Country Life meets a former hotel manager who's swapped swipe cards for growing spuds, goes for a skate at a country ice rink and visits the farm at the centre of Wellington's kiwi project.

This week Country Life meets a former hotel manager who has swapped swipe cards for growing spuds in South Otago, Cosmo goes skating at the newly refurbished community-run ice rink in Staveley and Gianina's out on a farm that's become the cornerstone of the Capital Kiwi Project.

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