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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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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 12 June 2026
This week Country Life heads to a basketball game to celebrate rural migrants, checks out the new tech at Fieldays and follows the journey of urban fo...
From the Archives: City to Farm
Food scraps from retirement villages and schools are heping to nourish a banana orchard and other farms via the City to Farm project, which aims to ke...
Migrants give back to their communities
Anisha learns how the rural Filipino migrant community has grown in the last 20 years - and watches some basketball.
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Galvbike: E-bike makers riding agritech wave at Fieldays
Anthony Clyde, considered the godfather of e-bikes in New Zealand, has created a new electric farmbike that's proving a hit at Fieldays, the Galvbike....
Rural News Wrap for 12 June 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.
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Country Life's Garden Diaries: From lawn to leafy greens
Follow along over the next few months as Gianina Schwanecke turns her backyard into a food garden in the name of resiliency.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 5 June 2026
Country Life digs into the art of growing your own food and dips into the archives to to visit one of the country's longest running alternative commun...
From the Archives - A visit to Rainbow Valley
Rainbow Valley in Golden Bay is one of New Zealand's longest running alternative communities. Country Life paid the community a visit last year as it...
From the Philippines to Southland
Guillermo and Christina Tolentino share the joys and challenges of migrating to rural New Zealand.
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Rural News Wrap for 5 June 2026
A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 29 May 2026
This week Country Life is at a training centre for wild Kaimanawa horses, and checks out the oyster harvest in Bluff.
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Oysters every way
Anisha heads to Bluff to understand the state of the wild oyster fishery.
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Teaching trust to the Kaimanawas
Kelly Wilson trains Kaimanawa wild horses at the sanctuary she's built on just over 18 hectares, a few minutes out of Taupō. Jimmy Ellingham paid her...
Northland pests no match for backyard trap-maker
Steve Allan's been trapping and making traps for nearly 50 years. His simple, strong kill traps made in his home factory in Northland have eradicated...
On the Farm for 29 May 2026
A round up of conditions on farms and orchards around the country
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 22 May 2026
This week Country Life follows a farrier as he fits a horse with new shoes, compares different milks and their nutritional benefits, and visit's an ac...
A little bit country, a little bit Middle Earth
William Kircher, known for his role as Bifur the dwarf in The Hobbit trilogy, has moved to the country. When not performing overseas, he and jazz sing...
Hoofin' it in Central Otago: Walking a mile in a farrier's shoes
From working with 2000 degrees Celsius heat to moving a half tonne animal, being a farrier is no easy job, as Country Life found out.
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Rural News Wrap for 22 May 2026
A round-up of the week's rural news.
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Milking it: Which milk is best?
Country Life speaks to a Massey University professor who specialises in nutrition and food chemistry about different types of milk - their pros and co...
FULL SHOW: Country Life for 15 May 2026
Ever wondered how farmed salmon produce the next generation? Anisha tours Akaroa King Salmon's hatchery in Canterbury, and an award-winning Māori trus...
Spawning day on a salmon farm
What does it take to make salmon babies that grow into big, tasty fish. Anisha Satya visits Akaroa King Salmon's hatchery in North Canterbury.
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Northland's storms test award-winning farm with "million-dollar" herd
In just three years the Whangaroa Ngaiotonga Trust's beef farm in Northland was able to boast a "million-dollar herd" on its rehabilitated whenua, win...
Farming takes a village
Anisha Satya speaks to Fonterra Dairy Woman of the Year winner, Hinehou Timutimu, about how community-focused farming makes an impact.
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Rural News Wrap for 15 May 2026
A wrap of news from RNZ's rural news desk
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 8 May 2026
Sally meets the founder of skincare brand Nudi Point, Gianina's at the Pureore Hunting Competition, and Anisha's bug-hunting in the Ashburton Forks.
Hunting out the next generation of hunters at the Pureora Hunting Competition
The nearly 40-year-old competition, which runs during the peak hunting period known as the roar, is the only such of its kind run by the Department of...
On-farm conservation
Anisha meets Ashburton Forks farmers who are trapping, planting and testing their way to healthier farms.
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Skinny-dipping inspires back-to-nature rural venture
Northland skin care brand Nudi Point is named after the swimming hole where Blair Coates spent many happy summers. The former banker who suffered bad...
Rural News Wrap for 8 May 2026
A round-up of the week's rural news.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 1 May 2026
Anisha sits down with a country musician, Gianina joins a Waikato farmer on a deer hunt, and Sally visits the Carb Club, a shared food-growing initiat...
Pumpkins, potatoes and a plot of land: Welcome to the Carb Club
It takes a grower, a gatherer - of people - and a plot of land to create a "carb club". The idea is to make it easier for people to grow staple crops...
Country music talks with Molly Harrison
A chat about New Zealand's country music scene with Ashburton-based artist, Molly Harrison.
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We hunt at dawn
Gianina Schwanecke heads for the hills of Waikato to learn more about the art of deer stalking during the roar.
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On the Farm for 1 May 2026
A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around the country.
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FULL SHOW: Country Life for 24 April 2026
Gianina chats with an Otago taxidermist during the roar; Sally visits Halcombe, a community remembering its Home Guard this ANZAC weekend, and Anisha...
Fencing in the classroom
Anisha heads to Geraldine High School to learn about their farming skills course, the Primary Industries Academy.
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From Farm to Front Line: Halcombe honours its Home Guard
Many small towns in New Zealand had their own "Dad's Army" during the second world war. But far from feeble and fumbling like those in the well-known...
Roar ready: Busy season underway for taxidermists and wild game butchers
"Once the reds start roaring, it really, really gets busy," Oliver Garland of All Over Taxidermy says.
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Rural News Wrap for 24 April 2026
A round-up of the week's rural news.
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