Sally Round

People are being urged to watch for exhausted seabirds and tiny nestlings blown from their nests in the wild weather.

A recent study has filmed the rare and vulnerable birds entering vineyards and orchards at night to feast on beetles, weevils, grass grub and other insects.

Springer Spaniel Indie has just finished her first harvest as a truffle hunter, showing outstanding skills for a pup.

Huhana Smith grows fruit and harakeke at Kuku, north of Wellington. Standing on the shoulders of her ancestors, she's growing healthy food and, potentially, a sustainable fashion industry.

Meet Jacob Smith, the 21-year-old turning wool and veggie scraps into fashion-forward biodegradable shoelaces.

Fifteen-year-old Jack Karetai-Barrett took Country Life on a night walk through Whakatāne's kiwi country.

Beth Pearsall wants to revive the ancient skill of scything. She loves swishing the sharp-bladed tool through her own garden and holds workshops to teach others about the scythe and its uses.

Stephen Newman has gone from IT to conventional farming to becoming a devotee of the regenerative farming movement.

It's a busy time of year for Stacey Faith, calving 300-plus cows, rearing their calves and keeping the Faith Farm's roadside milk dispensing outlet going, providing locals with milk fresh from the…

Country Life: A honey shed on a hill is buzzing with the sound of honey flowing into jars as the bees take a hard-earned rest from honey-making.

What was once waste is now a resource thanks to a clever collaboration between classrooms, care homes, cafes and countryside.

Crooked Vege's pay-what-you-can model may have been a radical idea two years ago but its vege box plan is working.

Country Life: What are biodiversity credits and how can they work for NZ?

An hour's drive from the northern tip of Coromandel Peninsula, you'll find a tiny post office run by volunteers. As rural postal services shrink, the small community here ensures the old motto "the…

The story of a pioneering family of Dalmatian immigrants has been kept alive through a cluster of old sheds on the Devcich farm near Thames.

Dan Tarrant's ancestors have been harvesting muttonbirds or tītī for 500 years. The autumn harvest is a family affair and a chance to pass down skills and traditions.

It's nearly time for the kūmara harvest at Kai Rotorua and this year, old meets new.

Farming in the wake of the Mount Tarawera eruption has tested the Ford family for nearly a century.

Farmer Bradley Riggs has more than just the sheep to think about. He has high profile guests and celebrities staying at the farm's luxury lodge and enjoys showing them the kiwi farming life and…

Alison Bentley is a small-scale farmer with big ideas on how smaller farms can help solve the growing problem of food insecurity in New Zealand.

Fang Mei在银行工作期间与葡萄酒结缘，如今她自己经营果园，也有了自己的品牌，并用葡萄酒文化将新西兰与中国联系在一起。

Fang Mei's love of wine was sparked by the New Zealand tradition of Friday drinks and the discovery that she had a good palate. Now she has her own vineyard in Martinborough and educates people in…

Aerial topdresser John Bargh has notched up 30,000 hours in the air in nearly five decades spreading fert on hill country farms. Despite tough economic times, his passion for flying remains.

It's 30 years since the Elworthy family began the Tora Coastal Walk, one of the first multi-day hikes on farmland in NZ. It's been the key to this rugged farm's survival.

A range of tools are not too far off to knock back greenhouse gases from livestock burps.