Country Life visits a sheep and beef farm near Culverden that has it's own brand of fine merino blankets and yarns, a Western AustralaTasman dairy farmer talks about the challenges he's facing, the team visiting a tiny museum in Staveley that celebrates local history and finds out about a new tool to calculate greenhouse gas emissions.

Find out what's happening on farms and orchards around the country. Hawkes Bay had a 29 degree day this week and a bit of rain. That makes it a risky time for fire-blight in apples. Spring sowing of next year's winter feed paddocks is in full swing in Canterbury.

Anthony Hampton has an impressive collection of Massey farm machinery and vintage tractors. Next year his farm is hosting the Wheat and Wheels Rally that is timed to celebrate the 175th anniversary of the Massey brand.

A gully at the base of Mt Taranaki surrounded by dairy farms has been transformed into a food forest nourished by home waste. The family who live here save energy and water by farming on terraces and they're showcasing their closed system method in the Taranaki Sustainable Backyards Trail.

A new programme has been launched to help with the economic reintergration of seasonal workers returning to Vanuatu. People who have been working on orchards, vineyards and in packhouses in Australia and New Zealand now have the opportunity to build on their business and entrepreneurial skills.

There've been three days of sun in a row on the West Coast. Hawke's Bay sheep farmers are thrilled so many new-born lambs have survived.

Full Episode for Friday October 22 2021.

Tracey Topp started making merino socks for children sixteen years ago. It all began when she struggled to find woollen socks for her two boys. Now her Cosy Toes brand has expanded to adult socks as well as other woollen clothing. She now sells all over the world via her online shop.

Heiko Kaiser has a pest control business for all sorts of pests, urban and rural, but his interest in pests started when bed bugs were found in a resort he was running.

Country Life visits a dairy farm which is helping to test methods which might lower the environmental footprint of dairying and meets an entrepreneur who's taken New Zealand wool socks to the world.