Country Life

Scientists look at the details underpinning nitrogen and its use in agriculture, horticulture and its impacts on the environment.

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Flower picking and packing for export is in full swing at Prebbleton Peonies near Christchurch.

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A round-up of the week's agricultural news.

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We chat to a rural vet, visit a farm where horticulture is helping addicts recover and find out about a novel plan to capture greenhouse gases for feeding farm animals.

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In a Rotorua lab scientists are cooking up plans to create stockfeed out of captured greenhouse gases from geothermal power stations.

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Country Life visited Nova Trust's farm near Christchurch where the charity is helping rehabilitate addicts through horticulture.

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Rory Dean, graduated as a vet from Edinburgh University in 2015, and has already filled a book - Adventures of a Country Vet - full of adventures and experiences as a rural vet in his native UK and now New Zealand.

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Kiwifruit is starting to bloom in Bay of Plenty, dairy farmers up and down the country are busy breeding the next season's calves, while North Canterbury farms have welcomed some recent rain to break the dry.

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We catch up with a dairy farmer embracing regenerative farming, a flower farmer juggling a young family and visit a farm classroom connecting schoolchildren to the environment.

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Schoolchildren are learning in a bell tent on a riverside farm in South Wairarapa. They're taking part in a project connecting the community to the river and moana.

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This is the third in a 3-part series.

Part 1 'See, feel, touch': How a riverside farm connects with community

Part 2 "It's lovely planting new trees and making nature"

Part 3 Bush classroom a cosy and creative space under canvas…

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