Shawn McAvinue

An orchard in a peat bog is producing a bounty of blueberries in Western Southland. Shawn McAvinue talks to Blueberry Country orchard manager Kowie du Plessis about the intricacies of working with this spongy soil.

Basil Snow Cleaver is leaving the farm he has lived on for 14 years behind and heading for the hills with his packhorses to "go hermit".

"I’m going to load up a couple of packhorses and head into the hills and go hermit and have a good break."

Shawn McAvinue asks people at the Gore Spring Cattle Sale if they had to serve St Peter a cut of pasture-raised red meat to be considered entry to the Pearly Gates, what would it be and how would they serve it?

Shawn McAvinue was at the final yearling bull sale of the season in Norther Southland and found they'd kept the best for last.