In this summer series, the Country Life team is taking you back to some of the places we've been to over the past year.
Farmer Time gets kids focused on farming
Brigid Ladley and some Year 2 students at St Michael's Church School Photo: Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
Farmers are beaming into urban classrooms to give city children a taste of rural life thanks to a new educational programme.
Every two weeks, Christchurch teacher Brigid Ladley and her students have a FaceTime call with Hawkes Bay farmer Pat Crawshaw while he's out and about.
Read more about how Ladley teaches Year 2 students at St Michael's Church School.
Plenty of wriggle room for world's largest worm farm
Worms processing sticker paper Photo: RNZ/Carol Stiles
The world's largest worm farming operation started with 20 buckets of worms, now it has three billion.
"It's probably 16 truck and trailer loads - easily," says MyNoke founder, senior scientist, and worm menu planner Michael Quintern.
Taupo-based MyNoke talks to Country Life about how they use worms to convert 160-thousand tonnes of organic waste into rich vermicast each year which is then on-sold to farmers, orchardists and home gardeners.
From mother to daughter - A smooth transition
Kate Scott Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes
After single-handedly running Rees Valley Station for nearly 20 years, Iris Scott was more than happy to hand over the reins to her daughter Kate.
The 18,000-hectare property at the head of Lake Wakatipu is home to about 5000 merino sheep and 200 cattle.
Iris tells Country Life how she carried on farming after her husband died in 1992 and her great relief when her daughter Kate finally expressed an interest in taking over the farm.
