by David Wrigley | Jun 15, 2023 | News
For the first time this year, the Food Price Index (FPI) shows a drop in the cost of fruit and vegetables as the country’s growers recover from a tough spell of weather-related challenges. United Fresh President, Jerry Prendergast, says the fall in prices for the...
by David Wrigley | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion
We tend to look at our backyards as unremarkable plots of soil. Good for growing a bit of fruit and veg, a few flowers if we’re fancy, a tree or two. Pakeha New Zealanders like me have a tendency to think of the land we live on as being a product of recent...
by David Wrigley | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion
In the latest in our series, brought to you by Everybird, we meet the couple behind Pinoli Pine Nuts, the award-winning novel nut farm from Nelson. One fateful day, Andrew Wiltshire was looking around a block of commercial pine forest near Nelson when a colleague...
by David Wrigley | May 26, 2023 | Opinion
New research from the University of Otago suggests that New Zealand teens are drinking less than they did twenty years ago. While binge drinking is still prevalent, alcohol is no longer seen by young people as a mandatory part of their social lives. Perhaps older New...
by David Wrigley | May 25, 2023 | News
Hawke’s Bay was today named a Great Wine Capital of the world, setting it alongside eleven other prestigious wine regions such as Bordeaux (France), Napa Valley (USA), Bilbao (Spain) and Adelaide (Australia). Admission to the Great Wine Capitals programme, as the...
