Sally Round

A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector. Audio

This week Country Life learns more about a woman trialling growing rice at her home in Nelson, we check in with dog trainer Chris and his young star Miley one last time and we take a look back through… Audio

Kaipara farmer Stephen Newman is intent on improving soils and pasture in low cost, natural ways. He's now helping others too and hopes these methods will become even more useful as the country… Audio

This week Country Life takes a look at efforts to save soil on farms at both ends of the country and takes you to taste some traditional kai in the Bay of Plenty. Audio

It's a busy time of year for Stacey Faith, calving 300-plus cows, rearing their calves and keeping the Faith Farm's roadside milk dispensing outlet going, providing locals with milk fresh from the… Audio

A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand. Audio

With rural health care under the spotlight, our guest this week sheds some light on working in a small country hospital. Sophia Zohrab is among 12 med students on Auckland University's rural medicine… Audio

This week Country Life takes you to a dairy farm with a difference, supplying milk direct to the customer, and the team checks in at a lab where work is underway to stop a tiny pest munching through… Audio

A honey shed on a hill is buzzing to the sound of honey flowing into jars as the bees take a hard-earned rest from honey making. Country Life meets Shayne and Elizabeth Mackenzie whose organic honey… Audio

This week Country Life takes you to a farm grazing pigs and cattle beneath solar panels and meets organic honey producers Shayne and Elizabeth Mackenzie. Audio

A wrap from RNZ's rural news desk. Audio

A wrap from RNZ's rural news desk. Audio

This week on Country Life Cosmo Kentish-Barnes is in his wet weather gear in Tasman to meet with rural residents, still battered and bruised from the first flood and staring down the barrel of another… Audio

Food scraps from retirement villages and schools are heping to nourish a banana orchard and other farms via the City to Farm project, which aims to keep organic waste out of landfill and help curb… Audio

A wrap from RNZ's rural news desk. Audio

This week Country Life follows the trail of food scraps from schools to farms with the City to Farm project north of Auckland and meets two young farming-focused youngsters at the top of their game. Audio

Crooked Vege's pay-what-you-can model may have been a radical idea two years ago but its vege box plan is working, with those who can't afford to pay subsidised by those who can. The small farm has… Audio

A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand. Audio

This week Country Life returns to a vegetable farm to see whether it's radical plan to feed the community is working and looks at plans for plastic waste on farm... And the team meet an animal… Audio

News that government this month said is looking to support a market system to help fund the huge cost of restoring nature could be music to the ears of farmers and iwi wanting to do their bit for… Audio