Navigation for Station navigation
Country Life
Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.
Friday 7pm and Saturday 7am
Navigation for Country Life
Latest audio
-
Micron Matters
19 Apr 2019South Otago farmer Stephen Jack is working on a sheep breeding project that grows meat, but also has finer wool which can be sold for profit. He has developed a 23 to 25 micron dual purpose animal… Read more Audio
-
The Colville Project
The remote, rural Colville community is digging deep trying to fund a new wellbeing and education centre for its 700 strong population. The purpose-built complex would house medical and social… Read more Audio
-
Regional Wrap
It's been a marvellous week for harvesting kiwifruit in Bay of Plenty. On Marlborough hill farms calf weaning has finished and ewes are on a fast rotation while the ram is out. Read more Audio
-
Full Episode for Friday April 19 2019
Fruit, Flowers and Fragrances, The Colville Project, Micron Matters and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio
-
Mack MacIntosh has high hopes for hemp
Mack was the first person to be granted a license to grow industrial hemp (iHemp) in New Zealand and is currently developing eight hemp cultivars on his farm in the Catlins. Read more Audio
-
Sussing out Soils
These days most regional councils are putting rules in place around what can and can't be done on the land and what level of nutrient run-off is allowable. To make changes and informed choices… Read more Audio
-
Confidence Crisis in Dairying
A Waikato farmer and former farming leader Malcolm Lumsden says 50 percent of the dairy farmers in his district want to leave the industry. He says paperwork, a fear of prosecution and a back-lash… Read more Audio
-
Regional Wrap
Hawkes' Bays grape harvest is 80 to 90 percent through. Horowhenua's had good grass growth but temperatures have taken a dive. Some rain and cooler temperatures this week in Canterbury have seen… Read more Audio
-
Harvesting Tamarillos
Chairman of the Tamarillo Growers association, Robert Morris. Read more Audio
-
Full Episode for Friday April 12 2019
High Hopes for Hemp, Sussing out Soils, Confidence Crisis in Dairying, Harvesting Tamarillos and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio
-
Under FiveHundy: Nuhaka
5 Apr 2019The tiny northern Hawkes Bay settlement of Nuhaka has chess champions, a large Latter-day Saints congregation and a large apple & kiwifruit orchard that looks like it will need more than 100 seasonal… Read more Audio, Gallery
-
Turning Wool into Food
Santanu Deb-Choudhury and his team at AgResearch have found that proteins from sheep wool fibre can help improve the digestive health of cats. The proteins, extracted from cross-bred wool are then… Read more Audio
Country Life
Country Life takes you down country roads to meet ordinary people achieving their dreams. We live in a beautiful country and we'd love to show it. Have you got a great photo? Drop us an email below.
Produced by: Sally Round, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes and Gianina Schwanecke.
Friday 7pm and Saturday 7am
Follow this podcast.
- Email: country@rnz.co.nz
- RNZ Country on X
- Ideas: We love to hear your ideas on stories we should be covering
- Take Part: Have you got a great photo? We would love to feature the beauty of our heartland email country@rnz.co.nz