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Country Life
The Country Life team take you all over the motu to hear the extraordinary stories of every day rural New Zealand.
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566 episodis
FULL SHOW: Country Life for 4 September 2026
This week Country Life is food foraging around Christchurch, picking flowers for a floral fundraiser and finding out what it takes to become a top you...
From red zone to restaurant
Chef Adam Harrison forages produce around Christchurch for his Michelin-starred kitchen.
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Tomorrow's vineyard leaders put to the test
New Zealand's top young viticulturists put their technical knowledge, practical skills and leadership abilities to the test in the Young Viticulturist...
Green fingers, golden flowers
"Every corner of this farm she's touched something, planted something," says Pattie O'Boyle of the legacy left behind by Marangai's first farming fami...
Rural news wrap for 4 September 2026
A wrap of news from RNZ's rural news desk
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 28 August 2026
This week Country Life is on a high tech beef farm and visits a training centre teaching how to handle rural health emergencies.
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Techno grazing on an intergenerational family farm in Taranaki
Introducing virtual fencing and other technology has helped the Hardwick-Smith family double the profitability of some parts of their sheep and beef h...
Training the future of rural emergency care
The Rural Health Academic Centre, Ashburton, teaches young doctors and nurses how to handle rural emergencies.
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Farming 101 - Triple Trouble?
With lambing well underway, sheep grazier Peter Crook shares some down-to-earth advice on how to deal with triplet lambs.
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The Bird Nurse
Injured feathered patients find a safe and restful spot to recuperate in Averil Osborne's ward.
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On the Farm for 28 August 2026
A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 21 August 2026
This week Country Life is on farms looking for meteorites, and newborn calves, visits a herd home for cows and takes you into the world of a station c...
Great ball of fire, tiny rocks and a very big paddock
Searching for a bit of space debris in a farm paddock is like looking for a needle in a haystack, except you're not quite sure where the haystack is....
Herd home: How a Taranaki dairy farm lifted its milk solids by 30,000 kilograms
Spending an extra half a million dollars building a herd home for his cows means Paul Kuriger can milk for an extra month while helping protect the ma...
From the Archives: It's calving time
Back in 2021 producer Sally Round got up before the birds to meet Carterton dairy farmer Jodie James and his team to find out what happens over calvin...
What's for Smoko with Philippa Cameron
Our Changing World's Claire Concannon talks to station cook Philippa Cameron.
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Rural News Wrap for 21 August 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 14 August 2026
Country Life visits a centre helping injured birds of prey return to the wild and an insect farm breeding beneficial bugs.
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Raptor rescues in Timaru
The NZ Raptor Trust has spent the last decade helping birds of prey recover from road accidents and return to the wild.
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A force to be reckoned with
Bioforce grows beneficial insects, sending them around the country to gardeners and orchardists, providing a fighting force to beat back pests in tunn...
Instagram-able rural scene causing headache for locals
Dairy farmer Amanda Jordan lives in view of one of Aotearoa's most beautiful sights, but she says visitors are playing with lives snapping photos of M...
Rural News Wrap for 14 August 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 7 August 2026
This week Country Life delves into the world of rare breeds, meets a farmer foraging seed for her native trees and heads to an olive grove on the Kapi...
From hill country to olive country
After decades farming sheep and beef on rugged hill country, Diana and Grant Crosse made an unlikely career change, swapping livestock for olive trees...
The farmer with the seed fridge
Farmer Sandra Campbell shows us the native trees she's grown from foraged seed, and how they're making her farm a "nicer place to be."
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Rare breeds at Avonstour Heritage Farm
John Earney finds the value in rare, sometimes almost forgotten breeds of animal. The president of the Rare Breeds Conservation Society of New Zealand...
Rural News Wrap for 7 August 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 31 July 2026
This week Country Life digs into the arable world, meets the maker of the world's "supreme champion cheese" and learns about growing plants hydroponic...
Hydroponics in Horowhenua: Growing with water
Husband and wife duo Tony and Lisa Dale-Low traded corporate life in the city for growing fresh herbs and salad greens.
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A world champion from a little town called Eltham
In the heart of Taranaki dairy country, a large silver trophy has arrived from Europe.
The team at Lactalis' Bridge Street plant in Eltham are...
The state of the arable industry - and it's future
Scott Champion shares how the Foundation for Arable Research is working to rebuild confidence and stability in the cropping sector.
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On the Farm for 31 July 2026
A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around the country.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 24 July 2026
This week Country life talks to an American poultry farmer about her bird flu experience, visits a llama farmer and meets a family who've been farming...
Celery, butterflies and Travis the goat
For 120 years, the Franklin family has farmed celery through changing markets, wild weather and six generations of family life. Alongside the celery f...
Addicted to yarn: Llama herd follows love of fibre
It was the 1990s when many farms were looking to diversify. 'Why not llamas?', thought Southland spinner and farmer Janette Buckingham.
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What New Zealand can learn from a farmer who lived through H5N1
What happens when bird flu arrives on your farm? Delaware poultry farmer and educator Georgie Cartanza shares her first hand experience of an H5N1 out...
Rural News Wrap for 24 July 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.
You can find more from RNZ's rural news team, here.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 17 July 2026
This week on Country life, the team chat to Irish farmer and author John Connell and heads to East Timor to see how money earnt in New Zealand orchard...
A Ticket to a Better Life: Timor-Leste enters New Zealand's RSE programme
Thousands of Timorese have applied to join New Zealand's seasonal worker scheme, which opened to Timor Leste for the first time in 2026. Seven months...
John Connell: Life lessons from those who work on the land
Irish writer and farmer John Connell latest book is The Wisdom of Farmers. He shares some of the pearls of wisdom he has learnt from a decade of farmi...