water
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
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
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.
Organic Food NZ
New Zealand's organic sector just hit $1.18 billion. Exports are growing at nearly double the rate of the wider primary sector. But buried in the same report is a figure that changes the story: a 78% collapse in new farm conversions. Here's what the data actually means for the domestic food system.
food security
Wattie's and McCain are closing. Marsden Point is rubble. The trams are gone. New Zealand keeps dismantling what works — and calling the rebuild progress. This needs to stop.
organic certification
The word "organic" has no legal protection in New Zealand. Here's what the certification marks actually mean, who issues them, and what sits outside the system entirely.
eggs
The egg aisle looks like healthy competition — eight brands, a range of prices, lots of welfare claims. Follow the ownership trails and it's more concentrated than it appears.
Food System
Wattie's has said "NZ's Favourite" since 1934. The company behind it has been American since 1992. This is the story of how brand trust gets bought, transferred and quietly spent — and why your KiwiSaver might be funding the whole thing.
water
What I found when I started researching rural water — and why it matters before you make the move.
water
What's actually in your water, what happens to it between the treatment plant and your glass, and why understanding that changed what I do about it.
water
Most Aucklanders assume their water comes from clean bush catchments. About 15 percent comes from the Waikato River — 400 kilometres through dairy farms, geothermal country, and industrial towns. Here's what that means.
Little Farms
A former solicitor, a no-dig garden, and eleven Wairarapa farms working together. Little Farms just aired on Country Calendar — here's everything you need to know.
