Country Calendar

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  • Premiered: Mar 2013
  • Episodes: 456
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Season 57
57x1
Winning Ways
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 20, 2022
A couple with no farming experience return to the husband's family land and prove so successful that they win the ultimate award - the Ahuwhenua Trophy for dairy farming.
57x2
Fired Up
Episode overview
Air date
Feb 27, 2022
A North Canterbury family, farming sheep and beef, stage a controlled burn-off to save their good livestock country from the encroaching wilding pines threatening their pasture.
57x3
Back on the Land
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 06, 2022
Iwi owners of an Eastland sheep and beef farm turn their fortunes around, buy more farms and move into new ventures to create more jobs in their community.
57x4
Spearheading
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 13, 2022
A Horowhenua market gardening family creates year-round work for their team by adding hydroponic berryfruit and dairying to their asparagus operation.
57x5
The Whole Story
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 20, 2022
A woman splits her time between the family farm and her veterinary work, as well as running a new social enterprise focused on sustainable farming.
57x6
A Good Egg
Episode overview
Air date
Mar 27, 2022
A former electrician and his wife turn their backyard chook run into a free-range egg farm, selling to restaurants until COVID forces them to seek new markets.
57x7
Fine Fibre
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 03, 2022
A father and son break with tradition by mustering with a helicopter on their high country sheep station, but produce some of the world's finest merino fibre.
57x8
Wonder Weed
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 10, 2022
A paua fisherman on Rakiura/Stewart Island joins a research mission exploring the use of seaweed to reduce methane emissions and help fight climate change.
57x9
Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Episode overview
Air date
Apr 24, 2022
A traditional sheep farming family use their coarse wool to make their own line of high-end bags, hats and wallets.
57x10
Tiger by the Tail
Episode overview
Air date
May 01, 2022
A Southland cropping and sheep-farming family develops a traditional whisky distillery on their farm, doing everything themselves from grain to glass.
57x11
Top of the Crops
Episode overview
Air date
May 08, 2022
A sheep and crop-farming family branches out into new ventures, including tulips and hemp.
57x12
Fly My Pretties
Episode overview
Air date
May 15, 2022
A beekeeper successfully combines his natural love of bees with a wish to explore new ways of doing things
57x13
Keeping it Irish
Episode overview
Air date
May 22, 2022
A woman whose passion for rare Irish Sport Horses saw her buy her first at 17 aims to breed the perfect horse on the sheep farm she runs with her husband.
57x14
High Flyers
Episode overview
Air date
May 29, 2022
One cousin grows crops such as sunflowers and canary seed, while the other runs a factory that turns the grain into birdseed products.
57x15
My Aim is True
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 12, 2022
A keen hunter-gatherer from the top of the south turns his passion for spearfishing into a business and showcases his way of life on his own TV show
57x16
Fruitful Future
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 19, 2022
A Nelson family expands their kiwifruit and apple orchard into a thriving business, employing the entire family and meeting staffing challenges by innovating.
57x17
Carbon Zero
Episode overview
Air date
Jun 26, 2022
Two successful entrepreneurs go back to their rural roots, buy a high-country station and convert it into New Zealand's first carbon zero certified farm.
57x18
Station Bred
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 03, 2022
In Rangitikei, a farming family on a big hill-country station seek a better return for their coarse wool by turning it into blankets that they design and sell themselves.
57x19
Where the Wild Things Are
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 10, 2022
A family farming near Aoraki Mt Cook harvests their wilding pine trees and puts the proceeds back into their sheep & beef operation.
57x20
It's Only Natural
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 17, 2022
A dairy farmer makes big changes to the way he runs his farm, putting the welfare of his herd ahead of other priorities such as profit.
57x21
Bearing Fruit
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 24, 2022
When a Northland couple planted New Zealand's first commercial pineapple orchard everyone told them they'd fail, but they're selling everything they can grow.
57x22
Sister Act
Episode overview
Air date
Jul 31, 2022
Two sisters share the running of the family sheep and beef farm between them and also keep their own careers going by working part-time elsewhere.
57x23
Home in the Hills
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 07, 2022
A young Taranaki family farms sheep & beef on steep country, and makes the most of the mānuka they once dismissed as scrub by developing a honey business.
57x24
The Flattest Paddock
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 14, 2022
A Marlborough family, whose farm was too steep for cattle, became mussel farmers instead, and host a big equestrian event on their new farm among the grape vines.
57x25
Way Out Back
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 21, 2022
Three generations of a farming family and their staff spend a week in a musterers' hut at the back of one of NZ's biggest privately-owned high-country stations.
57x26
Planting a Future
Episode overview
Air date
Aug 28, 2022
An East Coast whānau sets about securing their family's future by restoring their lands, through partnership with a new farm carbon-forestry venture.
57x27
Flat Out
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 04, 2022
A North Island farmer moves south to manage a government-owned farm on the edge of Fiordland National Park, making changes to improve the farming system.
57x28
All at Sea
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 11, 2022
A Rakiura Stewart Island family have all made their living on the sea, catching crays or diving for pāua, and the next generation is now becoming an expert fisher.
57x29
Get Cracking
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 18, 2022
A Canterbury family turns its bare paddocks into one of the country's largest walnut orchards, working with other local growers to process and sell the nuts.
57x30
Black Gold
Episode overview
Air date
Sep 25, 2022
A retired couple took a punt growing truffles on their Te Puke block, and are now busy producing, selling and showcasing their nuggets of black gold.
57x31
Vintners' Luck
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 02, 2022
A couple develops a bare block of stony Wairarapa ground into a vineyard and olive grove producing top-class wine and oil.
57x32
From the Ground Up
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 16, 2022
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57x33
Something Brewing
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 23, 2022
A couple farming sheep and beef near the shores of Lake Taupō build an on-farm brewery after facing restrictions on livestock numbers and needing to diversify.
57x34
Ocean Farm
Episode overview
Air date
Oct 30, 2022
A Coromandel man joins with a mussel farmer to trial growing seaweed in a 3D ocean farm to provide food for restaurants and to mitigate climate warming.
57x35
Fruits of Their Labour
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 06, 2022
A woman uses her Thai background to start a mushroom farm in Northland, while her partner leaves the finance industry for a new life growing avocados.
57x36
The Full Picture
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 13, 2022
Despite being busy with lambing and calving on their Rangitikei sheep and beef farm, a couple fosters art by hosting an artist in residence.
57x37
Growing a Future
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 20, 2022
A Gisborne couple turn their sheep and beef farm into an outdoor classroom as part of an industry-led initiative for young people keen to be farmers.
57x38
The Neighbourly Whey
Episode overview
Air date
Nov 27, 2022
A Golden Bay dairy farm provides a way-of-life for three families, with the owner, farm manager, and neighbouring cheese-makers all working together.
57x39
Growing Community
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 04, 2022
A Hawke's Bay community supporting people with intellectual disabilities provides jobs on a dairy farm, cheesery and a garden.
57x40 Season finale
Long Sight
Episode overview
Air date
Dec 11, 2022
The fourth generation of an Indian immigrant family works hard on their Waikato sheep, beef and dairy farm, creating a farming legacy for future generations.

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