Jun 20

50m 40s

FULL SHOW: Country Life for 20 June 2025

About this episode

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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