Country Life

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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With thanks to:

• Hannah Zwartz

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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 communities.

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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 turned 50 years old.

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With thanks to:

• The Rainbow Valley community

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Guillermo and Christina Tolentino share the joys and challenges of migrating to rural New Zealand.

With thanks to:

• Guillermo Tolentino
• Christina Tolentino

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A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.

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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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Anisha heads to Bluff to understand the state of the wild oyster fishery.

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With thanks to:

• Graeme Wright
• John Edminstin
• Max Russell
• Ann, Margaret and Betty Robertson

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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 a visit to see how she helps get them used to the human touch so they can be rehomed.

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With thanks to:

• Kelly Wilson, Morgan Chandler-Bruce and Bjarne Streyl

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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 thousands of pests over the years and can be found as far away as the Falkland Islands.

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With thanks to:

• Steve Allan

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A round up of conditions on farms and orchards around the country

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