This week Country Life dives underground to take a closer look at soils, from Canterbury farmers using the Japanese Bokashi system to a market gardener making garden beds as rich as chocolate cake in Taranaki. We also unpack the recently announced biodiversity credits.

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In this episode:

• 0:48 - Rural News Wrap
• 5:52 - Dollars for nature - a look at biodiversity credits
• 17:51 - Bokashi by the Tonne - Farmers turns waste into natural fertiliser
• 31:30 - Roebuck Farm: Where the garden beds are rich 'like chocolate cake'

With thanks to guests:

• Sean Weaver, Ekos
• Hayden Johnston
• Tim Hawke and Murray Weaver
• Jodi Roebuck, Roebuck Farm

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Over the past 20 years, Jodi Roebuck and his wife Tanya have turned a bare paddock into a thriving market garden with an emphasis on microgreens, teachers others from around the world how to do the same.

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You can learn more about Roebuck Farm, here.

In this episode:

• 0:19 - Roebuck Farm
• 3:26 - Cover crops
• 7:04 - Microgreens
• 14:19 - Wash and pack

With thanks to:

• Jodi Roebuck

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Bokashi, the Japanese anaerobic composting system which ferments organic matter, is helping to maintain healthy soils on a sheep and dairy grazing farm in North Canterbury.

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With thanks to:

• Tim Hawke and Murray Weaver
  

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