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16 feijoa varieties to plant for your ideal harvest time
Plan your feijoa season ahead of time by selecting the ideal variety for your garden.
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4 hearty winter vegetables to grow in pots
Some well-placed pots can bring a cold-weather harvest to any small garden.
7 gardening tasks for a bountiful (and beautiful) winter
It's time to get ahead of your cold-weather harvest and flower garden.
Have you heard of these unusual edible perennials?
In just 12 years, permaculture gardeners Jo and Aaron Duff have transformed a dusty, bare block into a perennial food forest including some unusual edibles you might never have heard of.
This Wairarapa woman transforms her garden into a living church
A creative woman on a beautiful farm branched out beyond her flower-free, well-hedged garden to plant herself a business. It’s growing divinely.
5 orchard lessons from a fruit-poor orchardist
This time of year should bring bountiful fruit, but not in this orchard.
9 ways to add nutrition to your meals with microgreens
Microgreens are an easy way to add homegrown nutrition to breakfast, lunch and dinner.
"Growing food and helping others is inspiring to me”
Shannon Wright has turned a passion for nutrient-rich food into a growing business of goodness.
12 breathtaking views from high-country stations and farms around New Zealand
Whether it's sunshine slicing through snow-capped mountains or sheep trundling down a hillside, there's an undeniable magic to the rural corners and peaks of New Zealand.
4 things to know about rural fires
Being 'fire aware' can make all the difference for protecting your property.
What your soil is trying to tell you
March is a good time to do soil testing, and apply fertiliser and lime. But do you know what your soil is telling you?
The benefits of hosting volunteers on your block
Volunteer schemes are not a way to get things done for free around your block, but Sheryn has still found it very profitable.
March gardening checklist: Plant broccoli seedlings, add compost to soil
Plant plenty of cruciferous seedlings now for an abundant winter harvest.
7 garden tips for bountiful winter harvest
Growing an abundance of fresh food during winter may sound difficult, but it is possible, even in colder regions.
A New Plymouth gardener profits from his 1000sqm veggie patch
On a block this small, this New Plymouth gardener only grows the most efficient vegetables for his bottom line.
10+ tips for making a profit off your lifestyle block
Can you make a living from your lifestyle block? Give up your day job and lead the good life? Yes. But.
10+ lessons from the worst forest fires in NZ
In the soot-covered aftermath of the Nelson fires, we look at how lifestyle block owners can best avoid the ravages of fire.
How this couple turned their block into a small-scale market garden
When red-hot chilli fans Steve and Anne Corkran got burned by big business marketplaces, they decided to go direct to their customers and turned their block into a thriving market garden.
20+ things you need to know if you're on tank water during a drought
Forecast rain might be a welcome relief for tank water users across the parched North Island, but now they should be wary of contamination.
A couple turns their berry-pickin' hobby into a 6-ha blueberry orchard
What was once a silly dream has been whipped into a business churning out refreshing blues.
This is the pungent secret to Mexican cooking
A pungent herb with a unique flavour is the secret green in Mexican cuisine.
How to keep your flowers blooming through summer and beyond
Careful planning can keep the garden colourful for another year.
7 gardening tasks for February: Harvest herbs, sow swedes and turnips
Gardening never stops — especially in the height of summer.
How to deal with an abundant elderberry harvest
The problem with this invasive weed is that it's so delicious.
How Crete beans made their way to NZ in the name of love
Every seed has a story, and some are sown with love.
Michael Van de Elzen returns to his rural roots with a lifestyle block in Muriwai
Chef Michael Van de Elzen is creating a block where everything is grown and cooked from scratch.
Why you should harvest fennel pollen (and how to do it)
One foodie describes it as the spice an angel would sprinkle from its wings.
9 garden tips for January: Protect tomatoes, sow beetroot
Keep the garden cool and moist is just the beginning this summer.
The challenges of making NZ predator-free
Are wild deer and cats pests? A new report says getting people to agree on what biodiversity is, and how to control pests is going to be critical if NZ is to be predator-free.