Why Eat Organ Meats?
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…
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Sacred Seeds
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…
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Goat Firefighters
Fires burned over 700,000 hectares of Europe during the northern summer of 2022 – an unenviable record. Individual fires peaked at over 2,300 – far above the 15-year running average…
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Reel Life
There aren’t many New Zealand lifestyle block owners who have gained 80,000 followers on Instagram by posting about their animals. But Ruby and Tristan of Mānuka Valley Farm know what…
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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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Mātauranga Permaculture
When Rina Walker started her iwi’s permaculture garden project on whānau land, a contractor had been growing maize there for 16 years. What was left behind in the ground was…
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Passive Potential
If there were an ideal scenario for a passive income on a lifestyle block, it would probably look a little like this: you do a very small amount of work,…
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Free Rangers
In June 2023, high above the icy waters of Lake Wakatipu, a 10-tonne truck heaved and huffed its way along the windy cliffside road, a family’s entire life strapped to…
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Tips for first-time pig owners
YOU NEED AT LEAST TWO PIGS There are three reasons why you may wish to have pigs: • as pets;• to process them for meat such as pork, bacon etc;•…
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Chickens and gapeworm
When NZ Lifestyle Block reader Martin saw his Araucana hen Goldie gasping for breath, making funny rasping noises and shaking her head, he thought she might be thirsty. The only problem was,…
