As I’ve been working through organic staples, butter felt like a good one to understand properly. It’s simple, widely used, and surprisingly opaque once you start asking basic questions about where it comes from. One brand I see consistently in New Zealand is Organic Times butter. I buy
I didn’t set out to become obsessed with organic flour. I just wanted to know what was actually in my bread. When New Zealand moved toward mandatory folic acid fortification in bread, I went down a rabbit hole. What I learned surprised me: organic bread doesn’t have to
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This started as a practical problem, not a political one. I wasn’t trying to make a statement about food or health. I was simply trying to work out how to avoid something I hadn’t consciously chosen to consume — and discovered that it wasn’t easy. That led me
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I didn’t wake up one morning and decide to “go organic”. There wasn’t a plan. There wasn’t a belief system. There were just a series of small irritations that kept stacking up until I couldn’t ignore them anymore. At certain times of the year, I really