Sally Round
From selling shoes in China to sprouting microgreens in Te Puke
Kali sold shoes in China before coming to NZ. She discovered her green fingers just out of Te Puke where she has joined forces with her daughter to grow microgreens. Audio
Country Life Friday 20 September 2024
This week Country Life meets a mother and daughter duo who's microgreens business is going from strength to strength and they head to a North Canterbury dairy farm which is using crops to mop up… Audio
The inside skinny on China's consumers from Mark Tanner
Mark Tanner knows what people in China are consuming. He's the founder of China Skinny, a market research company based in Shanghai, and talks to Country Life about trends in NZ's largest market. Audio
Country Life for Friday 13 September 2024
Country Life talks to an expert on China's consumer market, meets a former high-flyer in the dairy world who's now farming a very different sort of protein and checks in on a niche rural business… Audio
"It's lovely planting new trees and making nature"
Children are planting trees to recreate the understorey of remnant ancient forest on the edge of a South Wairarapa river. It's the second story in a series about the Ruamahanga Farm Trust which wants… Audio
Adding birds to the farmer's toolbox
The growing strips of plantings separating rivers and roads from farmland on the Canterbury Plains has piqued the interest of Dr Sara Kross, an expert in how to encourage biodiversity on farm. Audio
Country Life Friday 6 September 2024
It's Conservation Week! This time the Country Life team meet a North Canterbury farmer who is retiring land he says "shouldn't ever have animals on it", we check back in with the school children… Audio
On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
It's been a kind winter for most North Island farmers now busy with lambing and calving, with warmer temperatures and plenty of rain helping to keep the grass growing. Meanwhile sheep farmers in the… Audio
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. Audio
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.
AudioTropical 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. Audio
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.
AudioCountry 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… Audio
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…
AudioCountry 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… Audio
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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