This week Country Life heads to the saleyards in Canterbury, meets a Taranaki woman weaving locally-grown wool into blankets and finds out what it's like to be a rural midwife working in a very remote part of the Coromandel Peninsula.

You can find photos and read more about the stories in this episode on our webpage, here.

In this episode:

• 0:40 - Rural News Wrap
• 6:02 - Lambs are flying out of the pens at the Canterbury Saleyards
• 14:18 - Where there's wool there's a way
• 27:01 - A day in the life of a rural midwife

With thanks to guests:

• Tim Kyle, Grant Nordstrom, and Brent McCauley
• Alison Ross, The Taranaki Blanket
• Sheryl Wright

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