Country Life

Avian flu has been found on an Otago chicken farm for the first time. It's something the poultry industry has spent months preparing for and we take you inside a North Island chicken farm to understand what biosecurity measures are in place.

You can mind more information, including advice from MPI, on our webpage.

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Thanks to goat's milk, Andrea Gauland son's eczema cleared up within two weeks. It was the excuse she needed to start farming dairy goats 25 years ago and she's still loving the whey of life.

You can find photos of Andrea's goats and read more about her journey into milking here.

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A cow pill, vaccines, and specially treated grass-seed are among products it's hoped will be in farmers' methane-busting toolkits in the not-too-distant future.

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This week Country Life's learning about the art of making garden trugs and growing heirloom tomatoes, also the benefits of biochar on a farm growing trees, sheep and beef in the Far North.

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Could biochar be the black gold for integrated forestry and farming operations like Pārengarenga Incorporation in NZ's Far North?

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Meet Anthony and Angela Tringham, of Curious Croppers, the couple growing heirloom tomatoes using agroecology principles.

Read more and check out some photos here.

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Tony Hitchcock has been crafting trugs - wooden garden baskets - for several years using untreated willow or hazel and poplar sourced locally from around Golden Bay.

Read more and check out photos of the trugs here.

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Increasingly dry conditions across much of the North Island has farmers growing nervous about feed heading into summer, while down South the fine weather has led to good lamb weights.

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Country Life gets the low down on greenhouse gases, chats about wallaby control in Bay of Plenty and is with schoolkids helping restore habitat for the endangered Canterbury grass skink.

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Young school students plant habitat for an endangered skink and learn about biodiversity at a nature reserve on a North Canterbury dairy farm.

Photos and more info can be found here

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