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Organic NZ

September - October 2020
Magazine

Organic NZ is filled with info to live a healthier lifestyle - for you and the planet! Published by the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand, working since 1941 for sustainable organic agricultural and good health. Topics range from home garden to large-scale success stories; eco-building; urban organics; genetic engineering & chemical issues; food matters & natural health.

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Organic NZ

Back to basics

Your letters • Email: editor@organicnz.org.nz Post: PO Box 9693, Marion Square, Wellington, 6141.

Competitions • Be into win!

Organic Week Aotearoa 2020

AGM held by videoconference for the first time

Glyphosate campaign ready to go

To bee or not to bee?

Changes in the wind: small-scale producers respond

GE-free win for Northland

Vote & act for organics • How can our team of five million choose policies to enhance food and farming wellbeing, security and regeneration, and urge our MPs to enact them? Christine Dann offers ideas for voters to consider.

Organic dairying: A LABOUR OF LOVE • Suzi Phillips visits Alexander Organics near Cambridge – winners of the 2020 Organic Week Farmer of the Year award.

The new STEAM AGE

Conscious coffee • Mike Murphy of Auckland’s Kōkako Coffee Roastery is well known in the organic scene. He’s one of 28 New Zealanders and Australians interviewed in the new book Wild Kinship: Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs by Monique Hemmingson.

Plan for PLENTY • Diana Noonan shares her tips for tailoring your gardening and food sourcing to meet your household’s needs.

crazy about heirloom tomatoes • Minette Tonoli shares her passion and growing advice.

Multiply the INDOOR JUNGLE

Maramataka for Mahuru/Whiringa-a-nuku

Light and fresh recipes for spring

The power of healing with plants • Jan Mullin listened to her body and her intuition to heal from rheumatoid arthritis. This is her story.

Reduced tillage for organic matter • This is the fourth article in a series by Dr Tim Jenkins on maintaining and building soil organic matter. This time we look at the role of reduced tillage.

LAVENDER with altitude • On the Aoraki Mt Cook highway across the road from Lake Pukaki, 600 metres above sea level, a 20-acre mantle of striking purple creates a spectacular visual anomaly in the otherwise barren landscape. Theresa Sjöquist finds out why tourists stop the bus at New Zealand Alpine Lavender.

HOUSE OF earth and wood • Faith Gould visits a timber-framed adobe infill house in South Head, Helensville.

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Organic NZ is filled with info to live a healthier lifestyle - for you and the planet! Published by the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand, working since 1941 for sustainable organic agricultural and good health. Topics range from home garden to large-scale success stories; eco-building; urban organics; genetic engineering & chemical issues; food matters & natural health.

Kia ora e hoa mā!

Organic NZ

Back to basics

Your letters • Email: editor@organicnz.org.nz Post: PO Box 9693, Marion Square, Wellington, 6141.

Competitions • Be into win!

Organic Week Aotearoa 2020

AGM held by videoconference for the first time

Glyphosate campaign ready to go

To bee or not to bee?

Changes in the wind: small-scale producers respond

GE-free win for Northland

Vote & act for organics • How can our team of five million choose policies to enhance food and farming wellbeing, security and regeneration, and urge our MPs to enact them? Christine Dann offers ideas for voters to consider.

Organic dairying: A LABOUR OF LOVE • Suzi Phillips visits Alexander Organics near Cambridge – winners of the 2020 Organic Week Farmer of the Year award.

The new STEAM AGE

Conscious coffee • Mike Murphy of Auckland’s Kōkako Coffee Roastery is well known in the organic scene. He’s one of 28 New Zealanders and Australians interviewed in the new book Wild Kinship: Conversations with Conscious Entrepreneurs by Monique Hemmingson.

Plan for PLENTY • Diana Noonan shares her tips for tailoring your gardening and food sourcing to meet your household’s needs.

crazy about heirloom tomatoes • Minette Tonoli shares her passion and growing advice.

Multiply the INDOOR JUNGLE

Maramataka for Mahuru/Whiringa-a-nuku

Light and fresh recipes for spring

The power of healing with plants • Jan Mullin listened to her body and her intuition to heal from rheumatoid arthritis. This is her story.

Reduced tillage for organic matter • This is the fourth article in a series by Dr Tim Jenkins on maintaining and building soil organic matter. This time we look at the role of reduced tillage.

LAVENDER with altitude • On the Aoraki Mt Cook highway across the road from Lake Pukaki, 600 metres above sea level, a 20-acre mantle of striking purple creates a spectacular visual anomaly in the otherwise barren landscape. Theresa Sjöquist finds out why tourists stop the bus at New Zealand Alpine Lavender.

HOUSE OF earth and wood • Faith Gould visits a timber-framed adobe infill house in South Head, Helensville.

events and contacts

What’s on

Goods and services directory

Subscribe!


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