West Coast - South Island

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What to look out for:

  • Trout fishing

  • Bush walks

  • Mountain glaciers

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Queen bee breeding - NZ Country Life story
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Categories:
  • The practice of bee keeping
  • Queen bee study
  • Sample honey products
  • Cup of tea and biscuit
     
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Inspired by their grandmother's offer to teach them the skill of breeding Queen bees two sisters took over the family's honey making business to breed a special species of Queen bee, more resilient against such diseases as Varroa mite. The sisters enthusiasm for bees was based on their admiration for this tiny insect with the ability of each one to collect up to a tea-spoon of honey in a lifetime. The sisters also saw what they were doing as helping to save the environment with bees being under threat and important to the world food economy.
Wetlands preservation
 
Categories:
  • The agri-science of wetlands
  • Land use option evaluation
  • Farm business study
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  • For more information about this story you visit TVNZ's TV on Demand archive at www.tvnz.co.nz
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A Southland couple grazed sheep for a living but their real interest had always been in reviving and protecting wetlands and in mitigating the effects of fertiliser run-off into a neighbouring lagoon. To do this they adopted a regenerative grazing practice by restricting sheep to the top one-third of the grass and retaining 100 ha of a 300 ha property in its natural state, a large wetland alive with waterfowl and fish life. A major economic benefit has been the improved shelter for sheep from the wetland's natural vegetation, particularly flax.