Carol Stiles

Lettuces are in short supply after frosts and rain in Southland has left farms muddy underfoot. Audio

Country Life joins Wellington artist Norbert Hausberg who is spending the winter planting natives on a steep hillside in North Otago and takes you to meet a couple putting their own twist on whisky… Audio

Country Life chats to a farmer who's researched how farmers around the world deal with pressure. Also on the programme, one of New Zealand's earliest organic growers invites us into his apple cider… Audio

Country Life checks out what a couple of meat companies and Fonterra are doing with the challenge of alternative proteins and we meet a couple who used to be high flying execs overseas who are now… Audio

A lack of cellphone reception means more time to focus on developing a farm for a self-taught farmer in Manuka Bay. Audio

Some sizable apple developments are going in around Waipawa in Hawke's Bay, but labour is limiting investor enthusiasm, while in the South Island, south Otago farms are dry underfoot and feed… Audio

This week Country Life is visiting a vegie patch on the Canterbury Plains and takes us to Nightcaps- a tiny coal mining town in the foothills of Southland's picturesque Takitimu mountains. Audio

Country Life talks to a farmer picking up the pieces after the mid Canterbury floods and takes a tour of a multi-million-dollar Rotorua building designed to showcase the sustainable use of wood. And… Audio

Country Life meets two Wairarapa brothers forging different paths on the family farm, one makes high quality chocolate from whoa-to-go and the other is dipping his toes into the niche food industry… Audio

Country Life heads to Pohatu Flea Bay on Banks Peninsula where a sheep farm is also home to a colony of White-flippered penguins. The team is also out baiting traps at a Hawke's Bay farm whose owners… Audio

Country Life rounds up some school leavers learning about sheep and beef farming and a Waikato sharemilker shares his mental health story. Audio