New Zealand food system
Three Months In. Here's What We've Been Finding.
It started with one exceptional strawberry. Three months later: fragile processing capacity, hidden supply chains, and quiet resilience in NZ's food system.
New Zealand food system
It started with one exceptional strawberry. Three months later: fragile processing capacity, hidden supply chains, and quiet resilience in NZ's food system.
Organic Food NZ
I started by turning over a butter packet. I ended up discovering a patchwork of farms, collectives, butcheries, and stores quietly trying to solve one of organic food's most stubborn problems — how do you get good food from a small farm to the people who actually want it?
Huckleberry Farms
For thirty years, Huckleberry Farms was the beating heart of organic food retail in Auckland. From a single Greenlane store in 1994 to twelve locations across the North Island, it built something the supermarket duopoly could never replicate. In June 2024, it was gone.
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