwha [supernatural being] was carefully illustrated, the artist's pigments…
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Country Life for October 7 2022
This week Country Life hops on board a truck heading out to clean septic tanks, chats to a 13-year-old budding scientist who's helping beef up cattle with an experiment involving copper and discovers…
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A farmer's son and budding scientist
Thirteen-year-old budding scientist Finlay Ludbrook has had success with an experiment to see whether giving copper to cattle calves improves their condition.
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25 Years of Country Life - A Mucky Business
False teeth and wedding rings are among Mac McLaren's finds during his decades in the business of cleaning out septic tanks.
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Country Life for 30 September 2022
Country Life's new monthly series with Oxford farmer and youtube vlogger Alistair Bird starts this week - he'll be giving a monthly taste of his life on the land. In the first episode he tells us what…
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Farmer Time gets kids focused on farming
Best of 2022 - A new educational programme beams farmers into urban classrooms to talk about agriculture with school children.
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A year on the farm: Off to the local bull sale
In this new series, Alistair and Genna Bird share the ups and downs of farming life across the four seasons. In part one, Alistair heads to the Timberlea Angus bull sale in search of a fine yearling…
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A scent of the past on Māhia Peninsula
Best of 2022 - A plantation of ancient tītoki trees used for perfume is among the secrets unveiled by historian and writer Mere Whaanga who has researched the story of Taipōrutu - her ancestral land…
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Asparagus season about to start in North Island
Horowhenua asparagus grower Geoff Lewis tells Sally Wenley about some of the challenges of growing a commercial crop of the vegetable and the best way to eat them.
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Regenerating stream is great news for Rakaia salmon
24 Sep 2022It's been 70 years since fresh mountain water rippled through the east branch of Glenariffe Stream in Canterbury's Rakaia Gorge. Now, thanks to a generous bequest, it will soon flow again.
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High-tech strawberry farm aims high in Foxton
Best of 2022 - Country Life takes a tour of a high-tech strawberry farm in Foxton.
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