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Getting the jump on wallabies in the Bay of Plenty
22 Nov 2024How are efforts to control wallabies in the Bay of Plenty working?
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Young Kiwi rides high learning ancient equestrian craft
15 Nov 2024Sophia Stratford is following an ancient pathway, learning to make saddles through one of London's Worshipful Companies and she's given up a lot to get there.
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On the hunt for wallaby at 'Ground Zero'
15 Nov 2024A group of Te Arawa iwi are trying to reclaim their forest from mobs of wallabies which they say are killing the bush and gobbling up farmland.
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Healthy cows and worm-rich soil make Motupipi milkers happy
There's no looking back for a dairy farming couple who stopped adding imported feed and synthetic fertilisers to their paddocks.
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In the pink - keeping peonies all in the family
8 Nov 2024Flower picking and packing for export is in full swing at Prebbleton Peonies. Most of the large, fragrant flowers are flown daily to Japan, the US and Europe.
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All creatures great and small: The zoo hospital helping native wildlife
8 Nov 2024Country Life goes inside Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kōhanga, where they help rehabilitate native birds ready for release back into the wild.
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Nitrogen: Friend or foe?
8 Nov 2024Scientists look at the details underpinning nitrogen and its use in agriculture and horticulture and its impacts on the environment
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Stockfeed from tough bugs 'good for planet and people'
In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of greenhouse gases captured from geothermal power stations.
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The gore and the glory of a rural vet round
1 Nov 2024Kaipara-based Scottish vet Rory Dean has written a book based on his experiences as a rural vet in the UK and New Zealand.
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No looking back for farmer who switched to regenerative agriculture
25 Oct 2024John Legg's regenerative farming journey has been a big learning curve but the dairy farmer says the gains have been steady.
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Country Life: The truth about flower farming
Kate Briant, of The Rural Florist, juggles a busy young family with her burgeoning flower growing business.
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Getting cosy and creative under canvas
A riverside tent becomes a classroom for the day for children taking part in the Ruamāhanga Farm Foundation project, connecting the awa with the local community.
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Girls who Grow: The next generation of land girls
The new education programme helping empower the next generation of wāhine in agriculture recently launched across the wider Wellington and Horowhenua region targeting girls from urban backgrounds.
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Free venison mince feeds people in need
Hunters for Hope's Steve Hill and Adam Kreisel turn surplus venison from hunters and farmers into high-protein food parcels for low income families.
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Digging up skills to grow food
Agriculture classes at school sometimes get a bad rap, but the Grow Hub is turning that around.
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Country Life: Whale watching while picking winter-grown greens
Ocean views makes harvesting of iceberg lettuce and broccoli a lot more pleasant for Ben Scott and his staff at Claverley Farm in North Canterbury.
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Country Life: Huntaway pup still a rookie on farm
We check back in with Miley the Huntaway pup and her trainer Chris Shaw to see her progress over the last few months.
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Off the beaten track, tourism sustains two generations of sheep farmers
Dome glamping, farm tours and jetting up the Hurunui River supplements income and highlights cultural heritage at a traditional sheep farm.
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Country Life: Discovering a sweet spot for grapevines in the Bay of Islands
Old grape vines clambering over a tumbledown shed were the start of Jake Dromgool's wine-growing venture. He's grown a dizzying array of varieties on the volcanic soils outside Kerikeri.
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Reducing splash-back and soaking up the nasties from dairy cows' pee
An "eye-opening" farm trial could help clean up New Zealand's rivers and streams.
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From selling shoes in China to a microgreens farm in rural NZ
Yu Kali and Yu Jiang's microgreens venture is sprouting almost as fast as the tiny veggies themselves.
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Young hands help recreate ancient forest
Ancient podocarp forest has become a classroom for schoolchildren taking part in a project to link land, river and community
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A bird on the farm worth two in the bush?
How do you stop birds colliding with New York's skyscrapers and how can New Zealand farmers benefit from birds and other wildlife? These are just some of the questions Dr Sara Kross has been trying to…
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Farmer retires land he says 'shouldn't ever have animals on it'
"I've been farming on my own account for 52 years and cut down a fair share of trees, so now is my time to leave this place better than we found it," Chris Bolderston told Country Life.
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