Farming
Dollars for nature - a look at biodiversity credits
News that government this month said is looking to support a market system to help fund the huge cost of restoring nature could be music to the ears of farmers and iwi wanting to do their bit for… 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
Bokashi by the tonne - chocolate brown and teeming with worms
Two North Canterbury farmers have been bitten by the bokashi bug. As well as being a soil superfood, it's also cost effective.
Fruit and Vege Report with Glenn Forsyth
Glenn Forsyth's Fruit of the Week is here to freshen up your weekend from the produce markets. Audio
Advocates renew calls to end colony-cage egg farms
After the ban of conventional cages, producers had the option to move to colony cages, barns and free-range systems.
Could spiders help manage pests on New Zealand's farms?
It's been estimated that spiders consume up to 800 million tons of (mostly) bugs globally per year.
App made for farmers to control cattle
An app for farmers to control their cattle using sound and vibrations from a collar worn by the animals sounds like the future. Halter chief executive and founder Craig Piggott spoke to Corin Dann. Audio
Stars, soil and whakapapa - 'We're just caretakers really'
This Matariki, the stars align for Mark and Susannah Guscott - award winners bringing whakapapa and astronomy together on their sixth-generation Wairarapa farm. Audio
'We can grow anything here': Taranaki family's growing experiment
On their family whenua in north Taranaki, the McClutchies grow different crops and aspire to growing Māori medicinal plants.
'We can grow anything here' A family's growing experiment
The McClutchie whanau explores growing different crops, with aspirations to grow Maori medicinal plants, on their family whenua in North Taranaki. Audio
Nick Roskruge - digging into indigenous knowledge
Nick Rahiri Roskruge is Country Life's guest this week. His work in agriculture and soil science have taken him far afield looking at crops sustaining indigenous communities. Audio
