Sally Round

Crooked Vege's pay-what-you-can model may have been a radical idea two years ago but its vege box plan is working, with those who can't afford to pay subsidised by those who can. The small farm has… Audio

A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand. Audio

This week Country Life returns to a vegetable farm to see whether it's radical plan to feed the community is working and looks at plans for plastic waste on farm... And the team meet an animal… Audio

News that government this month said is looking to support a market system to help fund the huge cost of restoring nature could be music to the ears of farmers and iwi wanting to do their bit for… Audio

This week Country Life dives underground to take a closer look at soils, from Canterbury farmers using the Japanese Bokashi system to a market gardener making garden beds as rich as chocolate cake in… Audio

Nick Rahiri Roskruge is Country Life's guest this week. His work in agriculture and soil science have taken him far afield looking at crops sustaining indigenous communities. Audio

A wrap from RNZ's rural news desk. Audio

This week Country Life celebrates Matariki with stories about Maori horticultural wisdom and a couple setting up star gazing experiences on their farm. Audio

Hamish Sturgeon is only 12 but he's on his first farming venture rearing quails for their eggs. They're healthy, delicious and it's a fun side-hustle keeping the cute little birds fed, watered and… Audio

This week Country Life is out and about at Fieldays, meets a boy with a side hustle farming quail eggs, and chats around the kitchen table with the Harvey family about their century of farming. Audio

Bob Teale's inventiveness has allowed him to keep growing a niche range of berries into his 80s. Old push chairs for harvesters and a handy little electric golf cart helps him run up and down the… Audio

A wrap from RNZ's rural news desk Audio

Country Life full episode for 6 June 2025. Audio

An hour's drive from the northern tip of Coromandel, you'll find a tiny post office run by volunteers. As rural postal services shrink, the small community here - population about 15-hundred - has… Audio

This week Country Life moves with the cows on that traditional day of the farming calendar - Mooving Day. The team's also in northern Coromandel where locals have fought back to retain their local… Audio

Informing, entertaining and connecting isolated farmers was a prime goal of the Radio Broadcasting Company, officially incorporated in August 1925 and a forerunner to RNZ. As RNZ celebrates the… Audio

A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector. Audio

This week Country Life visits a Taranaki conservationist on the family farm, learns more about a Canterbury family making cosy coffins from their farms wool to provide a comfortable send off, and we… Audio

Fording rivers and driving a dangerous winding road is all in a day's work for a midwife working in one of the country's most remote regions. Country Life's Sally Round hopped in with her to find out… Audio

Rural midwife Sheryl Wright drives a winding dangerous road and even fords rivers to get to pregnant and new mothers in northwest Coromandel. She provides maternity care in the largest "very remote"… Audio