Nov/Dec 2018

Organic NZ

New Zealand’s organics and sustainable living magazine

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Look To The Stars
The rising of the star Aotahi (Canopus) signals the arrival of spring – warmer weather everywhere as our internal garden is nourished. We look to the stars as a reminder to give thanks to you all for your enduring support and understanding that we ar
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Too Precious To Trash
Are we listening to the Earth? She’s calling us to draw deep into the well of our moral courage, and change our lives for the better. The latest report on climate change again calls for immediate and radical action in all aspects of our lives: food p
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Your Letters
Email: editor@organicnz.org.nz Post: PO Box 9693, Marion Square, Wellington, 6141. I wonder if anyone has had experience of attempting to remove a jasmine invasion? Not realising quite how pernicious this stuff is in our Northland climate I rather ig
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Competitions
Win one of three Tui organic gardening packs! Spring is the perfect time to get your garden sorted. Nothing beats the taste of fresh seasonal vegetables harvested from your own patch, or the sweet scent of flowers blooming in your backyard. Gardening
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News
Limiting global warming to 1.5ºC of pre-industrial levels would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, according to the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Limiting global w
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HAPPY 35th birthday, BioGro!
David Woods was part of BioGro’s inception. He says there were three main organic groups in New Zealand in the early 80s: the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand led by Chris May, the Biodynamic Farming and Gardening Association led by John Pear
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From seed TO PLATE
How did you get into organics? I just don’t understand anything else, why we wouldn’t be taking care of the whenua in the best way that we can. It’s been important to me as I’ve grown into motherhood, to incorporate as many healthy things as possible
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WATER Is Life!
The catch-cry ‘water is life!’ is fast going mainstream, thanks to proliferating direct civic action and media attention in response to Aotearoa’s escalating freshwater state of emergency. This was spurred on by National’s gutting of the Resource Man
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A TEENAGE Vegan’s Garden
Vegans often face major practical challenges in finding quality organic vegetables. I am a 15-year-old vegan and organic vegetable gardener. Veganism is a way of living which excludes all forms of exploitation and cruelty to animals for food, clothin
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Grow Your Own Fast Food
I’ve always looked upon gardening as a bit of an investment. You commit a little money and devote a bit more time and expect it all to pay a handsome dividend – as long as nothing untoward happens to the ‘stock market’ in your garden. Perhaps it soun
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ORGANIC CONTROL OF Sooty Mould
A lot of people wonder what the black stuff is that they sometimes find on the trunks, branches, leaves and fruit of some garden plants and trees and also in some of our native forests. It’s called sooty mould, because of its colour, and is caused by
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Organic Control Of Leaf Curl Midge IN PIP FRUIT
The apple leaf curl midge (ALCM) and pear leaf curl midge (PLCM) are two different species of insect that are host-plant specific. They cause the same type of damage in each host: tightly curled up young leaves at the growing tips of shoots. Neither
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Moon Calendar For December
Note: Always consider your particular climatic conditions and the weather. Plant and sow the varieties most suitable for the time of year in your own location. Check with experienced local growers. Seeds germinate rapidly when sown one or two days be
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Healthy Food Save Time And Money
There’s no such thing as a typical work day for Nicola Galloway. She divides her time between developing recipes, writing a food column for a national audience, styling and photographing artisan food and offering her cooking workshops around New Zeal
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Nicola’s Top Tips To Save Time
1. Batch cook. Nicola’s husband makes a double quantity of her smoky chilli beans (dubbed ‘daddy beans’ in her home) and freezes dinner size portions. “Sunday night dinner is always sorted.”2. Cook extra so you can repurpose leftovers. Nicola always
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Recipes
(This recipe produces the most delicious sausages I’ve ever cooked. It’s a basic, everyday food made more nutritious and economical through being paired with pulses, vegetables and wholesome broth — RR.) Serves 4. Gluten-free, dairy-free. ½ cup (100
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RICH, Moist Christmas Cake
The original recipe for this Christmas cake came from Fiona Cairns, who made Kate and William’s royal wedding cake. I first adapted it in my baking book, Love, Bake, Nourish, and this is my second incarnation. I was a food stylist on her TV show, and
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Love Your Lymph!
It’s been a rough few months. One minute disgustingly healthy, the next I was diagnosed with an aggressive cancer. By the time I was operated on six weeks later the cancer had spread, necessitating the removal of four lymph nodes during surgery. Disc
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RENAISSANCE Herb Lore Alive And Well
Founded by Sandra Clair, one of New Zealand’s most qualified plant-medicine experts, Artemis helps people deal effectively with common health complaints. “I’m a practitioner at heart, so it’s essential that people experience tangible relief,” Sandra
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CEO Moves On As OANZ Restructures
Organics Aotearoa New Zealand (OANZ) is restructuring the organisation, and CEO Brendan Hoare is moving on to focus on his own organic marketing, trade and organisational development business. OANZ will not replace the position when Mr Hoare’s contra
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How To Read A Soil Test
You want to understand your soil better. You’ve taken random samples from your chosen paddock, and bundled the bag off to the lab. Some days later, the result arrives: a page of numbers and maybe a graph or two. But what does it all really mean? Most
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Organic Milk Begins To Flow At Awarua
It’s one of the furthest places on earth - open plains of lush, green pastures and home to Open Country Dairy, Awarua, where huge things are about to happen. The calendar has a ring around November 18, the day tankers will deliver the first supply of
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NEXT-LEVEL Pasture Management
Are you a farmer worried about competition from fake meat? Would you like to earn more profit from your farm? Would you like to see healthier animals and reduce veterinary costs? Are you concerned about the environment? If I told you I had a silver b
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Next-generation Solar Hot Water
Domestic solar hot water systems have been in use for well over a century. The first simple systems appeared before 1900, and improvements and refinements took place throughout the twentieth century. For all that time the basic concept remained the s
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Book Reviews
Karen Fischer (Exisle Publishing, 2018, RRP $34.99) This book features lots of delicious recipes and stylish photos, but that’s just the half of it. Karen Fischer cleared her own dermatitis and her daughter’s eczema primarily through diet, and became
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Things We Like
Plastic-free, here and now! The new shampoo and conditioner bars from KoruKai are packaged in biodegradable boxes made of recycled cardboard. In addition, they’re now taking containers back to wash and reuse. There are two KoruKai shampoo bars: Hydra
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Working For A GE-free Organic NZ
In August we presented to the Environmental Protection Authority in Wellington, opposing an application to import ethanedinitrile (EDN) into New Zealand as an alternative to the fumigant methyl bromide, which is used for export logs and timber at New
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Soil & Health events And Contacts
The Soil & Health Association – publisher of Organic NZ – has groups that meet in different parts of the country. These meetings and field days are wonderful ways in which to meet fellow gardeners and growers, and other people interested in healthy s
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Goods And Services Directory
This directory is your guide to a range of goods and services that are either certified organic, or supply organic products. • Certified organic goods, services or businesses are marked: ✓• Non-certified producers are included on the implicit expecta

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