Sally Round

Very welcome rain fell on the East Coast, along with freezing temperatures in many places of the North Island. It was similiar in the South Island with cracking frosts and sunny days. Oturehua had a… Audio

Country Life meets two Wairarapa brothers forging different paths on the family farm, one makes high quality chocolate from whoa-to-go and the other is dipping his toes into the niche food industry… Audio

The green kiwifruit harvest is underway in the north where winter is making its presence felt and in the south feed is being trucked from the West Coast to bone dry farms in the east. Audio

Country Life heads to Pohatu Flea Bay on Banks Peninsula where a sheep farm is also home to a colony of White-flippered penguins. The team is also out baiting traps at a Hawke's Bay farm whose owners… Audio

Lovely rain this week in the north has not been so welcome on Bay of Plenty orchards in the midst of kiwifruit harvest and there's been sleet, snow and some wicked frosts down south. Audio

Country Life rounds up some school leavers learning about sheep and beef farming and a Waikato sharemilker shares his mental health story. Audio

Country Life is off to New Zealand's largest farm, Molesworth to check out work being done to control wilding pines. And looking on the bright cider life with a couple producing a beverage from thirty… Audio

In the North Island many east coast regions are desperately short of rain, and elsewhere ground water levels are still low, while conditions in coastal Marlborough are beyond dire, and a drought… Audio

Motueka Steiner School students have an outdoor classroom of log seats around a fire to look forward to when the school moves to its new farm campus in May. After years of planning, the final touches… Audio

Deer farming in the roar, hunter gatherers who have honed their survival skills, an entrepreneurial farming couple who are now making caps and bags from their wool clip and the Regional Wrap.

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