This week Country Life celebrates Matariki with stories about Māori horticultural wisdom and a couple setting up star gazing experiences on their farm.

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

In this episode:

• 0:48 - Rural News Wrap
• 6:02 - Nick Roskruge - digging into indigenous knowledge
• 14:05 - 'We can grow anything here': A family's growing experiment
• 28:36 - Stars, soil and whakapapa - 'We're just caretakers really'

With thanks to guests:

• Nick Roskruge
• The McClutchie whānau
• Mark and Susannah Guscott, Glen Eden Farms

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Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details