Country Life for Friday 14 July 2017

9:35 PM.Pinoli Premium Pine Nuts have planted about 550,000 European stone pine trees on 550 hectares in Marlborough. Pinoli is the only commercial pine nut producer in the southern hemisphere. Read more Audio

9:16 PM.Lance and Makereta Roper's 62-hectare property near Lincoln produces 500 to 800 tonnes of red peeled onions a year, as well as growing pumpkins, peas and beans. The family business employs eight… Read more Audio

9:23 PM.Food fads come and go. At present a procession of so-called 'super foods' are dangled in front of us, promising, if not eternal life , then eternal "wellness". We have kale, micro greens, coconut… Read more Audio

9:06 PM.A summer with lower sunshine hours, combining with a late harvest when birds damage fruit, is making for very poor olive oil volumes this year. Some growers are over 50% down. Olive oil producers from… Read more Audio

9:10 PM.Areas of Manawatu that never see snow received up to 15 centimetres on Thursday, Rotorua city had snow flurries, and outlying areas like Mamaku and Rerewhikaaitu had heavy snow on the ground.  Flood… Read more Audio

9:03 PM. 

Pining for Nuts, Red Onion Royalty, A Memoir on Kohlrabi, Just a Drop and the Regional Wrap.

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