Dams are being cleaned out in Northland to improve water storage and at the top of the South Island the hop harvest has been producing good yeilds.

Planting, weeding and making products from essential oil is keeping a couple busy at a lavender farm in lockdown, orchids bloom in Horowhenua, ANZACs remembered in tiny Wimbledon and The Nineties File features Jack Raharuhi who needs a bigger cabinet to store his agricultural awards.

Old dairy factories can be found throughout New Zealand. Some are crumbling and scrawled with graffiti but others have taken on a new lease of life. The Old Dairy Factory in Norsewood is now a community music hub with once-a-month concerts put on by its new occupant, award-winning musical director David Selfe.

Kim Tatham has recently won an award for her service to rural health. She has a dental practice in Piopio; a town with fewer than 400 residents.

We speak to former Speaker David Carter at home on his farm in Banks Peninsula and the Minister for Agriculture Damien O'Connor on his eight hectare lifestyle block in the Tasman district.

Winter's on its way with a chill in the air and snow in the south but not nearly enough rain to break drought. Farmers are feeding the soil to keep growth going with more stock than normal to feed.

Jono Walker of the Farmers' Markets New Zealand explains how artisan growers are coping during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Rural MPs during lockdown, the dentist in Piopio, Norsewood's old dairy factory now humming to new tunes, and a look and growing and farming conditions around the country.

Bridget and Richard Neeson grow kiwifruit deep in a valley 40 minutes drive south of Taumarunui. The fruit gets plenty of winter chilling. Their crop is one of the last to be picked in New Zealand.

A sawmill in North Canterbury produces hardwood timber products from eucalyptus trees. Owner John Fairweather, who was introduced to forestry as a teenager by his father, also grows several species at his 20 hectare plantation in Sefton. Currently he is milling the bearers and planks for the re-construction of the Governors Bay Jetty from 200 tonnes of logs that come from a farm on Banks Peninsula.