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56x1
Busy Lissie
Episode overview
Five children help run their family sheep and beef farm, as well as helping their mother embark on a new venture producing honey.
56x2
The Vege Patch
Episode overview
A woman returns home to become the fourth generation to work in the family's market garden, continuing a tradition of innovation to keep the business up with the times.
56x3
On the Sheep's Back
Episode overview
A sheep-farming family launches a grassroots campaign to revive wool as a valued fibre, creating knitting kits to teach schoolchildren about the wonders of wool.
56x4
Nest Egg
Episode overview
A couple's free-range egg farm provides them an income as they head towards retirement. Their hens have a great quality of life and produce eggs for cafés around the top of the South.
56x5
Back to the Future
Episode overview
A family goes back to their roots, growing organic vegetables and milking cows in a regenerative and profitable system that's lighter on the land.
56x6
Steam and Honey
Episode overview
A beekeeper’s adult daughter returns home with her husband and children to join the family honey business, taking it in new directions.
56x7
Farming at the Bay
Episode overview
A family carves out a varied living on a challenging coastal sheep and beef farm near Nelson, balancing livestock farming with tourism, forestry and dealing with wild goats and pigs.
56x8
Bella Vacca
Episode overview
A Northland share-milking couple finds their bottled fresh milk is so popular that they're about to take on the huge Auckland home-delivery market.
56x9
Honey From the Hills
Episode overview
A beekeeping family produces honey from flowers growing in the Kaikoura mountains behind their home. They've also diversified into producing the beverage mead from their honey.
56x10
Jurassic Farm
Episode overview
A family has farmed for more than a century among spectacular limestone outcrops, cliffs and caves near Waitomo and they're determined to preserve the natural landscape around them.
56x11
Rush Hour
Episode overview
A Motueka orcharding family say they couldn't get their harvest in without a team of RSE workers from Samoa, who also benefit from the relationship and got through MIQ in time to help out.
56x12
To the Island
Episode overview
A family move from town to whānau land on a remote island in Foveaux Strait south of Bluff, where they plan to farm sheep and produce mānuka honey.
56x13
The Forager
Episode overview
Where most of us see just weeds, Mike King sees sources of food and flavour after years of foraging wild plants for restaurants and teaching people about what's in their own backyards.
56x14
Water into Wine
Episode overview
A Central Otago vineyard aims for a closed system in which all inputs come off its own land and are recycled back after the wine is made, so the only additional input is water.
56x15
The Deep Blue Sea
Episode overview
A Chatham Islands family creates an international seafood export business, despite the many challenges of living in such a remote island setting.
56x16
Leading the Way
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A young Manawatu woman juggles stock work on the family farm with breaking horses, dog training, tertiary study and working as a district councillor.
56x17
Large as Life
Episode overview
A Marlborough man harvests mussels for nutraceuticals and wild seaweed for natural fertilisers, and divides his time between the family rose nursery and his vineyard home.
56x18
Farming a Future
Episode overview
An Englishman with a dream creates an organic co-op of farms producing eggs, greens, meat and milk, proving a healthy agricultural footprint can create high end food for the masses.
56x19
Island Hills
Episode overview
Old and new go hand in hand on a rugged high country Canterbury farm as a family finds ways to diversify and make a living on a station that's now home to the fifth generation.
56x20
The Limery
Episode overview
A couple set up New Zealand's only lime juicing operation on their Wairoa orchard, a breakthrough that means they can expand the business and provide income for others in the community.
56x21
On the Rocks
Episode overview
A Central Otago couple turns their hands to distilling whisky and gin to complement the sheep, beef and cropping operations on their station.
56x22
Spice of Life
Episode overview
They're growing the world's most expensive spice, saffron, in northern Southland, where the quality of the sunlight makes for an almost perfect crop that's worth $50,000 a kilo.
56x23
Boxing On
Episode overview
A couple continues a family tradition of market gardening but branches out into home deliveries to bolster their business, harvesting a variety of crops year-round.
56x24
Late Pick
Episode overview
After growing avocados for three generations over 100 years, a family have perfected a new variety. Many who have sampled it predict it will become an international success.
56x25
Meat & Potatoes
Episode overview
The fourth generation of a Manawatū family grow potatoes on leased farms in the district and run cattle & sheep as well. Their business supports their local community and school.
56x26
The Hard Yards
Episode overview
A couple wanted to run their own business, so they decided to have a go at dairying and now sell their output, including raw milk, in glass bottles direct to consumers.
56x27
Going Bush
Episode overview
A couple quickly realised that parts of their new farm were too steep to graze stock easily, so they've planted the gullies in high-value native timber that can eventually be logged.
56x28
People in Glasshouses
Episode overview
A family-run horticulture business grows millions of capsicums a year in their vast high-tech glasshouse operation, in the most environmentally sustainable way they can.
56x29
Down With the Kids
Episode overview
A South Auckland farmer runs one of the country's largest goat operations, breeding from the best animals and milking thousands of dairy goats to create a new milk brand.
56x30
Salt of the Earth
Episode overview
A Rangitikei family on a coastal farm markets their sea-seasoned lamb to the world. They're also planting wetlands and pine forests to make the best use of their sandy soil.
56x31
Garden Bounty
Episode overview
A couple makes a living by growing, drying and selling a wide range of medicinal herbs, while also producing most of the food they and their family eat.
56x32
Truffle Buff
Episode overview
A couple harvests world-renowned Black Perigord truffles from their Nelson orchard where they live off-grid, and sells the sought-after fungi direct to chefs in Wellington and Auckland.
56x33
Yellow Fever
Episode overview
The COVID-19 lockdown means a couple growing daffodils can't sell their flowers at auction and the Daffodil Day event is cancelled, so they explore other ways to survive.
56x34
A Place for Penguins
Episode overview
A Banks Peninsula family raises cattle and exotic sheep on their historic farm, while working to make their land a haven for the little penguins that nest on the shore.
56x35
You Only Live Once
Episode overview
A sixth generation dairy farmer who lived with depression changes his focus to restore balance to his life, reconnect with his family and start a charity to help others.
56x36
Changing Times
Episode overview
A young couple moves their cows and their family to the King Country to run their own dairy farm and lead a more balanced life, also raising Angora goats for their mohair fibre.
56x37
Juiced Up
Episode overview
A couple buys an old citrus orchard and brings it back to life, growing oranges and juicing them for the local café market, and diversifying into new citrus varieties.
56x38
Slightly Wild
Episode overview
A Manawatu family farming bulls, sheep and crops, branches out into growing flowers. Their great soil grows beautiful blooms which they sell at the local market and direct to florists.
56x39
Comfort Zone
Episode overview
A couple manages an historic sheep and beef station on the wild Wairarapa coast, while also looking after the guests who stay at the luxury lodge on the property.
56x40
Blooming Christmas
Episode overview
A Central Otago woman builds on her experience running a tree nursery when she establishes a business growing Christmas trees for local families, along with lavender and peonies.