Country Life

Horse Power, Training Trees, Wine Making the Natural Way, Living with Mycoplasma Bovis and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

The Human v Horse event is a marathon over steep hill country with a twist - it's a race between two legs and four. Read more Audio, Gallery

Julie Brownlee's Neudorf Valley sheep milking operation supplies milk to Thorvald, a company that produces sheep's milk cheese and yoghurt in a factory right next to Julie's milking shed. Read more Audio

Horowhenua asparagus grower Geoff Lewis is setting up tunnel houses to grow strawberries. It's part of his plan to provide year-round work for his seasonal workers. Read more Audio

It’s a baptism of fire for new Southland  Fed Farmers Chairman Geoffrey Young with the M. bovis outbreak, a swede seed mix up and debate over Environment Southland's revised water and land plan. Read more Audio

It is getting wet underfoot in Taranaki so farmers feel they have had enough rain. Rams in Marlborough have completed their work on hill country farms and sheep scanning is underway. Read more Audio

Human V Horse, Ewe Milk Me, Geoffrey Young from Federated Farmers , Horowhenua asparagus grower Geoff Lewis and the Regional Wrap. Read more Audio

Young backpackers on bus tours are making a tangible difference in the struggling Bay of Plenty town of Murupara. Local tour operator Nadine Toe Toe's motto is 'Change a town through tourism'. Read more Audio, Gallery

Laura Douglas has set up a tourism venture in Kingston that gives visitors to Queenstown the chance to experience a taste of the country-side. Read more Audio

Blueberries, kiwiberries, boysenberries, loganberries... well, there might soon be another one to add to the mix – the snowberry. Trials are underway to see if there's potential for a commercial… Read more Audio

Warm weather has blessed the North Island this week, and while the South Island's generally been lovely too, the temperatures are dipping quickly down south. Read more Audio

Gold kiwifruit growers are making very  good money but grower David Jensen says a shortage of labour to harvest fruit won't be solved by simply increasing pay rates. Read more Audio