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Rural People & Issues

This section of the website holds articles on everything you need to know about non-farming issues when living in the country. Choose from the menu on the left to browse our articles.

Rural People & Issues
 

Leaving the Plastic Behind

Trug-maker Bill Blair talks to Diana Noonan about his craft.

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Pro Rata – Jane and Jim Young’s Native Nursery

Make-it-Work – how you can turn your lifestyle block into a business. Jane Young lives with her husband, Jim, on a 4 hectare lifestyle block in South Otago.

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Weaving with Native Plants

I live in a very watery part of the world with an ocean and river estuary at my doorstep

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Allen Gray – rug designer and maker

If you’re planning a trip into Central Otago, give serious thought to arriving in the small town of Roxburgh on a Thursday.

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‘Get Pickled’

 ‘Get Pickled’ - Sharon McNabb talks to Diana Noonan about her home-based preserving business

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Farmstay – team play!

He says she’s a wonderful cook. She says he’s a wonderful story teller.

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Cats and Quilts

Katrina Hampton’s latest patchwork quilt, a warm mix of golds, reds and greens, adorns her living room sofa.

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Boarding Kennels – full-time and full-on!

Make-it-Work – how you can turn your lifestyle block into a business. Boarding kennels may not be the first thing that comes to mind as you consider a lifestyle block occupation.

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The bee's knees!

Honey bees are really cool. No really, they're amazing. The more you know about them the better they get.

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Biosecurity advice for lifestyle farmers from MPI

There are a number of things you can do to reduce the risk of introducing animal diseases onto your property.

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The homekill debate part 3...

Rod Slater is correct in some of his responses to my article on home-kill vs meat works meat,

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Is homekill really better than meat from the works?

I refer to Dr Marjorie Orr's article posted on your site recently; a number of statements are made that in my view are not correct.

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1080 Poisoning

Whether we like it or not, 1080 poison is widely used to kill introduced mammalian species that may threaten native wildlife and harbour TB.

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Why is home-kill meat so much better than meat from the works?

Those of you who have eaten home-killed meat will have noticed that it is more tender and tastier than meat from animals killed in the freezing works.

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Your local SPCA and the RNZSPCA: separate organisations - one cause

Some people get confused about the SPCA - there's the RNZSPCA and your local SPCA - what's the difference?

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Teaching young people about farming

One of the nicest things about having a lifestyle farm is that we can keep a few pets and friendly farm animals,

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Stock losses in winter storms - what's to be done?

In recent months we've had snow, floods, earthquakes and high winds.

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Animal welfare issues - some theory behind the practice

As a country based on animal exports, it's important that our animal welfare standards lead the world.

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Buy humanely produced eggs

None of us likes the idea of hens being kept in battery cages

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The Good Oil: Excessive noise

Michael lives on a one-acre block and has a neighbour who processes firewood for charity.

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Setting the night on fire for a good cause

Here's a burning question. 

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The Good Oil: Ticks - a ticklish problem

Jacques and Barb have a problem with their three organic heifers...

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The Good Oil: Check those cheques

The post always gets through.  Or does it?   And there's much more at stake than a birthday card to Aunt Joan going astray.

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The Good Oil: Going it alone with sewerage

Janet is looking for an alternative to having to join her local council’s proposed new sewage scheme.

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The Good Oil: The grass is always greener

It didn’t get off to a good start.  Shoot ‘em, he said.

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The Good Oil: Odd goats and zinc

Kate has 30-odd (very odd, she says) goats...

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The Good Oil: Following the paper trail

Remember that idea of the paperless office? 

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The Good Oil: Compost- throw out the books and do it the easy way

Waikato conservationist and permaculturalist Maxine Fraser says people get very hung up about compost. 

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The Good Oil: The Hard Word

Sceptical of Rotorua lives on a small lifestyle block just out of the city. 

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The Good Oil: Paper Roads

The question is – what is a paper road and what rights do landowners have regarding them?

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