Kiwi-born farmer, Ian Rew, has launched a new ground-breaking, BioGro certified organic chitin-based product for growers in New Zealand, named Flamingro, which has been proven to increase plant root mass…
When my wife and I first told friends and family that we were about to put an impulsive offer on a block of bare, coastal land in the Waikato, they…
If there were an ideal scenario for a passive income on a farm or lifestyle block, it would probably look a little like this: you do a very small amount…
In spring 2022, six months before she was to host her daughter’s wedding on her Nelson property, Rachel Brydon started growing flowers. She began by digging up the border of the…
In 2018, when David Thorpe decided he wanted a break from managing his elderly parents’ farm, he, his siblings and their spouses put their heads together to come up with…
I grew up in a nature-loving (yes, hippy!) family on a large property overlooking my hometown of Raglan. My parents grew much of what we ate, without the use of…
It’s relatively uncommon for someone to upgrade from a five-acre property to 50 acres. But Rochelle and her husband Mike knew exactly what they wanted to do with the extra…
Growing up in an Iranian family, our table was often laden with dishes containing all manner of organ meats. Liver, heart, kidney, tongue – these are commonplace in Persian cuisine, exquisitely…
I always had a garden. Even when I was a young child; when I was at university, while I was flatting, travelling and living overseas. But I do not always…
