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Norsewood factory Norsewear a sign of close-knit community
7:42 PM.The Norsewear factory in Norsewood is a community affair, with families, an entire volunteer fire brigade and neighbours working alongside each other over the decades. They have been celebrating 60… Read more Audio
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Dam project aims to stop flooding in Christchurch's Early Valley
7:28 PM.A series of dams to capture stormwater as it runs off the Port Hills are being constructed on farmland near Christchurch. It's the brainchild of Brent and Shirley Rawstron from Rossendale Wines, who… Read more Audio
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Reaping pink gold from South Island hydro canals - caviar harvest
7:20 PM.Mt Cook Alpine Salmon in the Mackenzie District began experimenting with caviar three years ago and is in the midst of its short harvest period. Sally Murphy caught up with the company's chief… Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
7:12 PM.A dry autumn will make for a tough winter for many farmers across the lower North Island, meanwhile it's made a great end to harvest with growers in Hawke's Bay and Marlborough busy pruning. Read more Audio
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Country Life for May 31 2024
7:07 PM.This week on Country Life, caviar being farmed in Mackenzie Country, a flood-prone vineyard in Canterbury which has created flood prevention basins to keep dry and a woollen sock company which is at… Read more Audio
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"Nature's itching to put the bush back"
7:43 PM.From a block of gorse-infected scrubland on Banks Peninsula, renowned botanist Hugh Wilson has spent half a lifetime growing Hinewai Reserve into a 1600-hectare paradise of regenerated native forest… Read more Audio
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Forging through tough times
7:28 PM.Blacksmith Jamie Hughes has a niche business crafting knives and hand-forged metalwork for chefs, farmers and tourists from his smithy in Norsewood. Tough economic times means he's feeling it from all… Read more Audio
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Shear-will and the power of traditional healing
7:20 PM.Serena Lyders has found her calling as a traditional Māori healer, giving back to rural communities and working with shearers all around the motu. Read more Audio
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Rural News Wrap
7:12 PM.A round-up of the week's agricultural news with RNZ rural news reporter Sally Murphy Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday 24 May 2024
7:08 PM.This week Country Life meets a traditional Māori healer helping shearers around the motu and things heat up in a blacksmith's forge in Norsewood. Later we explore a native forest that grew from rough… Read more Audio
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Fernhill - From DOC to dairy on the family farm
7:43 PM.Fifth generation dairy farmer Jason Christensen took a break from the family farm to try life as a DOC ranger. His experience in the world of conservation, evident on the Mt Bruce farm in the… Read more Audio
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Sowing the seed for Māori to grow food
7:27 PM.Country Life visits a food garden in Taranaki, where whānau are getting their hands in the soil and finding out how to sustain themselves from their own backyards. Read more Audio
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Vet's extraordinary escape after 9-11
7:20 PM.Neil and Sandra Chesterton and their two sons escaped Afghanistan over the mountains on horseback after 9/11. The Inglewood vet was working for a charity there. He and Sandra chat to Country Life… Read more Audio
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Country Life for 17 May 2024
7:06 PM.This week on Country Life we hear about a country vet's daring horseback escape from Afghanistan over the mountains on horseback after 9/11. We meet Pounamu Skelton who is on a mission to help Maori… Read more Audio
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The not-so-lame story of a country vet
7:40 PM.Who knows what goes on in a herd of cows as they walk to the milking shed? Plenty, according to Inglewood vet Neil Chesterton, who has made this his life's work and become a world-renowned expert on… Read more Audio
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Feeding time at the zoo
7:26 PM.Have you ever wondered where all the food for Wellington Zoo's 500 animals come from? The answer might surprise you... Gianina Schwanecke meets with the zoo's animal science manager to find out more… Read more Video, Audio
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The last day of the kumara harvest with Doug Nilsson
7:20 PM.It's the last day of the kumara harvest at Dunsmore Gardens, a farm on the outskirts of Dargaville. It's also time to celebrate after the grower lost 99 percent of his crop last season. Read more Audio
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Country Life for 10 May 2024
7:07 PM.This week Country Life is at the last day of the kumara harvest in Northland, joins a quartet of otters at Wellington Zoo for dinner to learn more about where the animals' food comes from and speaks… Read more Audio
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City couple's mushroom venture sprouts from pandemic
7:40 PM.On the rural outskirts of Taupō a young couple have started a mushroom venture far removed from their previous life in Auckland. Maggie Tweedie took a trip to a small block of land amid the green… Read more Audio
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From the Archives - D-Day for Ducks
7:23 PM.In 1973 Alan Wilkes was out with his Labrador Zara and comrades at the opening of the duck shooting season. This story from the Spectrum archives was recorded on Kohangatera, a network of lagoons… Read more Audio
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Duck shooting - a family tradition
7:20 PM.West Otago farmer, Adrian McIntyre, says the late grain harvest down his way means there are plenty of ducks around for the opening of the duck shooting season. The first weekend is a bit like… Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
7:12 PM.Many drought-declared areas have now had some rain, but farms still have very low pasture covers going into winter. There's been superb weather for the gold kiwifruit harvest in Bay of Plenty which… Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday May 3 2024
7:08 PM.This week Country Life meets a young couple who left their city life to set up a mushroom farm and heads to the maimai with a hunter at daybreak at the start of the duck shooting season half a century… Read more Audio