Cherries

Christmas Day is a time of tradition for a lot of people, but that sense of tradition doesn't always extend to the dinner table. Indeed, more and more people are shunning the season's traditional fare… Audio

Fionnuala Reynolds has spent the summer checking the quality of cherries coming off trees in Alexandra. Audio

Paul Tapper has lived and farmed in the Rangiora/North Canterbury region for many years and with retirement looming, the PGG rural real estate agent has fulfilled a dream to develop a traditional… Audio

Wanaka couple Sharon and Ross Kirk are going for the cherry on the top of the cake as far as New Zealand's production is concerned. They're hoping to equal the country's entire cherry output in a… Audio, Gallery

Country Life's whipping around the country to hear about 'the year that's been' for our food producers. Audio

Plant and Food Research is trialing a radically new way of growing trees. It is training them to grow like candelabra. Audio

Summer has come early to the South Island, with ice-cream melting temperatures prompting Central Otago locals to dust off their togs and head for the lakes well ahead of schedule. Video, Audio

The cherries are early this year and it’s looking like a bumper crop too, says an Otago orchardist. Audio

Seventeen years ago, the blueberry-growing Furniss family found out colour-sorting machines cost $1 million to import, so they had a crack at making one. Now their sorting machine business has a $30… Audio

West Melton fruit grower Peter Sargeant has had to cancel all his Christmas cherry orders because the season is running so late, but luckily his strawberry crop is ripe for picking and the punnets are… Audio