Over the fence: Jenny Lux’s market garden in Rotorua
There are many moments when market gardener Jenny Lux is struck by bolts of satisfaction about what she does for a living. But one of the most special is when…
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Common folk: the Waikato farm that wastes nothing
Tom and Carrie Andrews raise, process and sell their own meat in Cambridge, then turn the bones into jewellery and the skins into leather. A closed-loop farm where nothing is thrown away.
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Common folk: the Waikato farm that wastes nothing
Tom and Carrie Andrews raise, process and sell their own meat in Cambridge, then turn the bones into jewellery and the skins into leather. A closed-loop farm where nothing is thrown away.
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How to grow oyster mushrooms on gorse
Gorse is the plant most farmers curse. At PermaDynamics in Whangarei it has become a food crop. Frida Keegan shares the full method for turning a thorny weed into oyster mushrooms.
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The Otherworld: up close with fungi
I’ve dedicated a lot of my time to finding and photographing the unsung heroes of our living world, the pioneering architects that make it all possible: fungi. They’ve been on…
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The food forester: planting food forests in Northland
When James Runham revisits some of the food forests he’s planted around Northland, he’s often staggered by the transformation. What was once bare, straggly lawns and paddocks have been turned…
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Soul in the soil: inside a NZ biodynamic vineyard
At The Wrekin, a biodynamic vineyard in Marlborough, the rituals start with cow horns and manure When most people visit a vineyard, they’d probably expect to taste some wine, maybe…
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Plants and pasture: how to earn carbon credits on a farm
It probably won’t be news to many people that New Zealand farms are disappearing at an alarming rate and being replaced with pine trees (Pinus radiata). Given the poor returns…
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Fuel crisis looming: build a resilient community now
New Zealand imports 100% of its refined fuel. The ongoing Strait of Hormuz crisis has already voided supply contracts across the region, and with onshore stocks thin, the window for…
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Post and wire: how to make farm fence posts from your own timber
In 2020, Greg and Dansy Coppell were confronting a considerable financial dilemma on their 500-hectare farm in St Arnaud. Like many farmers, they needed to purchase materials to fence off…
