Country Life

This week Country Life heads to a basketball game to celebrate rural migrants, checks out the new tech at Fieldays and follows the journey of urban food scraps to a banana farm.

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In this episode:
0:00 - Rural News Wrap
8:41 - Galvbike: E-bike makers riding agritech wave at Fieldays
16:43 - Migrants give back to their communities
28:12 - From the Archives: City to Farm - how leftovers are giving back to the land
With thanks to:
Anthony Clyde
Guillermo and Christina Tolentino, Kristine Asuncion, Aline Ciron, Vincent Travasas and Edwin Patulin
Betsy Kettle, Phil Grainger, Jenny Grainger, Nick Wotton, Dylan Hatt, and Jill Clark
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Food scraps from retirement villages and schools are heping to nourish a banana orchard and other farms via the City to Farm project, which aims to keep organic waste out of landfill and help curb climate change. This story was first broadcast in July 2025.

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With thanks to:
Betsy Kettle, Phil Grainger, Jenny Grainger, Nick Wotton, Dylan Hatt, and Jill Clark
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Anisha learns how the rural Filipino migrant community has grown in the last 20 years - and watches some basketball.

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With thanks to:
Guillermo and Christina Tolentino, Kristine Asuncion, Aline Ciron, Vincent Travasas and Edwin Patulin
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Anthony Clyde, considered the godfather of e-bikes in New Zealand, has created a new electric farmbike that's proving a hit at Fieldays, the Galvbike.
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You can learn more about Galbike, here.
With thanks to:
Anthony Clyde
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A wrap of the week's news from RNZ's rural news team.

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