Country Calendar on TVNZ 6
Weeknights at 10.30pm on TVNZ 6
TVNZ 6 has encore screenings of some Country Calendar classics following a different theme each week.
Out Of The Ordinary
Tuesday 9 February
A city family takes on a new life raising free-range organic
eggs.
Wednesday 10 February
A Gisborne couple have discovered how to grow one of the
world's most valuable foods - the Perigord black truffle.
Thursday 11 February
A couple makes a living from just two cows by turning their milk
into high-value cheese.
Friday 12 February
In 1981 the van Kuyks arrived with their three young children to
take up a sharemilking position in the tiny Northland settlement of
Awarua.
Island Paradise
Monday 15 February
A look at the final muster on Mason's Bay, Stewart Island - the
Department of Conservation's only operational farm.
Tuesday 16 February
A look at the life of John and Briget Preece, who live on Pitt
Island, engaged in sheep farming and crayfishing.
Wednesday 17 February
The world's most advanced fisheries research ship Tangaroa surveys
Orange Roughy stocks on Chatham Rise.
Thursday 18 February
Ola and Dave Burling manage a farm on Arid Island, a small isolated
island off Great Barrier Island.
Friday 19 February
The Country Calendar team follow scientists on a Sub-Antarctic
expedition to study the unique plant wildlife and colourful history
of the Campbell and Auckland Islands.
Vintage Farming
Monday 22 February
A look at wine growers in Canterbury.
Tuesday 23 February
A profile of the Brajkovich family, a traditional wine
making family who live at Kumeu, West Auckland.
Wednesday 24 February
Country Calendar visits a large winery and a boutique
winery in the Barossa Valley, South Australia, to look at their
operation and how they perceive the NZ wine industry.
Thursday 25 February
A look at Millton's Vineyard, Gisborne, and the
biodynamic techniques employed by its owners James and Annie
Millton in their grape growing.
Friday 26 February
Verdun Burgess has created the world's southernmost
vineyard by hacking it out of the Central Otago rock.
Troubles on the Land
Monday 1 March
The first part of this story was filmed in March 1988,
looking at how Cyclone Bola had affected three farmers around
Gisborne. Country Calendar returned a year later to see how the
town was coping.
Tuesday 2 March
A report on the rabbit problem in the Mackenzie
Country.
Wednesday 3 March
A look at the devastation and after effects of the
Canterbury 1992 winter blizzards on the Inch family farm of
Hororata and the Hall family farm of Winchmore, Canterbury.
Thursday 4 March
The high country around Lake Wanaka was being devastated
by goats, so the Department of Conservation had to carry out an
aerial assault to control them.
Friday 5 March
A North Otago sheep farmer battles to save Five Forks
Farm after two years of drought.
Agri-Business
Monday 8 March
A look at a West Coast farmer who has diversified into
goldmining and deer farming.
Tuesday 9 March
Farmer's son Ewan Carr came back from America with a
dream. He is restoring and running a historic pub and a unique
building business.
Wednesday 10 March
A profile of Howard McGrouther who mixes farming a 200
hectare property with tapping the tourism potential of yellow-eyed
penguins.
Thursday 11 March
A couple who had spent most of their farming lives
managing large properties have bought 30 acres on the outskirts of
Masterton, where they run a flock of milking sheep and turn the
milk into cheeses.
Friday 12 March
A visit to Parkside: A crop farm, limestone quarry, and
mill, situated at Weston, south of Oamaru.
