Farming
Trug-making almost a lost art
Tony Hitchcock has been crafting trugs - wooden garden baskets - for several years using untreated willow or hazel and poplar sourced locally from around Golden Bay.
On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
A round-up of conditions on farms and orchards around the country. Audio
Country Life Friday 29 November 2024
This week Country Life's learning about the art of making garden trugs and growing heirloom tomatoes and they'll take you to a farm growing trees, sheep and beef in the Far North. Audio
Ditching the lawn mower and other curious ways to grow great tomatoes
Meet Anthony and Angela Tringham, of Curious Croppers, the couple growing heirloom tomatoes using agroecology principles.
The cost of losing GE-free labelling on primary exports
A new report suggests they could be reduced by up to $10-20 billion in revenue each year.
Hawke's Bay farmers under pressure after one of driest springs for decades
Farmers are off-loading stock and crop are failing to strike as dry conditions start to bite.
Schoolkids put buzz back into biodiversity on a dairy farm
Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn heaps about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury farm.
Live exports a bad look for NZ, port workers union says
The Maritime Union also has zero faith in government assurances of a gold standard for ships used for the trade. Audio
Nature literate kids
Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn heaps about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury dairy farm. Audio
RNZ's climate correspondent on greenhouse gases
Eloise Gibson talks agriculture's role in the production of greenhouse gases, what people get right and wrong about methane, and explains exactly what the ETS is. Audio
