Photo: RNZ/Carol Stiles
This week Country Life meets three generations involved in the sport of competitive woodchopping who are also at the cutting edge of axe-making. A botanist on the West Coast wants locals to start planting edible perennials that are growing in his nursery and food forest. And a trip to the calving shed and a chat with an apple grower in Hawkes Bay give an idea of how people are getting on around the country.