On today's podcast, REX host Dominic George talks to Meg McFarland ahead of the annual Hurunui Garden Festival. Hamish McKay presents another edition of 'Hamish's Heroes', this week he chats with Gisborne farmer Kim Mossman who's rebuilding his sheep and beef farm after Cyclone Gabrielle. And Dom has a chat with Lone Star Farms scholarship winner Kayla Calder from Caberfeidh Station in the Hakataramea Valley.

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