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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
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Country Life for 21 July 2023
7:06 PM.This week Country Life meets the O'Malleys who have realised their dream of farm ownership after saving for ten years. Also, ag training without a classroom and a forester making the most of his 30… Read more Audio
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Farming and surfing a good balance for young Ag leader
7:22 PM.As well as managing 4 farms and 35 staff, Jack Raharuhi is a passionate surfer who finds his mindfulness on the water. Country Life visits him at Pāmu's Cape Foulwind farming complex near Westport. Read more Audio
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'A dream from growing up' - Bay of Plenty oyster farm owner
9:15 AM.Under new ownership Tio Ōhiwa, or Ōhiwa Oyster Farm as it was formally known, is bringing fresh oysters and opportunity to locals' plates. Read more Audio
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Ngā kura huna - on a path to hidden treasure at Opepe
7:35 PM.Push your way through a tangle of bush only kilometres from the Napier-Taupō highway and you are on an ancient pa site. Tangata whenua sheltered here hundreds of years ago but this site is known to… Read more Video, 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 14 July 2023
7:07 PM.Oyster farm, Jack Raharuhi, Opepe and the Ag news roundup Read more Audio
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Bulls for sale after Gabrielle - celebrating the wins
7:35 PM.Kokopuru Station in northern Hawke's Bay had slips and sinkholes a-plenty but the Hallmark Angus cattle stud managed to rebuild the farm ahead of their annual bull sale. Read more Audio
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Three generations on the same rural route
7:23 PM.Lee Pryor has been delivering post along the Whakatāne coastline for 25 years, but he is not the first in his whānau and now his wife has even joined the ranks. Read more Audio
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A quarter-acre food paradise in Gisborne
7:15 PM.Adrian Sutherland has more than a hundred fruit trees on his slice of suburban Gisborne and plenty of veges besides. 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 7 July 2023
7:07 PM.This week Country Life heads to a bull sale in northern Hawkes Bay where slips and sinkholes from this year's cyclones have not held back the stud owners from their traditional celebrations and… Read more Audio
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A green fingered grower with tunnel vision
5:15 PM.Adrian Merhten's hydroponic journey began 20 years ago after being inspired by a local vegetable grower. He was a baker then, but now he's known in Hokitika as "The Lettuce Man". Read more Audio
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Hunting for Tai Rāwhiti - "I don't see deer, I see a food bag"
7:35 PM.A team of hunters heads out every five weeks to a hill country farm to harvest deer meat for Tai Rawhiti's food banks which have been under pressure after devastating weather hit the region this year… Read more Video, Audio
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Finding joy in retirement: Knocking toys into shape
7:23 PM.Knocker Harris started making wooden toys for his grandchilden - 12 years later he can't stop. Read more Audio
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
7:07 PM.Wet conditions across much of the North Island are causing headaches and heartbreak for some, while the South Island is recording boomer seasons in parts, thanks to the wet. Kiwifruit harvest has been… Read more Audio
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Country Life for Friday June 30 2023
7:07 PM.Lettuce man, Knocker the toy man, deer hunting, monthly wrap of conditions on farm. Read more Audio
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Chef swaps cooking good food for The Good Farm
11:35 AM.The Good Farm – a raw milk producer and market garden in the Bay of Plenty – is a real family affair. Former chef Loren Gibbs tells us about trading in the heat of the kitchen for digging in the dirt… Read more Audio
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New direction for traditional farm
7:20 PM.With fields of crops, shimmering solar panels and several hundred Wagyu beef cattle, young farmer Ryan Cockburn is changing the landscape on his grandparents' coastal property. Read more Audio
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Treat youself like you would a broken tractor, says Rural Support Trust
7:14 PM.Taranaki branch chair Mike Green says we've not weathered the storm yet, but with support, we can. 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