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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

As well as selling top quality wool to buyers around the world, Polly and Ross McGuckin's Yaldhurst Wools business also provides funeral homes with biodegradable caskets and ash urns made from New… 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

A lot of Waitaha farmers are moving away from the traditional system of running ewes and finishing their own lambs. Now they're all in the market to buy in and finish other people's lambs. Audio

This week Country Life heads to the saleyards in Canterbury, meets a Taranaki woman weaving locally-grown wool into blankets and finds out what it's like to be a rural midwife working in a very remote… Audio

The tree shaker and walnut picker-upper are cracking ahead at Heather North and Clive Marsh 16-hectare nuttery near Lincoln. By harvest's end, over 30 tonnes of dried walnuts will be turned into… Audio

There are two sorts of harvest on Country Life this week - muttonbirds on the titi islands and walnuts at one of Canterbury's biggest walnut orchards. Also, a trip into the past to visit an historic… Audio

This week Country Life is at a pumpkin farm in Manawatu, finding out about seed growing and meets a photographer from South Auckland who's spending time at one of New Zealand's iconic hill country… Audio

They started growing vegetables in a paddock for lockdown vege boxes. Five years on, Penny Platt, her brother Ollie and Issac Green grow over 40 crops on 24 hectares of chemical free farmland. Audio

This week Country Life meets Hawke's bay stud owner Tony Thompson who's been breeding cattle for half a century. The team also find out about an organic vege growing business in Canterbury and chat to… Audio

18-month-old Charlie Munro is a climber and already knows some dog calls. His Mum, Anna, also grew up at Cravendale near Mount Somers. The photographer and physio is leasing the 450ha farm off her… Audio

This week on Country Life we check out an artificially constructed lake on Braemore Farm that's built for water storage and fun... and farming with a toddler in tow. Anna and Mitch Munro are out on… Audio

A commercial nursery in Waihopai Invercargill, called Te Kohaka o Tane, has grown over 800,000 native plants and trees since it opened in 2022, more than half of which have already gone into the… Audio

This week on Country Life the team take a walk on the wild side with a herd of water buffalo in Clevedon, check out a botanical growing trial in Taranaki and visit a Runaka-owned and operated native… Audio

Gloria Harris has been running a little owl and morepork rescue service in Southland for 30 years. "I've probably cared for close to 300 birds," she told Country Life. Audio

This week on Country Life the team catch up with a Wairarapa farming family that's added sheep dairy to their farming operation, and Gloria Harris, who runs a little owl and morepork rescue service… Audio

A training programme in Southland is giving young adults with high-functioning disabilities, the skills required to work on a dairy farm. Michial Todd was the first to graduate and now he's a… Audio

This week Country Life takes a look at how the folk at Kai Rotorua are preparing for the upcoming kumara harvest. Also, a training programme in Southland is giving young adults with high-functioning… Audio

Sometimes it takes an outsider to come in and give a dyed-in-the-wool farmer a wee nudge. This is where Southland entrepreneur Laura Todd comes in. Audio

This week on Country Life the team catch up with some sheep farmers busy with docking and crutching on the land, and then a taste of the sea, as they sample different seaweeds. Audio