by Vicki Ravlich-Horan | May 31, 2023 | Opinion
It’s a miraculously sunny Monday morning and I’m standing in a field in Pukekohe. No, it wasn’t a crazy weekend gone awry, I have purposely turned off the motorway to be here. In fact, I love the chance to don my gumboots and quite literally get out in the field. ...
by Vincent Heeringa | Feb 2, 2023 | Opinion
As the backwash recedes on Auckland’s flood, the backlash begins. Pukekohe’s growers are some of the most affected – so who’s to blame when food goes to waste? It was heartbreaking this week to see piles of onions and potatoes, freshly...
by Wendy Voegelin | Feb 2, 2023 | Opinion
It’s not often in today’s consumer focused world that vegetables are delivered direct to your door or, in this case the footpath and road outside your home. While there is currently a shortage of onions due to uncertain weather conditions, this week residents around...
by Editor | Nov 24, 2022 | At Home
Handmade Tales – In the latest of our artisan series, Doris Neubauer meets Wendy Zhou, founder of Perfectly Imperfect. It was March 25, 2020, the first day of the national lockdown, when Wendy Zhou’s sister called. Eileen, who had given up her job as a...
