Country Life

We chat to a rural vet, visit a farm where horticulture is helping addicts recover and find out about a novel plan to capture greenhouse gases for feeding farm animals.

Duration:00:50:44

Capturing greenhouse gases for farm feed

In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations.

Duration:00:12:19

From the Archive: Growing plants helps addicts' recovery

Country Life visited Nova Trust's farm near Christchurch where the charity is helping rehabilitate addicts through horticulture.

Duration:00:23:22

Rory Dean - a rural vet inspired to write

Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and now New Zealand.

Duration:00:06:31

On The Farm for 1 November 2024

Kiwifruit is starting to bloom in Bay of Plenty, dairy farmers up and down the country are busy breeding the next season's calves, while North Canterbury farms have welcomed some recent rain to break the dry.

Duration:00:06:43

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 25 October 2024

We catch up with a dairy farmer embracing regenerative farming, a flower farmer juggling a young family and visit a farm classroom connecting schoolchildren to the environment.

Duration:00:50:55

Getting cosy and creative under canvas

Schoolchildren are learning in a bell tent on a riverside farm in South Wairarapa. They're taking part in a project connecting the community to the river and moana.

Duration:00:17:31

The not so glamorous life of flower farming

Kate Briant, of The Rural Florist, on how growing flowers helps her juggle a busy young family while keeping her close to her roots in horticulture.

Duration:00:12:23

Healthy cows and soils put spring in farmers step

The last time Country Life visited John Legg's Leeston dairy farm, he was adopting regenerative practices across the property. We catch up with him again five years later.

Duration:00:13:20

Rural News Wrap for 25 October 2024

A round-up of the week's agricultural news.

Duration:00:05:45

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 18 October 2024

We meet a keen gardener in the Far North, hop in the sheepyards to learn about dagging and talk emissions with a sheep and beef farmer in Wairoa. And later we take a look back in the archives with a rural postman on his rounds.

Duration:00:49:07

From the Archive: A day in the life of a rural postie

In a trip to the archives we join rural delivery man Doug Wilson on his 100-kilometre daily run around the big stations around Taihape, from a feature produced in 1985 by the team from long-running RNZ show Spectrum.

Duration:00:19:22

Shifting times for sheep in Wairoa

A changing climate and shifting land use has prompted Wairoa sheep and beef farmer Dave Read to develop a new breed of low-input sheep.

Duration:00:09:17

Farming 101: What's a dag?

In this first episode of Farming 101, we check in with sheep grazier Peter Crook to find out about dagging.

Duration:00:06:40

A garden in Moerewa

If you're heading to the Far North via State Highway 1, you might spy Daphne Andrell busy at work in her garden.

Duration:00:04:36

Rural News Wrap for 18 October 2024

A round-up of the week's agricultural news.

Duration:00:07:18

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 11 October 2024

We join Girls Who Grow helping bridge the urban-rural divide for young women and meet two Canterbury hunters supplying local food banks with wild venison mince.

Duration:00:49:09

The next generation of land girls

Girls who Grow: The new education programme helping empower the next generation of wāhine in agriculture.

Duration:00:20:15

Hunters supply foodbanks with tonnes of wild venison mince

Hunters for Hope's Steve Hill and Adam Kreisel turn surplus venison from hunters and farmers into high-protein food parcels for low-income families.

Duration:00:20:20

Rural News Wrap for 11 October 2024