Country Calendar

Season 51

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Country Calendar is a television series covering rural life in New Zealand. Established in March 1966 and screening every year since, it is New Zealand's longest-running television series. It is currently being shown for 30 weeks of the year at 7 pm Saturdays on Television New Zealand's TV ONE, and older episodes are screened nightly on Sky TV's Heartland channel.

Where to Watch Country Calendar • Season 51

40 Episodes

  • Generous Legacy
    E1
    Generous LegacyA massive farm gives its profits away every year. The employees and the local Hawkes Bay community love the concept and the unique story of two pioneering sisters behind it.
  • A Rare Breed
    E2
    A Rare BreedA Hawkes Bay farmer throws his property open so local school-children can learn about the environment and one pupil discovers a rare and ancient worm.
  • Action Station
    E3
    Action StationA young family live life at high pace and with maximum laughter on their Gisborne stud farm. Sam Hain says every day alive is a blessing so he makes the most of it.
  • Just Kidding
    E4
    Just KiddingA couple start a new venture milking goats and making organic cheese after they get bored in their retirement. Theyre working harder than ever before, but they love their new role.
  • The Power of Whanau
    E5
    The Power of WhanauWhen a shearing family are turned down for a bank loan, they help one another to lease, then buy, a farm each. One couple has gone on to win a prestigious Maori farming trophy.
  • Starting Over
    E6
    Starting OverWhen a master horseman becomes a solo father, he has to re-think his career. He feels his added responsibilities have made starting wild horses too dangerous.
  • Liquid Gold
    E7
    Liquid GoldWhen Northland bee-keeper Blanche Murray started the Kai Ora Honey business a few years back, she had no idea it would soon turn into a global concern.
  • Spring in His Step
    E8
    Spring in His StepA 76-year-old ex-possum trapper still runs his remote sheep and beef farm with help from his grandkids. He and his wife have lived in the area for 50 years, raising six children.
  • Substantial Seas
    E9
    Substantial SeasA Hawke's Bay fisherman has re-invented the fishing net, to fish more sustainably. His success fishing with his steel cage innovation has fisheries staff keen to conduct trials.
  • Family Bred
    E10
    Family BredIn the heart of dairy country, a Waikato farmer is bucking the trend by raising sheep and beef cattle. He is also keen to leave greener pastures for his young family's future.
  • Queen of the Crop
    E11
    Queen of the CropHawkes Bay orchardist Mark Ericksen says picking the right apple to grow is just like backing race horses – you want to pick winners.
  • Family Matters
    E12
    Family MattersTwo generations of Chatham Islanders make a living from cray-fishing, farming and showing tourists around the islands they're grown to love.
  • Call of the Land
    E13
    Call of the LandA 17-year-old woman leaves school and opts to follow her dream to go farming. Louisa says everyone was surprised at first, but they now support her choice.
  • Love the Life
    E14
    Love the LifeA husband and wife farm with a love for each other and of the land. She's a city girl turned farmer, and together they breed horses, train working dogs and ride endurance.
  • To Feed an Island
    E15
    To Feed an IslandOn Great Barrier Island, a market gardening couple grow top-quality heritage fruit and veges using organic methods. They've had to be inventive and hard-working to survive.
  • The Whole Hog
    E16
    The Whole HogA couple expand their free range pig farm in Wairarapa with the help of Hong Kong backers, turning heritage breeds into pork much sought-after by chefs.
  • Outside the Square
    E17
    Outside the SquareWhat sort of farmer invites 10,000 people to a three-day party at their place every New Year?
  • Out the Back
    E18
    Out the BackOut the Back: A couple uses traditional draught horses for all their farm tasks on a Canterbury high country station. The horses pull the supply wagon for the team working the annual autumn muster.
  • Taking Charge
    E19
    Taking Charge
  • Mussel Bound
    E20
    Mussel BoundAs a young scientist, John Young began investigating if mussels could be farmed and 40 years later he's still on the water, leading New Zealand's second-biggest mussel farming company.
  • Autumn Harvest
    E21
    Autumn HarvestAn immigrant family perfects the art of growing feijoas and capsicums using natural biological methods. They see feijoas as New Zealand's next big horticulture export success story.
  • Learning the Land
    E22
    Learning the Land
  • Film Noir
    E23
    Film NoirActor Sam Neill has immersed himself in a second career, growing grapes and making wine in Central Otago. He believes his pinot noir will create a longer-lasting legacy than his films.
  • Riding High
    E24
    Riding HighA family welcomes tourists and walkers to their spectacular and remote inland Gisborne farm. They breed horses to work the steep terrain and also compete at riding events.
  • In Their Element
    E25
    In Their ElementA family work the wild waters around Stewart Island, chasing paua, kina and blue cod. They also run a surf school in Riverton, bringing surfing back to Southland.
  • Flower Girls
    E26
    Flower GirlsTwo women leave the city to grow peonies, discover the roots have properties that ease their children's skin problems, so they start a new venture selling peony soaps and skin balms.
  • Peak Production
    E27
    Peak ProductionA family in the Canterbury high country prepare for their annual deer auction, while entertaining trophy hunters from the USA, and being part of a traveling theatre troupe.
  • Cray Brothers
    E28
    Cray BrothersTwo brothers find success chasing crayfish off the wild Marlborough coast. They export them live, providing jobs for their small community, as well as farming beef and growing grapes
  • Maniototo Merino
    E29
    Maniototo MerinoManiototo Merino: A karate black belt's love of Japanese culture helps him secure a lucrative contract to supply his Central Otago ultra-fine merino wool to Tokyo suit manufacturers.
  • A Maturing Enterprise
    E30
    A Maturing EnterpriseA city couple move to rural Kaikoura, learn to farm goats and make their own award-winning cheese, which they sell to restaurants and from their own shop.
  • On Song
    E31
    On SongA Kawhia farmer hand-rears the offspring of sheep that give birth to as many as six lambs each. She also writes and records country music songs and traps possums.
  • The Long Game
    E32
    The Long GameA sharemilking couple work with Maori landowners to ensure their historic land is farmed sustainably. They send their milk to New Zealand's only Maori-owned dairying company.
  • Wet and Wild
    E33
    Wet and WildA conservationist leads teams of international student volunteers who are restoring one of New Zealand's most significant privately-owned wetlands south of Dunedin.
  • Changing Landscapes
    E34
    Changing LandscapesA couple moves from their island home in the Marlborough Sounds to take over managing a massive sheep station in the MacKenzie Country owned by a family of artists.
  • Lease of Life
    E35
    Lease of LifeTwo women farm a leased property in the foothills of the Ruahine Range, where they raise sheep and train working dogs, including animals given up by other farmers as useless.
  • Eight is Enough
    E36
    Eight is EnoughWhen their parents become too ill to work, the teenagers from a family of eight children take over running their North Otago orchard, to avoid having to sell the land.
  • Soggy Bottom
    E37
    Soggy BottomA couple turn their rough swampy land into the perfect place to run free-range heritage breed pigs, then start an on-farm butchery and kitchen, using traditional English recipes.
  • Fruit of the Soil
    E38
    Fruit of the SoilA father and daughter spend years working to create a successful truffle industry in North Canterbury and their dogs are finding increasing amounts of valuable black gold.
  • Generation Next
    E39
    Generation NextThe third generation on a North Otago high country station follow in their forebears' footsteps and continue the farm's tradition of innovation.
  • One Big Family
    E40
    One Big FamilyA West Coast woman who runs a dairy farm with a big emphasis on family life brings the same values to the team on the Landcorp farms that she also manages.

 

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