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  • Premiered: Mar 2013
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Season 51
51x1
Generous Legacy
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 12, 2016
A massive farm gives its profits away every year. The employees and the local Hawkes Bay community love the concept and the unique story of two pioneering sisters behind it.
51x2
A Rare Breed
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 19, 2016
A Hawkes Bay farmer throws his property open so local school-children can learn about the environment and one pupil discovers a rare and ancient worm.
51x3
Action Station
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 26, 2016
A young family live life at high pace and with maximum laughter on their Gisborne stud farm. Sam Hain says every day alive is a blessing so he makes the most of it.
51x4
Just Kidding
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 09, 2016
A couple start a new venture milking goats and making organic cheese after they get bored in their retirement. Theyre working harder than ever before, but they love their new role.
51x5
The Power of Whanau
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 16, 2016
When a shearing family are turned down for a bank loan, they help one another to lease, then buy, a farm each. One couple has gone on to win a prestigious Maori farming trophy.
51x6
Starting Over
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 23, 2016
When a master horseman becomes a solo father, he has to re-think his career. He feels his added responsibilities have made starting wild horses too dangerous.
51x7
Liquid Gold
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 30, 2016
When Northland bee-keeper Blanche Murray started the Kai Ora Honey business a few years back, she had no idea it would soon turn into a global concern.
51x8
Spring in His Step
Episode overview
Air date
May 07, 2016
A 76-year-old ex-possum trapper still runs his remote sheep and beef farm with help from his grandkids. He and his wife have lived in the area for 50 years, raising six children.
51x9
Substantial Seas
Episode overview
Air date
May 14, 2016
A Hawke's Bay fisherman has re-invented the fishing net, to fish more sustainably. His success fishing with his steel cage innovation has fisheries staff keen to conduct trials.
51x10
Family Bred
Episode overview
Air date
May 21, 2016
In the heart of dairy country, a Waikato farmer is bucking the trend by raising sheep and beef cattle. He is also keen to leave greener pastures for his young family's future.
51x11
Queen of the Crop
Episode overview
Air date
May 28, 2016
Hawkes Bay orchardist Mark Ericksen says picking the right apple to grow is just like backing race horses – you want to pick winners.
51x12
Family Matters
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 04, 2016
Two generations of Chatham Islanders make a living from cray-fishing, farming and showing tourists around the islands they're grown to love.
51x13
Call of the Land
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 11, 2016
A 17-year-old woman leaves school and opts to follow her dream to go farming. Louisa says everyone was surprised at first, but they now support her choice.
51x14
Love the Life
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 18, 2016
A husband and wife farm with a love for each other and of the land. She's a city girl turned farmer, and together they breed horses, train working dogs and ride endurance.
51x15
To Feed an Island
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 25, 2016
On Great Barrier Island, a market gardening couple grow top-quality heritage fruit and veges using organic methods. They've had to be inventive and hard-working to survive.
51x16
The Whole Hog
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 02, 2016
A couple expand their free range pig farm in Wairarapa with the help of Hong Kong backers, turning heritage breeds into pork much sought-after by chefs.
51x17
Outside the Square
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 09, 2016
What sort of farmer invites 10,000 people to a three-day party at their place every New Year?
51x18
Out the Back
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 16, 2016
Out the Back: A couple uses traditional draught horses for all their farm tasks on a Canterbury high country station. The horses pull the supply wagon for the team working the annual autumn muster.
51x19
Taking Charge
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 23, 2016
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51x20
Mussel Bound
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 30, 2016
As a young scientist, John Young began investigating if mussels could be farmed and 40 years later he's still on the water, leading New Zealand's second-biggest mussel farming company.
51x21
Autumn Harvest
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 06, 2016
An immigrant family perfects the art of growing feijoas and capsicums using natural biological methods. They see feijoas as New Zealand's next big horticulture export success story.
51x22
Learning the Land
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 13, 2016
This episode has no summary.
51x23
Film Noir
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 20, 2016
Actor Sam Neill has immersed himself in a second career, growing grapes and making wine in Central Otago. He believes his pinot noir will create a longer-lasting legacy than his films.
51x24
Riding High
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 27, 2016
A family welcomes tourists and walkers to their spectacular and remote inland Gisborne farm. They breed horses to work the steep terrain and also compete at riding events.
51x25
In Their Element
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 03, 2016
A family work the wild waters around Stewart Island, chasing paua, kina and blue cod. They also run a surf school in Riverton, bringing surfing back to Southland.
51x26
Flower Girls
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 10, 2016
Two women leave the city to grow peonies, discover the roots have properties that ease their children's skin problems, so they start a new venture selling peony soaps and skin balms.
51x27
Peak Production
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 17, 2016
A family in the Canterbury high country prepare for their annual deer auction, while entertaining trophy hunters from the USA, and being part of a traveling theatre troupe.
51x28
Cray Brothers
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 24, 2016
Two brothers find success chasing crayfish off the wild Marlborough coast. They export them live, providing jobs for their small community, as well as farming beef and growing grapes
51x29
Maniototo Merino
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 01, 2016
Maniototo Merino: A karate black belt's love of Japanese culture helps him secure a lucrative contract to supply his Central Otago ultra-fine merino wool to Tokyo suit manufacturers.
51x30
A Maturing Enterprise
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 08, 2016
A city couple move to rural Kaikoura, learn to farm goats and make their own award-winning cheese, which they sell to restaurants and from their own shop.
51x31
On Song
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 15, 2016
A Kawhia farmer hand-rears the offspring of sheep that give birth to as many as six lambs each. She also writes and records country music songs and traps possums.
51x32
The Long Game
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 22, 2016
A sharemilking couple work with Maori landowners to ensure their historic land is farmed sustainably. They send their milk to New Zealand's only Maori-owned dairying company.
51x33
Wet and Wild
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 29, 2016
A conservationist leads teams of international student volunteers who are restoring one of New Zealand's most significant privately-owned wetlands south of Dunedin.
51x34
Changing Landscapes
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 05, 2016
A couple moves from their island home in the Marlborough Sounds to take over managing a massive sheep station in the MacKenzie Country owned by a family of artists.
51x35
Lease of Life
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 12, 2016
Two women farm a leased property in the foothills of the Ruahine Range, where they raise sheep and train working dogs, including animals given up by other farmers as useless.
51x36
Eight is Enough
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 19, 2016
When their parents become too ill to work, the teenagers from a family of eight children take over running their North Otago orchard, to avoid having to sell the land.
51x37
Soggy Bottom
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 26, 2016
A couple turn their rough swampy land into the perfect place to run free-range heritage breed pigs, then start an on-farm butchery and kitchen, using traditional English recipes.
51x38
Fruit of the Soil
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 03, 2016
A father and daughter spend years working to create a successful truffle industry in North Canterbury and their dogs are finding increasing amounts of valuable black gold.
51x39
Generation Next
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 10, 2016
The third generation on a North Otago high country station follow in their forebears' footsteps and continue the farm's tradition of innovation.
51x40 Season finale
One Big Family
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 17, 2016
A West Coast woman who runs a dairy farm with a big emphasis on family life brings the same values to the team on the Landcorp farms that she also manages.

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