The Norsewood cemetery reveals a lot about the hardy Scandinavians who came to NZ in the 1870s. What they found here is far from what they were promised but many lived to a ripe old age despite the grim conditions.

SMASH has been set up to help dairy farmers, particularly those with smaller operations, run successful businesses.

Dayanne Almeida is a self-professed 'sheep nutter'. Since Country Life met Dayanne three years ago she has bought her own flock and has become entranced by deer.

Ni-vanuatu workers on an orchard in Central Otago are desperate to return home to help rebuild their villages after Cyclone Harold struck last month but Covid-19 has got in the way.

Hawkes Bay is in dire straits with a continuing drought, Northland which was in one of the worst droughts on record, has had rain. A parched Marlborough received rain last weekend and South Otago is looking a picture.

Rosemary Freeman is switching her role as an AgResearch technician for an apple picking role until the country moves out of Covid restrictions.

SMASH, Norsewood cemetery, an apple picking guest, stranded RSE workers from Vanuatu, the Regional Wrap and what has happened next for Dayanne Almeida.

Just over a year ago Michael and Susie Woodward packed up their 4 children, cows, goats, chickens and farm equipment and moved from a 50/50 sharemilking position in Canterbury to their own farm in King Country. The move was 15 years in the making.

Jack Perkins from the RNZ Spectrum programme is talking to Phyl Christie and Joan Poulton about their childhoods growing up on Clarence Reserve Station, inland from Kaikoura. Their father Percy Acton-Adams brought his family to Clarence Reserve just before WW1. It was a large station along the lines of Molesworth and Erewhon ... 148 thousand acres with one sheep to eight acres. There was a tightly structured community with stationhands, shepherds, aunts, a governess, cook and nurse.

We're back at Te Hera Vineyard where winemaker John Douglas has had an unusually solitary time, thanks to Covid-19, nurturing his fermenting grapes, measuring sugar levels and pressing the grapes ready for the barrel.