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Country Life for 30 September 2022
Country Life's new monthly series with Oxford farmer and youtube vlogger Alistair Bird starts this week - he'll be giving a monthly taste of his life on the land. In the first episode he tells us what…
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Farmer Time gets kids focused on farming
Best of 2022 - A new educational programme beams farmers into urban classrooms to talk about agriculture with school children.
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A year on the farm: Off to the local bull sale
In this new series, Alistair and Genna Bird share the ups and downs of farming life across the four seasons. In part one, Alistair heads to the Timberlea Angus bull sale in search of a fine yearling…
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A scent of the past on Māhia Peninsula
Best of 2022 - A plantation of ancient tītoki trees used for perfume is among the secrets unveiled by historian and writer Mere Whaanga who has researched the story of Taipōrutu - her ancestral land…
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Asparagus season about to start in North Island
Horowhenua asparagus grower Geoff Lewis tells Sally Wenley about some of the challenges of growing a commercial crop of the vegetable and the best way to eat them.
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Regenerating stream is great news for Rakaia salmon
24 Sep 2022It's been 70 years since fresh mountain water rippled through the east branch of Glenariffe Stream in Canterbury's Rakaia Gorge. Now, thanks to a generous bequest, it will soon flow again.
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High-tech strawberry farm aims high in Foxton
Best of 2022 - Country Life takes a tour of a high-tech strawberry farm in Foxton.
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Country Life for 23 September 2022
Young salmon urged to linger for longer in fenced off waterway, Aiming for Sweet Success - from old carpet factory to vertical strawberry farm, Asparagus season about to start in North Island and On…
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Sweet success for siblings at Waitaki Valley orchard
Growing stone fruit at Waitaki Orchards is a family affair. Justin and Julie Watt bought the 34-hectare property in 2003 and their six children all learnt how to prune, pick and pack. Their…
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Ginseng - digging new roots in NZ
16 Sep 2022Glen Chen sees huge potential in New Zealand for growing ginseng, a root which has been harvested for use in traditional Chinese medicine for thousands of years. He grows wild-simulated ginseng…
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25 Years of Country Life - Pig Passion
Pig hunting competitions are seen as a good community fundraiser and they're particularly popular just before lambing because it reduces pig numbers, stopping them preying on newborn lambs. The…
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Country Life for 16 September 2022
Country Life is in a secret location in the centre of the North Island digging under pine trees for ginseng, a root which is prized in traditional Chinese medicine. The team is also at the only…
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Canterbury sheep farmers roll out woollen exercise mats
Best of 2022 - With crossbred wool prices remaining low, Canterbury sheep farmers Jane and Mark Schwass are producing exercise mats with their wool clip.
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A day out whitebaiting - 'It's just what we've always done'
9 Sep 2022This year the whitebaiting season for most of New Zealand has been cut short by six weeks to help boost declining fish numbers. Country Life spent a morning keeping up tradition with some long-time…
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Daisy Lab - milk protein without the moo
New Zealand start-up, Daisy Lab, is making milk protein from microbes through precision fermentation, a technology which has the potential to be a major disruptor of NZ's multi-billion dollar dairy…
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Country Life for 9 September 2022
Country Life is out whitebaiting on the first day of the season and chats with the co-founder of a NZ start-up developing a process which could disrupt the dairy industry and Cosmo Kentish-Barnes…
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Fears of cow shortage as calf rearers in short supply
Fewer people are raising calves in some parts of the country this season, and concern is growing about a potential shortage of cattle further down the track.
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Shocking Weeds
2 Sep 2022The search for a non-herbicide weed control method has led to the development of novel electrical weeding technology.
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25 Years of Country Life - Queen of the Castle
In celebration of Country Life's 25th anniversary, we're sharing a popular 2008 story about writer Christine Fernyhough's midlife change from the Auckland business world to farming on a high-country…
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Country Life for 2 September 2022
Country Life this week profiles two women with quite different farming journeys. Christine Fernyhough's farming experience at Canterbury's Castle Hill Station is a story of a woman midlife having a go…
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Mairi Whittle - a Taihape farmer with two tiny tots in tow
3 Sep 2022A toddler on her back, a newborn in front and five dogs alongside... that's how you might find Taihape sheep and beef farmer Mairi Whittle. She's the fourth generation of her family to farm a steep…
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Sniffing dog stops wallabies skipping south
27 Aug 2022A cute detection dog called Toby is helping an Otago pest control team track down wily wallabies crossing the Waitaki River. The Aussie imports are escaping South Canterbury's Wallaby Containment…
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A dive back in time with poet Mike McGee
For more than fifty years Whanganui man Mike McGee hunted and tramped in the bush and ranges of the North Island. The love of the outdoors was in his blood and spurred him to write many poems about…
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Sheep farmer struggles to control huge hungry hoppers
26 Aug 2022Best of 2022 - Back in the 1950s, a group of wallabies turned up at Wainui Station... and never left.
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