Organic Week Challenge
Did You Know? Some Facts About What New Zealanders Are Actually Eating.
70% of packaged food in NZ supermarkets is ultra-processed. Imports of ultra-processed food rose 550% in one generation. A few facts worth sitting with.
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Organic Week Challenge
You Only Have One Body.
You maintain your car. You insure your phone. But your body — the one thing you can't replace — what are you putting into it?
Organic Week Challenge
Do The Taste Test.
Buy one organic, one conventional. Same thing. Taste them side by side. Be honest about what you find.
Organic Week Challenge
You Take Supplements. But Is That Actually Food?
New Zealanders spend hundreds of millions on supplements every year. But what if those nutrients were just in your food?
Organic Week Challenge
Read The Label. Go On.
Not the front of the packet — that's marketing. Flip it over. Find the ingredients list. Read every single one.
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.
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.
