Country Life

This week Country Life chats to a young woman learning the ancient craft of saddlery, meets a dairy farming couple who no longer use imported feed and synthetic fertilisers and heads out on a hunt for wallabies in the Bay of Plenty.

Duration:00:49:29

On the hunt for wallaby at "Ground Zero"

Iwi are trying to reclaim their forest from mobs of wallabies which they say are killing the bush and gobbling up pasture around Rotorua. Country Life heads out on a wallaby hunt.

Duration:00:18:34

Healthy cows and worm-rich soil make Motupipi milkers happy

There's no looking back for a Golden Bay dairy farming couple who eliminated imported feed and synthetic fertilisers from their paddocks.

Duration:00:14:19

Young kiwi rides high learning the craft of saddlery

Young equestrian Sophia Stratford has gone to the other side of the world to learn the craft of saddle, harness and bridle making at prestigious Capel Manor College in London and is among its top students.

Duration:00:07:00

Rural News Wrap for 15 November 2024

A wrap of news from the rural sector for the week ending 15 November 2024

Duration:00:07:30

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 8 November 2024

This week we chat to a veterinarian at Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kōhanga, we visit a peony farm in full bloom, and we hear from scientists about the pros and cons of nitrogen.

Duration:00:49:59

All creatures great and small: The zoo hospital helping native wildlife

We take you inside Wellington Zoo's animal hospital, Te Kōhanga, where they help rehabilitate native birds ready to be released back into the wild.

Duration:00:17:44

Nitrogen: Friend or Foe?

Scientists look at the details underpinning nitrogen and its use in agriculture, horticulture and its impacts on the environment.

Duration:00:14:58

Business is blooming at family focused peony farm

Flower picking and packing for export is in full swing at Prebbleton Peonies near Christchurch.

Duration:00:07:23

Rural News Wrap for 8 November 2024

A round-up of the week's agricultural news.

Duration:00:08:17

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 1 November 2024

We chat to a rural vet, visit a farm where horticulture is helping addicts recover and find out about a novel plan to capture greenhouse gases for feeding farm animals.

Duration:00:50:44

Capturing greenhouse gases for farm feed

In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations.

Duration:00:12:19

From the Archive: Growing plants helps addicts' recovery

Country Life visited Nova Trust's farm near Christchurch where the charity is helping rehabilitate addicts through horticulture.

Duration:00:23:22

Rory Dean - a rural vet inspired to write

Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and now New Zealand.

Duration:00:06:31

On The Farm for 1 November 2024

Kiwifruit is starting to bloom in Bay of Plenty, dairy farmers up and down the country are busy breeding the next season's calves, while North Canterbury farms have welcomed some recent rain to break the dry.

Duration:00:06:43

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 25 October 2024

We catch up with a dairy farmer embracing regenerative farming, a flower farmer juggling a young family and visit a farm classroom connecting schoolchildren to the environment.

Duration:00:50:55

Getting cosy and creative under canvas

Schoolchildren are learning in a bell tent on a riverside farm in South Wairarapa. They're taking part in a project connecting the community to the river and moana.

Duration:00:17:31

The not so glamorous life of flower farming

Kate Briant, of The Rural Florist, on how growing flowers helps her juggle a busy young family while keeping her close to her roots in horticulture.

Duration:00:12:23

Healthy cows and soils put spring in farmers step

The last time Country Life visited John Legg's Leeston dairy farm, he was adopting regenerative practices across the property. We catch up with him again five years later.

Duration:00:13:20

Rural News Wrap for 25 October 2024