Country Life for Friday 5 May 2023

7:07 PM.Green-fingered locals in the Canterbury town of Kaiapoi love mucking in at their community garden. Read more Audio

7:07 PM.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. Read more Audio

7:12 PM.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… Read more Audio

7:20 PM.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… Read more Audio

7:27 PM.The replacement heifer calves are drenched and weighed, mating gets underway in the sheep paddocks and the tractor needs urgent repairs. Read more Audio

7:36 PM.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. Read more Audio