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Akaroa Salmon's ocean farm floats discreetly in a tranquil bay near the heads of Akaroa harbour. Seventeen huge round netted pens are home to thousands of King salmon of varying sizes. Duncan Bates… Audio

Country Life this week heads out to sea with an Akaroa salmon farmer and meets pickers helping out with a bumper feijoa harvest in Hawke's Bay. Audio

Country Life this week is having a yarn about Polwarth sheep and joins the audience at a country hall in Hawke's Bay which is among several in the district playing host to live music by top musicians.

Environmental and social trials are underway on a dairy farm near Ashburton. Rhys and Kiri Roberts are comparing conventional farming with a regenerative system, they're giving staff more work… Audio

Market garden on farm provides staff with healthy vege boxes, Swapping crops and building communities, Success comes from hard work and on the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Audio

Country Life is drinking coffee in Northland and, at 60 dollars for 130 grams it makes a cup of coffee a tad more than even the recently talked about $7 cup. There's gritty determination from a farmer… Audio

Beef farmer Bex Trotter has transformed a roadside paddock into a strawberry field at Luggate in Central Otago. Despite a lack of tourists Red Bridge Berries has been well supported in its first… Audio

Rain and now sun mean grass growth has been phenomenal around the country but the grain and seed harvest in Canterbury have suffered. Audio

Country Life heads to the world's largest worm farm, Black Siberian cherry trees are growing wild on a farm in North Canterbury and a beef farmer in Central Otago transforms a roadside paddock into a… Audio

Full Episode for Friday February 18 2022 Audio