Country Life for Friday 9 September 2016

9:36 PM.Dave Te Kapa's shearing gang is pre-lamb shearing 1000 ewes a day at Snowdon Station in the Canterbury high country. Snowdon's owners, Roy Veronese and Annabel Tripp operate a Perendale stud alongside… Read more Audio, Gallery

9:22 PM.Setting up an artisan bake house on a small rural property with a babbling brook has been a dream of Maurice Lees' for a decade or more. It's been a reality for just under two years. He's making… Read more Audio

9:14 PM.Huw Evans logs into his beehives in Italy and the UK from where ever he is in the world. He can tell whether the bees have made honey, whether the queen's laying eggs or whether someone's pushed the… Read more Audio

9:05 PM.Lamb deaths are expected following this week's cold snap which has brought snow and bitterly cold conditions to North and South Island hill country. Read more Audio