13 February 2012 - 12:19 am NZ time
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It's warmed up in the North Island and is wet in parts of the South Island that don't really need it. (4′33″)
Resident Vet Caroline Hamilton talks about caring for just born lambs: warm baths, warm colostrum and helping slow-to-lamb ewes,glucose supplements and mothering on twins. (7′16″)
Neroli Nolan is a fourth generation West Coaster and has come home to run Collyer House, a beachside Bed and amp; Breakfast in Okuru near Haast. (7′26″)
Antonia Radon starts her farming day at 5am. She and her husband Mike have set up a paua farm, they also run cattle and home school their three children. Commercial paua diver David Baker buys juvenile paua from the Radons to put back into the wild. (31′43″)
(Top) Jacob, Sarah and Antonia Radon with their pet chickens. (Bottom) Neroli Nolan in front of Collyer House near Haast.


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Carol Stiles
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Susan Murray
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Cosmo Kentish-Barnes

Duncan Smith
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