Country Life

This week Country Life chats rodeo welfare code changes, learns how recycled books can be used to grow edible mushrooms and spends a day with a country vet.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

In this episode:

• 0:00 - Rural News Wrap
• 0:00 - Changes coming to rodeo welfare code
• 0:00 - Growing mushrooms from fairytales
• 0:00 - 75 years of country calls and clinic care

With thanks to:

• Dr Matthew Stone, NAWAC
• Morgane Honoré and Inga Robinson
• Ben Mitchell, Amanda Jordan, Robert O'Connor, Lara Quinn, Joanne Hayman and Heidi Fowler

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New Plymouth Vet Group is celebrating 75 years. Country Life follows the team through a busy day of surgery, animal care and a farm visit to see how veterinary work has changed across the generations.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to:

• Ben Mitchell, Amanda Jordan, Robert O'Connor, Lara Quinn, Joanne Hayman and Heidi Fowler
• and the team at New Plymouth Vet Group

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Some old books, water and mouldy seeds are the recipe to native mushroom growing.

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With thanks to:

• Morgane Honoré and Inga Robinson

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Country Life speaks to Dr Mat Stone of NAWAC as proposed changes to the rodeo welfare code are open for feedback.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

Curious about the proposed changes to the Code of Welfare for rodeos? Find them here.

With thanks to:

• Dr Matthew Stone, NAWAC

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A wrap of news from RNZ's rural newsdesk.

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This week Country Life digs into land uses on the East Coast, visits an old rural school turned communal village and checks out the action at the Methven Rodeo.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

In this episode:

• 0:47 - On the Farm
• 8:03 - The making of Te Tairāwhiti: Getting land use 'wrong' and where to from here
• 15:42 - It takes a village
• 30:38 - Right time for a rodeo

With thanks to:

• Hilton Collier, Tairāwhiti Whenua Charitable Trust
• Drew Mackenzie
• Bert Elstob, Rosa Dekkar, Felicity Montgomery, Angus Smith

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Anisha experiences the Methven Rodeo, and meets the people behind it.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to:

• Bert Elstob
• Rosa Dekkar
• Felicity Montgomery
• Angus Smith

Curious about the proposed changes to the Code of Welfare for rodeos? Find them here.

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On the site of an old school south of Ōtaki, Makahuri is becoming a village of homes, gardens, chickens, cows and neighbours who look out for one another. Sally Round visits a co-housing community discovering village life takes plenty of work, compromise and conversation.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to:

• Drew Mackenzie

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Māori agribusiness consultant Hilton Collier on Te Tairāwhiti's changing land uses.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

With thanks to:

• Hilton Collier, Tairāwhiti Whenua Charitable Trust

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A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around New Zealand

A wrap of conditions on farms and orchards around the country.

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