Country Life speaks to farmers and growers around New Zealand to find out about growing conditions over the past month.

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This week Country Life takes you to a farm grazing pigs and cattle beneath solar panels and meets organic honey producers Shayne and Elizabeth Mackenzie, and a recent Lincoln University graduate.

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In this episode:

• 0:44 - An update on Tasman
• 2:22 - Rural News Wrap
• 7:32 - Connecting people 'from the land' with those working on the land
• 14:38 - Sweet success for Coromandel couple's organic honey
• 29:30 - 'Learning along the way' with agrivoltaics

With thanks to guests:

• Harris Moana
• Shayne and Elizabeth Mackenzie, Woodlands Organic Honey
• Nigel and Merrin Upchurch, and Matt Shanks

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Dual land use, with pigs and cattle grazing under solar panels, has unlocked new opportunities for Waitangi Farm in Waiuku. Mostly importantly say Nigel and Merrin Upchurch, it aligns with their values.

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In this episode:

• 0:16 - Feeding time at Waitangi Farm
• 5:03 - Homecoming and an ecologist's 'classroom'
• 9:10 - What is agrivoltaics?
• 12:40 - Lightyears Solar
• 17:52 - Pioneering effort

With thanks to:

• Nigel and Merrin Upchurch, and Matt Shanks of Lightyears Solar

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A honey shed on a hill is buzzing with the sound of honey flowing into jars as the bees take a hard-earned rest from honey making. Country Life meets Shayne and Elizabeth Mackenzie whose organic honey is produced from hives scattered over remote parts of the northern Coromandel peninsula.

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You can learn more about Woodland's Honey, here.

With thanks to:

• Shayne and Elizabeth Mackenzie

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Time spent helping his grandparents on their whenua near Kāwhia inspired a love of farming for Harris Moana. Having just finished his Agribusiness studies he's now focussed on building his reo so he can act as a bridge between industry and tangata whenua.

With thanks to:

• Harris Moana

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A round-up of the week's news from the primary sector.

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This week producer Cosmo Kentish-Barnes is in his wet weather gear in the Tasman district meeting farmers and other rural residents, still battered and bruised from one catastrophic weather event, staring down the barrel of another deluge.

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In this episode:

• 0.38 News wrap
• 6.20 Tasman's rural resilience tested by back-to-back storms

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As a second weather bomb lashed the Tasman region, Cosmo Kentish-Barnes was on the ground with farmers and rural people, still battered and bruised from the first flood and staring down the barrel of another deluge.

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A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news desk

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This week Country Life follows the trail of food scraps from the table to farms with the City to Farm project north of Auckland, meets two young farming-focused youngsters at the top of their game, and dips into the archives to head to a working farm dog sale.

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