A New Zealand Food Story

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A New Zealand Food Story

Ben experiences the art of cheese making. He meets a capsicum producer and learns about the provenance of the onion.

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Season 3
Ben meets a gin maker, an Italian chacutier and celebrates a wine maker committed to the principles of sustainable farming. Ben milks sheep and learns how next generation farmers are diversifying their business.
Ben checks out a sustainably farmed green shell mussel farm and visits a peanut butter factory. He travels to Canterbury to meet an ostrich farmer and cooks ostrich for the first time ever!
Ben picks the 3 varieties. He meets a farmer and understands the benefits of grass-fed beef. Ben catches up with the Soil Sisters, a movement focussed on growing your own fruit and vegetables.
He discovers a peanut farm, meets tropical papaya fruit growers and catches up with a team of scientists cultivating kingfish like never before.
Ben's food story starts in the deep south where he learns why lamb tastes so good. He meets the earliest pioneers producing truffles and travels by helicopter into Fiordland in search of Wapiti.
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