All episodes
Friday, 1 December 2023
- 7:07 On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday 1 December 2023
- 7:13 A show stopper for Christmas cake lovers
- 7:20 Finding Frank - a true deer hunting legend
- 7:30 Working horses adjust to new life off the track
- 1:31 Building a wetland on farm
Friday, 24 November 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday 24 November 2023
- 7:30 'Good to have a family business' says master cutler of Svord
- 5:38 'It's the most sustainable fibre in the world'
- 9:13 Shout from the rooftops, says farmers' markets rep
Friday, 17 November 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday November 17 2023
- 7:30 Working hard to achieve the rural dream
- 7:40 Mangaweka Asparagus - from fire to feast
- 1:13 Rare horses relax at show
Friday, 10 November 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday 10 November 2023
- 7:40 'The first thing I did was collect seeds'
- 2:18 A doctor, an island and oil: The olive journey of Peter Crelinsten
- 9:13 'Rural, rustic and exploiting my mother's talents'
Friday, 3 November 2023
- 7:07 On the Farm
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday 3 November 2023
- 7:13 From the Archives: Growing food without sight
- 11:00 Soldiering on: 'There's no way that farm could have run without her'
- 1:18 Bees make a buzz at mid-Canterbury show
Friday, 27 October 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday October 27 2023
- 7:13 Motupipi farm brings degraded wetland back to life
- 8:08 Addicts find hands in the earth help journey to recovery - 'It grounds us'
- 1:18 From sea to land: The kingfish farm of the future
Friday, 20 October 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for 20 October 2023
- 7:10 'Wouldn't want to do anything else' says head shepherd at Otapawa Station
- 7:17 Why rural schools rule
- 7:31 Sheep and Beef Farmer Bayden Anderson - It's as good as it gets
- 9:38 School leavers grow into hardy shepherds on high-country cadet farm
Friday, 13 October 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for 13 October 2023
- 7:21 'I don't expect perfection' says farm dog trainer
- 7:35 A year on the farm: Lambing is in full swing on the Bird's hill block
- 5:13 From water to wine: The story of Dancing Petrel
Friday, 6 October 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life Friday October 6 2023
- 9:37 Piglets go back to the same teat, says free-range pig farmer
- 12:14 'Vegetables have something to do with it' says centenarian
- 4:18 Dog trialling is in the blood
Friday, 29 September 2023
- 7:07 On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around
- 7:07 Country Life for 29 September 2023
- 7:14 'Keep eating it' - Kumara growers need help to leave dismal season behind
- 7:19 From the archives: A visit to Sam Neill's Central Otago vineyard
- 11:37 Barker's of Geraldine thriving after linking up with French jam maker
Friday, 22 September 2023
- 7:00 Pōrangahau's love of winter sports
- 7:05 Country Life for 22 September
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:31 Must Love Dogs
- 7:38 The polar explorers putting their 'hearts and souls' into hemp
- 3:17 Passion unfurled at butterfly house in Hope
Friday, 15 September 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for 15 September 2023
- 7:14 Chocolate maker in search of the origin of his own confection
- 6:00 'I've been chased by wolves twice' - Timaru farmer
- 1:18 'Born with wellies on' - ex cop takes farming in her stride
- 7:00 Pōrangahau's love of winter sports
Friday, 8 September 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for 8 September 2023
- 7:14 Spring has sprung and sowing has begun
- 7:22 Race to save Rotorua's native trees nurtures local rangatahi
- 7:40 A rescue centre for lambs - 'where there's a heartbeat, there's hope'
Friday, 1 September 2023
- 7:07 On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday 1 September 2023
- 7:14 Wellbeing programme 'grateful for rural New Zealand'
- 9:40 Just pay what you can, says Ōtaki vege grower
- 2:18 Erewhon Station: Where the tractors have four legs
Friday, 25 August 2023
- 7:06 Country Life for 25 August 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:19 Calving brings the whisper of spring
- 7:19 Clean-up a pleasant surprise for Hawkes Bay apple grower
- 7:33 At the cutting edge - 'It's hard work making a top axe'
- 9:23 Backyard bananas in the Buller
Friday, 18 August 2023
- 7:06 Country Life for 18 August 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:21 Farmers help to restore one of New Zealand's most polluted estuaries
- 7:36 A year on the farm: 'The young bull's semen is not that active'
- 9:13 Aladdin's cave of country music memorabilia
Friday, 11 August 2023
- 9:07 Lambing's taking off on end of runway farm
- 7:07 Country Life for 11 August 2023
- 7:12 Rural news wrap
- 7:19 Supreme bacon brings home supreme prize for Hawke's Bay butcher
- 7:33 Gin distillery fizzes with plans for home-grown juniper
- 10:23 Maramataka another layer of diversity to a Bay of Plenty farm
Friday, 4 August 2023
- 7:07 On the Farm - a wrap of conditions on farms around the Country
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday August 4 2023
- 7:15 A tree for every woman
- 7:33 Half price natives - and planted for free
- 5:23 How one woman's 'childhood dream' led her to a Kiwi dairy farm
- 10:17 A conversation in the cookhouse
Friday, 28 July 2023
- 7:06 Country Life for 28 July 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:15 Pig hunting escapades of a woman in pink
- 7:18 Wild goats in hunters' sights in crack down on destructive population
- 7:22 "Bring the cash in a suitcase and the farm's yours!"
- 7:30 Crafting honey and art from bees
Friday, 21 July 2023
- 7:06 Country Life for 21 July 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:15 Agricademy - reinventing agricultural training in NZ
- 7:30 Hard work makes dreams come true
- 11:22 The Whanganui forest which never stopped growing opportunity
Thursday, 13 July 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for 14 July 2023
- 7:35 Ngā kura huna - on a path to hidden treasure at Opepe
Friday, 7 July 2023
- 7:07 Rural News Wrap
- 7:07 Country Life for 7 July 2023
- 7:15 A quarter-acre food paradise in Gisborne
- 7:23 Three generations on the same rural route
- 7:35 Bulls for sale after Gabrielle - celebrating the wins
Friday, 30 June 2023
- 7:07 On the Farm - a wrap of conditions around the country
- 7:07 Country Life for Friday June 30 2023
- 7:23 Finding joy in retirement: Knocking toys into shape
- 7:35 Hunting for Tai Rāwhiti - "I don't see deer, I see a food bag"
- 5:15 A green fingered grower with tunnel vision