Organic Week Challenge
Go To A Farmers Market. Even If You've Never Been.
Most of us drive past them. We see the signs, we mean to stop, and then we don't. Today that changes.
Luke Nicholas
Organic Week Challenge
When Did You Last Actually Choose What You Ate?
Most of us have a trolley that looks the same every week. Did you choose it — or are you just repeating?
Organic Week Challenge
The Organic Week Challenge starts tomorrow.
No lectures. No guilt. Just ten questions worth sitting with. The Organic Week Challenge starts tomorrow.
Organic Week Challenge
Ten Days. Ten Challenges. One Question Underneath All Of Them.
Not about certifications. Not about saving the planet. About you. About why you eat the way you eat. Starts Friday.
Organic Week Challenge
The Organic Week Challenge — Are You In?
Organic Week starts Thursday. This year we're not pointing you at the webinar schedule. We're asking the questions nobody else is asking.
Organic Food
What "Organic" Actually Used to Mean
In 1940, a shy English farmer coined the word "organic" to describe something specific — a farm as a living system. Eighty years later the word is on everything. The idea is harder to find.
Food System
When NZ Stopped Canning Its Own Peaches
Hawke's Bay orchardists are pulling peach trees out of the ground after Wattie's cut their contracts. Behind it: Chinese dumping, Kraft Heinz's global logic, a trade relationship NZ can't afford to challenge, and what happens when food processing infrastructure disappears for good.
Organic farming
Chanel Buys Into NZ's Largest Organic Farm
A French fashion house just bought into a Central Otago high country station. Lammermoor has been certified organic since 2002, produces fine wool for Chanel garments, and runs one of NZ's rarest distilleries. Here's why this deal matters beyond the headline.
water
What fluoride is doing in your tap water
Fluoride in your tap water is a medical intervention delivered without consent. Most of Europe said no. New Zealand said yes — by government directive, later found by courts to have inadequately considered the right to refuse medical treatment.
water
"I'm scared to drink RO water" — Remineralise
The bone-leaching fear is unfounded. But once you start asking what RO removes, a bigger question opens up — what's being added to your water supply, where it comes from, and what your filter actually does for you.
organic farming NZ
When Fonterra Goes Organic, Something Shifts
Fonterra's South Island organic expansion looks like an export play. And it probably is. But when NZ's largest dairy co-op puts real infrastructure behind organic farming, something shifts for the whole sector. Here's what caught my attention — and the question it leaves open.
chlorine tap water
Does Chlorine in Tap Water Affect Your Gut Microbiome?
Chlorine is in your tap water to kill pathogens. The question researchers have started asking is what it does once you drink it. The answer is genuinely unsettled.
