Vegetables
How to store fruit and vegetables for minimum waste
Food wastage in New Zealand is difficult to quantify or break down into fresh produce wastage, but a study by love food hate waste suggests only 5% of households have no avoidable food waste. Dr Jenny… Audio
Garden bacteria can combat anxiety and depression
Professor Chris Lowry from Colorado University is part of a team of scientists who have uncovered a bacteria found in soil which can help combat anxiety and depression. Audio
Ohakune winter veges - everything but the carrot
Steph Rollinson runs Snow Country Gardens ltd with her husband Bruce, in Ohakune, where they grow parsnips, Brussels sprouts, swede and kallette, supplying supermarkets, soup pack providers and other… Audio
Paddock to Plate
Chefs at Waimauku's The Hunting Lodge can be found digging, weeding and harvesting in the huge permaculture garden just across the driveway from the kitchen. The Hunting Lodge now grows about 60… Audio
Plants don't like the human touch, study finds
Researchers suggest a look and don't touch approach to your vegetable garden this summer, after finding touching plants can stunt their growth.
Eat your greens!
Weeks of warm, wet weather in the Pukekohe district has lead to a glut of vegetables. Growers are getting as little as 30 cents per head of broccoli. Audio
The market gardening couple flourishing in Sefton and on social media
Cam and Melissa Booker grow more than 30 varieties of fruit and vegetables at their market garden in North Canterbury. All the produce, as well as apples from the family orchard in Motueka, is sold at… Video, Audio
European Farming Insights
Former RNZ Rural News reporter Alexa Cook is travelling through Europe with her boyfriend. She tells Cosmo about the farming observations she has made in Portugal and southern Spain. Audio
The farmer and the filmmaker
Converting to organics has been a rewarding challenge for filmmaker and farmer Gaylene Barnes and her brother Andrew. They grow vegetables commercially on the family farm at Highbank in Canterbury… Audio, Gallery
Big Fig Roasted Veg Fattoush
Recipe by Chrissie Lahood
From Nine To Noon on Monday 30 April 2018
Vegetable prices grow as weather takes its toll
Some vegetable growers are losing more than $100,000 a week as the wet and humid weather rots crops, driving prices up. Vegetables such as cauliflower have jumped up to $10 a head. Audio
Pakaraka Permaculture
Niva and Yotam Kay grow vegetables on just 1000 square metres of land in the Kauaeranga Valley and last year produced a staggering 8 tonnes of vegetables from it. They say they can do even better. Audio, Gallery
Growing Greens
Spring Collective is a co-operatively run organic market garden. A year ago Penny Sewell, Dominique Schacherer and Logan Kerr pooled their resources, secured an eight hectare block in Leeston and… Audio
The Long Island Vegetable Orchestra
Music is great. But what if it could be nutritious as well? Simon Morton speaks to Daniel Battaglia, Music Director of the Long Island Vegetable Orchestra, about turning tubers into music makers. Audio, Gallery
Recipes from an English garden
New Zealander Aaron Bertelsen is head vegetable gardener and cook at The Great Dixter – a historic house and garden in East Sussex. He talks about the value of good soil and shares a fennel and a kale… Audio
Wet weather tests veggie growers' green thumbs
One of Horowhenua's wettest winters has left commercial vegetable growers with waterlogged soil and failed crops.
The Science Of... Vitamin C
What is vitamin C and why do we need it? Which foods have the most vitamin C? Should we pop pills when we think we're getting a cold, or are we just producing expensive urine? And can vit C really… Video, Audio
Double Dutch
Karin Bos and Tineke van de Heide – registered nurses originally from the Netherlands – are living the dream on a farmlet in Banks Peninsula. Audio
Vegetable shortage could continue for months
A nationwide shortage of vegetables may last for several months after crops were destroyed in recent flooding. Video, Audio
Rebecca Lees - Incredible Edibles
They have runnerbeans growing up the side of a police station in Canterbury, and if you pick them you won't get arrested. They're there - like many of the fruit and vegies growing in Geraldine - for… Audio, Gallery