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Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.

Location:

Wellington, New Zealand

Description:

Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.

Language:

English

Contact:

PO Box 489, Hamilton 07 8580729


Episodes

Rare bird returns to Wairarapa wetlands

3/22/2024
A distinctive booming sound is returning to the Wairarapa Moana. Most of the surrounding wetlands have been lost after land was drained for farming. Now, after years of rehabilitation work, more of the Australasian Bittern have been heard lately. Country Life heads out at dusk to listen for the matuku-hurepō.

Duration:00:20:57

Low-cost posts for farms and no landfill charges for vineyards

3/22/2024
A start-up in Marlborough is busy repurposing damaged vineyard posts, that were used to hold up the canopy, into sustainable posts for farm fencing.

Duration:00:12:31

A taste of the future of dairy

3/22/2024
Justin Gregory tries Daisy Lab's prototype precision-fermented products, which aim to have the texture and mouthfeel of dairy product, but are made without input from a cow.

Duration:00:09:49

Rural News Wrap

3/22/2024
A declaration of drought for Otago and Canterbury unlocking new funding support for struggling farmers.

Duration:00:04:48

Country Life for Friday 22 March 2024

3/22/2024
This week Country Life takes you to an Auckland lab making cheese without the need for a cow, and a start-up in Marlborough which is busy recycling damaged vineyard posts into low cost posts for farm fencing, to wetlands in South Wairarapa where a rare bird has returned.

Duration:00:50:38

From woolshed to bed - two sisters spin their homeware dreams

3/15/2024
How did two sisters design throws and blankets using lambs wool from the family farm? Kate Cullwick and Prue Watson share the secret to their Foxtrot Home business success and why it's essential to spread the good word about New Zealand wool.

Duration:00:17:40

A blast from the past - Mustering in Marlborough

3/15/2024
It's 1956 and in the heat of February seven shepherds, a pack train and 40 dogs drove 4000 ewes from remote Bluff Station, 90 kilometres down the back country to Kekerengu for shearing.

Duration:00:16:02

Young fruit growers climb the hort ladder

3/15/2024
Kaahu Birdling and Jordan Popata are supervisors at Thomas Brothers Orchard in Riwaka. They manage their own teams and are embracing every opportunity to learn about leadership and orchard management.

Duration:00:11:11

Country Life for Friday 15 March 2024

3/15/2024
From woolshed to bed - two sisters spin their homeware dreams, Young fruit growers climb the hort ladder, A blast from the past - Mustering in Marlborough and a wrap of the week's rural news

Duration:00:50:55

A wrap of the week's rural news

3/15/2024
More government support will be heading the way of farmers and growers in the Marlborough, Tasman and Nelson districts where an intense dry spell has been labelled a medium-scale adverse event.

Duration:00:04:33

'Give us a break!' say surfing farmers

3/8/2024
Every Thursday afternoon, Banks Peninsula farmers head to the beach in Hickory Bay and ride waves to forget about work. Farmer and surfing coach, Kristin Savage, runs the Surfing for Farmers initiative, which doubles up as an apres surf catch-up and BBQ in the farmyard.

Duration:00:20:37

"Fresh ideas, younger muscles" - taking on the family farm

3/8/2024
Sarah Maxwell switches from inseminating cows in the morning to shifting cows and sheep in the afternoon, working at the local sale yards and more besides.

Duration:00:14:13

'No turning back' - horsetrekking from Bluff to Picton

3/8/2024
Karolin van Onna and her friend had dreamt about horse trekking the length of the South Island for years - and last summer they finally did it.

Duration:00:07:07

Country Life for Friday 8 March 2024

3/8/2024
'Give us a break!' say surfing farmers, a back country dream comes true on horseback, Sarah Maxwell's farming journey and a wrap of the week's rural news.

Duration:00:50:26

A wrap of the week's rural news

3/8/2024
A chat about the top stories this week from RNZ's rural news team with Susan Murray in Kirikiriroa Hamilton.

Duration:00:06:52

Inspired farmers take action to clean waterways

3/1/2024
A catchment restoration project in the Marlborough Sounds is bringing a farming community together to tackle water quality issues and achieve wider conservation goals

Duration:00:21:58

Wool, sweat and shears - Golden Shears underway in Masterton

3/1/2024
The Golden Shears is underway in Masterton, and from early Thursday the War Memorial Stadium has been buzzing to the sound of shears, woolhandlers' brooms and the cranking of wool presses.

Duration:00:12:45

Australian winegrowers protest over plummeting returns

3/1/2024
Many wine growers in Australia's largest wine region are in crisis mode due to plummeting prices for their grapes. Chris Archer works in the Australian and New Zealand wine industries and has been following developments.

Duration:00:05:20

On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the country

3/1/2024
Kiwifruit are looking good in Hawkes Bay. Some flooded vines have died but generally recovery is better than expected. Conditions are very dry in Marlborough so many farmers are offloading stock due to concerns over feed and water levels.

Duration:00:07:03

Country Life For Friday 1 March 2024

3/1/2024
Behind the scenes at the Golden Shears, a conservation project in the Marlborough Sounds, crisis among Australia's winegrowers and On the Farm

Duration:00:48:49