Cosmo Kentish Barnes

Growing stone fruit at Waitaki Orchards is a family affair. Justin and Julie Watt bought the 34-hectare property in 2003 and their six children all learnt how to prune, pick and pack. Their… Audio

Country Life is in a secret location in the centre of the North Island digging under pine trees for ginseng, a root which is prized in traditional Chinese medicine. The team is also at the only… Audio

Best of 2022 - With crossbred wool prices remaining low, Canterbury sheep farmers Jane and Mark Schwass are producing exercise mats with their wool clip. Audio

Country Life is out whitebaiting on the first day of the season and chats with the co-founder of a NZ start-up developing a process which could disrupt the dairy industry and Cosmo Kentish-Barnes… Audio

In celebration of Country Life's 25th anniversary, we're sharing a popular 2008 story about writer Christine Fernyhough's midlife change from the Auckland business world to farming on a high-country… Audio, Gallery

Country Life this week profiles two women with quite different farming journeys. Christine Fernyhough's farming experience at Canterbury's Castle Hill Station is a story of a woman midlife having a go… Audio

A cute detection dog called Toby is helping an Otago pest control team track down wily wallabies crossing the Waitaki River.  The  Aussie imports are escaping South Canterbury's Wallaby Containment… Audio

Best of 2022 - Back in the 1950s, a group of wallabies turned up at Wainui Station... and never left.  Audio

Every morning during lambing Alistair Bird heads out with his binoculars and a Go Pro camera to look for new born lambs and birthing ewes that are struggling. He uses the GoPro to record the highs and… Audio

Restore Native, Moving to the lambing beat, Food and friendship with Magic Beans and On the Farm - a wrap of farming conditions around NZ. Audio