Sally Round
Full Episode for Friday 13 December 2024
This week the team meets a farming family in Golden Bay who grow, process and sell homegrown meat direct to the public. Audio
Country Life for 6 December 2024
This week, there's cheese and eggs on the menu with visits to poultry and goat farms. The team also takes a closer look at what's in the pipeline for farmers to help lower emissions. Audio
Turning forestry slash into something good for the planet
A large forestry and sheep and beef farm near the very top of the North Island has been experimenting with biochar from the slash from its pine trees to improve its soils and reduce carbon emissions Audio
Country Life Friday 29 November 2024
This week Country Life's learning about the art of making garden trugs and growing heirloom tomatoes and they'll take you to a farm growing trees, sheep and beef in the Far North. Audio
Controlling Bay of Plenty's Wallabies
Standing at the wallaby-proof fence in Rotorua biosecurity expert Dale Williams gives an update on efforts to control the pest. Audio
Full Episode for Friday 22 November 2024
This week Country Life's on a dairy farm where school kids are planting habitat for the endangered Canterbury Grass Skink and learning about biodiversity and pest control. Audio
On the hunt for wallaby at Ground Zero
A group of Te Arawa iwi are trying to reclaim their forest from mobs of wallabies which they say are killing the bush and gobbling up farmland pasture. While, national efforts to eradicate the pest… Audio
Country Life Friday 15 November 2024
This week Country Life chats to a horse mad Waikato woman training to be a saddler, meets a dairy farming couple who dairy no longer use imported feed and synthetic fertilisers, and heads out on a… Audio
County Life for Friday 8 November 2024
This week Country Life chats to a veterinarian at Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kohanga, about caring for native birds brought in to the centre and we're at a forum where scientists discuss the… Audio
Capturing greenhouse gases for farm feed
In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations Audio
Rory Dean - a rural vet inspired to write
Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and… Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
A round-up of conditions on farms and orchards around the country Audio
Country Life Friday 1 November 2024
This week Country Life chats to a rural vet, visits a farm where horticulture is helping addicts recover and finds out about a ground breaking plan to capture greenhouse gases for feeding farm… Audio
Getting cosy and creative under canvas
Schoolchildren are learning in a bell tent on a riverside farm in South Wairarapa. They're taking part in a project connecting the community to the river and moana. Audio
Country Life for Friday 25 October 2024
This week Country Life catches up with a dairy farmer embracing regenerative farming, a Gisborne flower farmer who makes beautiful bouquets between juggling two young kids and finds out how a farm… Audio