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There’s just one bean that can survive the worst of winter and can be planted through spring.

If weeds are springing up all over your freshly tended beds, there are a couple of easy, spray-free ways to beat them back.

If you need cucumber but don’t have any, this leafy herb is here to help.

A Nelson-Tasman conservation group encourages its youngest generation to love and protect a 120-kilometre coastline.

Fresh wasabi is a hot pick for the patient gardener.

Empty those winter beds and get started with (carefully selected) warm-weather crops.

A beauty therapist loves her new rural life while keeping up her work for a good cause.

The best way to increase the nutrients in the food you grow means a fundamental change in how you work in your garden, using some very special crops.

Microgreens provide fast-growing, highly nutritious mouthfuls of goodness.

Keep an eye on the pasture and young livestock as the weather starts to warm up.

Imitating nature to grow food seems like a good idea but creating a thriving food forest can be tricky.

It's time to start sowing a plentiful veggie garden.

Good equipment saves you time and money.

Mythological creatures live harmoniously in a fun-but-formal Italianate garden created by a pillar of the community.

Huw Evans bought a bundle of houseplants from Trade Me. They’ve grown into a passion that’s taking over his home, inside and out.

Thirty-three years ago, Hawi and Susann Winter decided to create a jungle of the most delicious kind.

To cement their partnership, Antonia de Vere and Mark Seeney got married. Now they combine their talents in one very creative business, Markantonia

Use data from a basemap to find the best places for fruit trees.

Don't let chilly weather stall progress in the garden.

It's a berry good time of year to plant these varieties in the backyard.

While cutting back a tree may seem counter-intuitive, pruning is an essential step to promote a fruitful harvest.

The best time to plant a tree is always today, but when it’s best to chop one down takes more consideration.

As temperatures tumble, the process of composting slows down, but it doesn’t stop altogether.

Many country driveways will worsen as they erode with use and time. Here's how to fix the most common problems.

Choose winter bloomers to add a pop of colour to your garden.

Hunting for truffles is not for the impatient or the olfactorily impaired. Success calls for a sniffer-out of buried bounty – in other words, a dog.

Twelve years ago, an enterprising couple started creating a permaculture food forest and perennial farm on a dusty, bare block in a dry Hawke’s Bay valley. Today, it’s unrecognisable.

Make the most of the chilly weather by growing hardy, nutritious crops.

Growing kits are an excellent way to get started with your first crop of home-grown mushrooms.

Kay Baxter and her family faced the biggest challenge of their lives in their quest to save New Zealand’s heritage seeds and fruit trees.

Creating a Garden of National Significance in the remote foothills of inland Otago with its extreme climate and heavy clay soil takes a body of strong bones, a will of iron and a soul of magic.

How to keep a lime happy, even in the cold.

The Krummenacher family business is based on an ancient and dynamic natural system that is going about its important business silently beneath their feet.

Mushrooms are so much more than their tasty flavour.