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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Homemade Wedding
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…
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Backyard Market
Every Friday evening, Oratia lifestyle block owner Anne Stone begins harvesting flowers from the garden her grandmother first tended 100 years ago. In another corner of the property, her youngest…
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A Call for Community
I witnessed the truly phenomenal power of food to bring people together during the aftermath of the Christchurch and Kaikoūra earthquakes. With local food supply chains severely disrupted, many businesses…
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Create and Gather
The rickety wooden gate on the roadside looks like it leads to nowhere. If you didn’t know what you were looking for, you’d miss it entirely. But once you’re beyond…
