Duncan Smith
Full Episode for Friday 11 July 2025
This week Country Life follows the trail of food scraps from schools to farms with the City to Farm project north of Auckland and meets two young farming-focused youngsters at the top of their game. Audio
On the Farm: a wrap of conditions around the country
A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand. Audio
Country Life Friday 4 July 2025
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
Full Episode for Friday 27 June 2025
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
Full Episode for Friday 20 June 2025
This week Country Life celebrates Matariki with stories about Maori horticultural wisdom and a couple setting up star gazing experiences on their farm. Audio
Country Life Friday for 13 June 2025
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
Country Life Friday 30 May 2025
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
On the Farm - a wrap of farming around NZ
Country Life speaks to farmers and growers around NZ to find out about growing conditions over the past month. Audio
Country Life Friday 23 May 2025
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
Full Episode for Friday 16 May 2025
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
Full Episode for Friday 9 May 2025
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