Cosmo Kentish Barnes

Country Life visits Tokomaru Bay where locals have banded together to save their historic wharf. Cosmo pops in to Luisetti Seeds in Rangiora which is still going strong after Vincent Luisetti started… Audio

Go to a rural Canterbury club rugby match and chances are you'd be familiar with the name Luisetti Seeds. The company has been a sponsor of Canterbury country rugby for years. The firm began back in… Audio

Country Life chats with North Otago students who are burying cotton undies for six weeks to see how much they degrade and we're in Gisborne measuring forests and making salads... Audio

Country Life finds out how robotics are helping a dairy farm in Manawatu and meets some farmers who switched from milking cows to milking sheep this spring. Plus with all the talk around regenerative… Audio

As well as growing organic grapes for his boutique Terrace Edge brand, Waipara Valley viticulturist Pete Chapman has another wine label on the go and all the profits from it go to an organisation that… Audio

Despite the New Zealand Agricultural Show being cancelled this year due to Covid-19, some animal events still went ahead behind closed doors at Canterbury Park. The commercial pig competition was held… Audio

Country Life this week is out with a vet getting up close and personal with rams and the team's meeting some champion pigs. Audio

A West Otago couple were so sick of seeing so much synthetic clothing around they decided to do something about it. Waitahuna West sheep and beef farmers Murray and Julie Hellewell are making jerseys… Audio

Country Life this week speaks to a couple who have developed avocado varieties they say NEVER produce a dud, takes a tour of a grand historic home in Rangitikei and talks to an Otago couple making the… Audio

A cropping farmer at Sheffield in Canterbury is milling his own wheat and selling the flour to bakers around the country. Marty Scurr imported a stone mill from Austria last year and installed it in… Video, Audio