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Arthur Anae - from politics to farming chooks
Arthur Anae sleeps four hours a night and wakes in plenty of time to get his free range eggs to market in person. The former politician never thought as a young boy from Samoa he would end up with two…
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Future still uncertain for apple grower post Gabrielle
Lesley Wilson lost her home and most of the apple crop just before harvest when floodwaters filled with logs and other debris swept through the orchard in Puketapu. Nearly three months on, the…
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Country Life for Friday May 5 - 2023
Chicken Champion, A Year on the Farm - Part six, Future still uncertain for apple grower post Gabrielle, Community gets behind organic garden and a wrap of the week's ag news.
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Volunteers dig in at community garden
5 May 2023Green-fingered locals in the Canterbury town of Kaiapoi love mucking in at their community garden.
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On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the country
Autumn in Manawatu has been one out of the box. As a result, farmers are taking a fair bit of feed into winter. There won't be much work being done on farms in Southland this weekend - duck shooting…
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Remembering Ken the chicken champion
Country Life turns back the clock ten years to our visit with the late Far North farmer Ken Vincent. Back in 2013, he'd been breeding chooks for 70 years.
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A year on the farm: A tractor on crutches and a Wi-Fi drenching gun
The replacement heifer calves are drenched and weighed, mating gets underway in the sheep paddocks and the tractor needs urgent repairs.
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Composting loo and eating insects because "why wouldn't you"
Melissa and Aaron Jacobson are trying to live as sustainably as possible on their small property perching ontop a hill outside of Eltham, Taranaki and plan to turn their way of life into a full-time…
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A natural ferment - it's the yeast we can do
The winemaking process starts in the middle of the vineyard at Greystone Wines in the Waipara Valley. Juicy pinot noir grapes are poured into a large vessel among the vines and exposed to wild yeasts…
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Country Life Friday April 28, 2023
Country Life is at Greystone Wines in Waipara, finds out how humanure is helping a Taranaki family's sustainability journey and chats to a polo club owner who wants to shed the game's elitist image.
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Polo school programme aims to shed elitist image
Teens from Flaxmere College are saddling up ponies and swinging mallets, learning to play the sport of polo.
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Trial vineyard has 4000 plants grown in lab
Scientists are researching how "jumping genes" can be used to develop more robust pinot noir grapes that still have an iconic New Zealand flavour. Dr Ross Bicknell and Dr Philippa Barrell from Plant…
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Country Life for Friday April 24 2023
Off-grid and farming carbon, scientists develop new variants of Pinot Noir grapes, a tractor with the X-Factor, pinnacle reached for pine nut producer and the wrap of ag news.
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Off grid and farming carbon
Former Wellington mayor Celia Wade-Brown lives in a tiny off-grid house and regenerates native forest on a former sheep and beef farm on the flanks of the Tararua mountain range. The carbon…
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A pinnacle reached for pine nut producer
Marlborough's Pinoli Premium Pine Nuts was crowned supreme champion at this year's Outstanding New Zealand Food Producer Awards. Co-founder Lee Paterson speaks to Susan Murray.
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Tractor with the X-Factor
It's 100 years since the distinctive all purpose Farmall tractor was introduced on a Texas farm aimed at replacing horses between the rows and reducing the need for a hired hand on small family farms…
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'Salad bowl' paddocks keep cows smiling
Sunflower-growing and virtual fencing are just the beginning at Rachel Short forward-looking organic dairy farm.
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Mongolian sheep shearers 'excited' about what new skills could offer back home
A three-month stint with New Zealand shearing gangs has brought life changing skills to four Mongolian herders.
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Healthy home for chooks at clifftop egg farm
When Anna Penn's flock of 3,000 hardy hens stop pecking and look up, they can watch waves crashing into the shore. They're residents at New Zealand's southernmost commercial egg farm, overlooking Te…
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Country Life for 14 April 2023
Cracking good eggs on a cliff, Mongolian scissors shearers, Sunflower paddocks on a Taranaki farm and a wrap of the week's ag news.
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For the love of wool
Patrizia Vieno is originally from Italy but now farms sheep and beef at Tinui's Rewa Rewa Station. The farm has suffered after Cyclone Gabrielle but Patrizia has not given up her aim of establishing a…
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The vertical farms of tomorrow
A French agriculture professor developing new indoor plant varieties and an Auckland man installing vertical farming tech in private homes were two of the attendees at Aotearoa's first-ever Controlled…
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Country Life for Friday April 7 2023
Country life this week heads to a sheep and beef station near Tinui which was badly damaged in Cyclone Gabrielle. But the scars on the land are not stopping the Italian owner from fulfilling plans to…
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A year on the farm: Stoked to win four good practice farming awards
Genna says the New Zealand Farm Environment Trust Biodiversity Award acknowledges the couple's focus on protecting the 200 hectares of native bush on the property.
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