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Farmers help to restore one of New Zealand's most polluted estuaries
7:21 PM.Leah Tebbutt heads to Bay of Plenty to find out how farmers are restoring the health of one of New Zealand's most polluted estuaries. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 18 August 2023
7:06 PM.A Year on the Farm with Alistair and Genna Bird, farmer efforts to restore the Waihi estuary and a visit to a small country music museum in Hector on the West Coast. Read more Audio
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Maramataka another layer of diversity to a Bay of Plenty farm
10:23 AM.Mohi Beckham is helping to turn a tired and depleted land into a fertile and productive farm. But the benefits extend to more than just the land. Read more Audio
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Gin distillery fizzes with plans for home-grown juniper
7:33 PM.Kapiti distillers harvest kawakawa from their historic Wairarapa farm to make award-winning gin. They're also trialling growing juniper berries and planting more natives. Novel pest traps, a bottle… Read more Audio
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Supreme bacon brings home supreme prize for Hawke's Bay butcher
7:19 PM.Wild Game owners Jordan and Varnnah Hamilton-Bicknell were named Supreme Winner in both the bacon and the ham categories of the 100% New Zealand Bacon & Ham Awards. Read more Audio
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Rural news wrap
7:12 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's rural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 11 August 2023
7:07 PM.This week Country Life is in the bush picking kawakawa destined for artisan gin, a Bay of Plenty farmer recounts his story improving the land and his own mental health and - with the lambing season… Read more Audio
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Lambing's taking off on end of runway farm
9:07 AM.The paddocks on James Thompson's city limits sheep farm are starting to look like the arrivals lounge at Christchurch Airport during the school holidays. Read more Audio
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A conversation in the cookhouse
10:17 AM.Country Life talks to Jen Chrisp who cooks for the shepherds at Puketoro Station. She's carrying on the cookhouse tradition of New Zealand's extensive and remote back country farms. Read more Audio
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How one woman's 'childhood dream' led her to a Kiwi dairy farm
5:23 PM.Chihiro Hanyuda moved to New Zealand seven years ago...now she is an award winning dairy farmer. Read more Audio
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Half price natives - and planted for free
7:33 PM.Landowners in Karamea aren't beating around the bush when it comes to riparian planting. They're making the most of a local not-for-profit nursery and planting service that grows and eco-sources… Read more Audio
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A tree for every woman
7:15 PM.Kauri Forno runs a tree nursery in Gisborne which has been donating trees around Te Tai Rāwhiti for the past three decades. The Women's Native Tree Project Trust started with the aim of planting a… Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the Country
7:07 PM.A lot of lambs hit the ground during the recent cold snap and losses are a growing concern in Te Tai Tarawhiti while in Otago there's more feed sitting around than usual so farmers are set up pretty… Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday August 4 2023
7:07 PM.Kauri Forno, Jen Chrisp, Clean Stream Nursery, Japanese farmer and conditions wrap. Read more Audio
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Crafting honey and art from bees
7:30 PM.Cate and Mike King of Pauariki Honey lost a quarter of their hives after Cyclone Gabrielle hit Tairāwhiti in February. They also faced a poor season of manuka flowering. But the raw beauty of the… Read more Audio
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"Bring the cash in a suitcase and the farm's yours!"
7:22 PM.Karamea dairy farmer Peter Langford says he and his wife Debbie are ready to hang up their gumboots. With none of their four children keen on taking over the farm, it's now up for sale - lock, stock… Read more Audio
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Wild goats in hunters' sights in crack down on destructive population
7:18 PM.Two organisations have teamed up to encourage hunters to cull high-density goat populations across the country with prizes up for grabs. Read more Audio
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Pig hunting escapades of a woman in pink
7:15 PM.Kim Swan, joins Country Life this week for a chat about her latest book and what it takes to be a woman on tough terrain. Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Sally Murphy, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 28 July 2023
7:06 PM.This week Country Life meets a couple who are still inspired by the rugged beauty of Tairāwhiti to produce honey and art from their bees despite having lost many of their hives to Cyclone Gabrielle… Read more Audio
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The Whanganui forest which never stopped growing opportunity
11:22 AM.Richard Thompson planted Papaiti forest with alternative species 30 years ago. He never dreamt at the time he would become a timber merchant with a joinery workshop and retail shed. Read more Audio
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Hard work makes dreams come true
7:30 PM.Christopher and Siobhan O'Malley stand in a paddock with smiles that could melt one of the nearby West Coast glaciers. The couple have finally achieved their long-term goal of farm ownership and now… Read more Audio
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Agricademy - reinventing agricultural training in NZ
7:15 PM.Agricademy doesn't have classrooms or a campus, instead students can dip in and out of on-line videos, filmed with experts in the dairy or wool shed. Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:07 PM.RNZ's rural news reporter, Leah Tebbutt, takes a look at the week's agricultural news. Read more Audio