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While an art career started as an off-piste dream, young creative Ema Frost couldn't shake the feeling that art had chosen her.

New Zealand minds are behind a new biodegradable tree guard and recyclable, lightweight batten system.

Marlborough-made bitters are making waves in the cocktail world, and their creator is just getting started.

Brooke and Maggie Noonan left jobs at Auckland Zoo to build an off-grid, eco-friendly house in the Far North. And they struck oil.

A creative and artistic grandmother’s blue-toned gift is one that keeps on giving.

Evicted from their farm in Zimbabwe, a family’s fresh start in Havelock North has brought freedom, and an opportunity to pay it forward.

Businessman Scottie Chapman was told: ‘No one wants that product.’ It was music to his ears

A tiny house that includes upcycled parts of a state home is the first step towards sustainable living for an Auckland couple.

In Hackland, the grown-ups learn the same way kids do - by trying new things and having fun.

Mass murder at mosques in Christchurch on Friday targeted Muslim New Zealanders at worship. Here are some things you can do to support a devastated community.

Of all of the scenes set decorator Megan Vertelle has crafted into reality, her patchwork Piha villa is the one that steals the show.

The park ranger reflects on the past, present and future protection of Auckland’s Waitākere Regional Park.

From the moment she was baptised Mary Dominica, Mary Horn was on a path to a convent. Her call to be an artist came much later — at nearly 60.

Dogged determination helps restore the DIY mana of a west Auckland pastry chef, and creates the ultimate city retreat.

A Wellington-based painter’s pop-surrealist works are finding favour among art buyers captivated by the subversive cuteness of her creatures.

Kiwi actor Nicola Kawana feels her life is nicely balanced between roles on the stage, in film, and her work as a gardener.

A workshop, once bursting at the joists with a lifetime of useful things, is reworked into an exceptional holiday home.

Could making your own larder staples, cleaning products and beauty creams really be a simpler, healthier way of life?

Making sense of the past has allowed a Kaiteriteri couple to shape the future — titiro whakamuri, kōkiri whakamua. Now they are paddling forwards and taking others with them.

Sally Maguire’s dog knew a thing or two when it introduced its owner to the love of her life, Helmut Hirler. They walk us through their beautiful home and art gallery, 'Artmosphere' .

The vast majority of Kāpiti Island is a nature reserve. But 20 hectares of the iconic island is privately owned by a whānau dedicated to preserving their whakapapa — including the land and everything upon it — and sharing it with the world.

Possibly the most authentic Corolla in the country rocks the socks off its 28-year-old owner.

Hannah O’Neill is thriving in the fifth year of a lifetime contract with one of the world’s premier ballet companies.

If you’re a romantic at heart, turning your land into a wedding venue might be an opportunity to earn some extra cash.

Most people avoid getting into hot water, but the creator of a Coromandel resort spent two decades, and many millions of dollars, drilling for it.

A 1926 Grade II Historic Place-listed concrete milk station is seeing a new life as a spectacular Otaki wedding venue.

One man’s vision for protecting an unspoiled Coromandel Peninsula is shared by family and friends who count themselves lucky to holiday there.

Meet the scuba diver on a mission to clean up Wellington’s ocean floor.

When Sam met Jess on a ski field in Turkey, neither guessed they’d end up running a yacht-support business together in Vanuatu.

The only human residents of a thriving Great Barrier Island wildlife sanctuary are fiercely protective of their native neighbours.

Hilarious hula-hooper Toni Smith brings her international street performance routines home for Bread and Circus, the World Buskers’ Festival in Christchurch from January 10 to February 3.

Yvonne Sutherland has been firing and painting hens for more than three decades and collectors around the world obviously adore them as much as she does.

It takes a village to create a thriving business for one Southland couple. Or in this case, several very small villages, a railway, and a real church.

While her knowledge of soap-making was limited, she had already studied essential oils through a correspondence course which proved useful for what has turned out to be Clean Earth Soap.