Our Land

It's time to sow new crops and encourage the last of the old ones.

Connect with local farmers and food producers at during this fun, family day out.

Why the tomato is this small-scale farmer’s greatest success

Angela Clifford shares wisdom from her family's organic, permaculture-based, self-sufficient small farm.

We hear a lot about nutritious superfoods but herbs pack a powerful punch too.

Time for your garden to say hello to the cooler weather.

Tinder for Employment – Ag Assist

One Canterbury dairy farmer was baffled by local university students not taking up the endless job opportunities around them, and shouted a group of them a beer to find out why. The result was ‘Tinder for farming’ Ag Assist, a platform built for Lincoln University students that is now attracting stay-at-home parents to highschool students with flexible part-time work at the click of a button.

A cloche provides protection for newly planted seedlings, keeping insects, pests and adverse weather at bay.

What started as a retirement dream grew into a passion project to nurture and protect a native forest for future generations.

Don't let that summer bounty of herbs go to waste.

Worm farming is one of the most rewarding ways of creating soil from food scraps and garden waste.

Culture farmer Nelson Lebo shares the practical ways he uses it on his 5.1ha block near Whanganui.

A world of fungi is transforming the soil in this self-sufficient garden.

A small vertical garden in a picture frame is easy to make and looks amazing.

Gardener and author Kate Wall shares the lessons she learnt restoring more than 150 flood damaged gardens in Brisbane in this special book extract.

Ride-on mowers are easy to use, but they’re also sophisticated pieces of machinery.

Leaving Auckland for a bare Taupō block prompted a young couple to build an unfussy life from total scratch, savouring every moment.

Ensure all plants — mature or wee seedlings— are healthy in the height of summer and reap the rewards later.

Riparian planting is not exclusively for natives. Fencing off your water’s edge provides the opportunity for a wide range of productive plants.

Climate change is the greatest challenge facing rural New Zealand. Here’s how simple planning and design can make your block more resilient to natural disasters.

An avid gardener has turned her passion for flowers into a unique block business that shares the love with everyone.

Flowers are the bright and bold stars of a garden, but grasses are the frame that can make them sparkle.

A Fresh Canvas – Stonehaven at Ruapuna

Transplanting some of the finest plants from a mature garden is never a task for the faint-hearted – lifting the root balls with a 20-tonne digger and transporting them nearly 40 kilometres to a new Canterbury garden takes the process to a whole new level of optimism and determination.

There’s very sweet corn and then there’s good corn.

It's the month for watering, sowing and keeping the garden groomed.

Those fluffy fronds on the side of the road may look pretty, but they are actually weeds.

The man who created one of the toughest endurance races in NZ is enjoying a marathon clean-up and new challenges on his Rotorua block.

This grid-driven method of gardening encourages high yield in a small space — wasting not a smidgen of soil.

This couple had to rethink how to put two hectares to good use when their soil was deemed too unstable for a factory.

Some people have dismal luck with eggplants, but warmth is the essence of a thriving crop.

Large, lacy, creamy white clusters of elderberry flowers are a pretty sight and a delicious find.

Two keen country gardeners share a friendly rivalry over flowers, foliage and finding ways to foil rabbits.

Biodiversity Among the Vines

While agricultural greenhouse gas emissions pricing has the longevity of farming sheep hotly debated in the efforts to meet our carbon targets, one Canterbury vineyard is using the animal New Zealand’s economy was built on to achieve their net carbonzero certification.

An infatuation for genus Rhododendron keeps a park budding with rare shrubs, hybridization and thousands of blooms.

The end of the year may be upon us, but there is still plenty to do.