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Young hands help recreate ancient forest
Ancient podocarp forest has become a classroom for schoolchildren taking part in a project to link land, river and community
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A bird on the farm worth two in the bush?
How do you stop birds colliding with New York's skyscrapers and how can New Zealand farmers benefit from birds and other wildlife? These are just some of the questions Dr Sara Kross has been trying to…
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Farmer retires land he says 'shouldn't ever have animals on it'
"I've been farming on my own account for 52 years and cut down a fair share of trees, so now is my time to leave this place better than we found it," Chris Bolderston told Country Life.
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A sweet life farming salt - "just a man and his bucket"
James Moore is up to his knees in the waves at Cable Bay in Northland, a bucket in each hand. He's a small-scale salt farmer, with a plan to help others into salt farming.
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Country Life Friday 30 August 2024
This week the Country Life team heads to a small-scale salt farm in Northland and meets a conservationist collecting endangered wildflowers.
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The Ruatoria 'Noah's ark' for native plants
30 Aug 2024Māori conservationist Graeme Atkin is at home in Ruatoria where he's collected the "Noah's Ark" of endangered wild cuttings, including the beautiful ngutukākā or kākābeak flower.
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Guest - Dairy farmer Stephen Crawford
South Otago's biggest organic dairy farm might go conventional after news the dairy company which picks up the milk is reviewing the premiums for organic milk.
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Tropical fruit tree seedlings in high demand as climate changes
Warmer weather means people can now grow fruits like pawpaw and bananas as far south as Invercargill.
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Guest - A moment for the humble persimmon
Wayne Hall, general manager of Wi Pere Trust's horticulture team in Gisborne, shares his love of persimmons and a recipe for how to best enjoy the fruit.
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Country Life for Friday 23 August 2024
This week the Country Life team introduces us to New Zealand's agricultural trade envoy, Hamish Marr. Cosmo visits his family's arable farm near Methven... and demand for tropical fruit trees like…
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Globetrotting envoy Hamish Marr grows the New Zealand agriculture story
23 Aug 2024Methven farmer Hamish Marr is proud to showcase farmers' and growers' innovations to overseas governments "and anyone else who is buying our products".
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Wellington's goat scapes and a family's dairy dream
Meet the Steenkamp family behind The Brooklyn Creamery, supplying Wellington locals with fresh goat's milk and goat's milk products from just outside the city centre.
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Country Life for Friday 16 August 2024
This week the Country Life team meet the Steenkamp family who are milking it in Wellington. The family runs The Brooklyn Creamery, supplying the city with fresh goat's milk and goat's milk products…
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Guest - Kellogg scholar Rebecca Hyde
Rebecca farms sheep and beef in Scargill with her husband and father. She's also authored a project aimed at building collaboration with farming communities and Runanga in the Hurunui District.
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Trees help combat erosion on Hurunui hill country
There's often little that can be done to prevent erosion of farmland, but the roots which grow from trees like willow and poplar are one way to help secure land that is at risk of slipping and…
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MenzShed - a place where blokes can be blokes
A backyard initiative is keeping blokes busy in North Canterbury. The Cheviot MenzShed is a tooled-up workshop where men can tinker, talk and share their skills with the local community.
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Country Life for Friday 9 August 2024
This week on Country Life a high-tech lettuce farm in Taranaki, a tribute to the old fashioned dunny, a backyard project keeping blokes busy in North Canterbury and hort cadets in Wairoa getting their…
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Growing future growers in Wairoa
Tatau Tatau o Te Wairoa celebrates its first commercial apple harvest and the first of its horticulture cadets graduating. Along with Ohuia Incorporation, the trust has planted 28-hectares of…
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The rural dunny - a good place to do your business
A trip to the archives with a nostalgic tribute to that most humble and human New Zealand institution, the dunny, from a feature produced in 1975 by the team from long-running RNZ show Spectrum.
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Taking salad to the next level in Taranaki
A Waverley business has cut the ribbon on a 900 square metre state-of-the-art tunnel house. Salad Brothers took over the 1.1 hectare site about 18 months ago and aims to produce half a million…
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"They're not just clients they're friends "
Erin Middleton owns the only hair salon between Kaikoura and Amberley. The Cheviot hairdresser, who is also an emergency first responder, says she enjoys listening to her clients stories as much as…
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Country Life for Friday 2 August 2024
This week the Country Life team meet a shearer nicknamed Bo Peep who's found her dream job and they explore a food forest in the Hokianga.
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No lost sheep for this Bo Peep - pro shearer finds dream job
Shearer Brya Harrison, aka "Bow" Peep, gives lifestyle-block owners a helping hand with their sheep.
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A 'beautiful abundant food system' for future generations
Jared Hiakita has been germinating a seed of an idea while nurturing his food forest at the off-grid family farm in Hokianga. The seed has grown into a charity which will grow and donate fruit tree…
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