Organic NZ

Organic NZ is filled with info to live a healthier lifestyle - for you and the planet! Published by the Soil & Health Association of New Zealand, working since 1941 for sustainable organic agricultural and good health. Topics range from home garden to large-scale success stories; eco-building; urban organics; genetic engineering & chemical issues; food matters & natural health.

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Things we like • Cool stuff we’ve enjoyed this summer

Seaweed Bounty of the sea • Nutrients and minerals from the earth’s crust flow into the sea and are absorbed by seaweed. Duncan Smith outlines the benefits of closing the loop and bringing seaweed back into your food chain.

Common types of edible

New developments with seaweed

Benefits of seaweed

Underwater kikuyu

Growing good food Seasonal gardening tips and tasks • Using a range of techniques, from permaculture to French intensive, Diana Noonan grows an extensive variety of nutritious, healthy, food for her family. She shares practical and proven advice on growing, harvesting and storing the goodness from her garden in The Catlins, Southland.

Help your harvest

Welcome the birds!

Biocontrol natural pest management • Nature is an ongoing war. A battle for survival, for dominance, and resources. ‘Pests’ are when one species are winning and are having a detrimental effect on our desired outcome. Charles Merfield explains how we can change the balance and allow nature to regulate itself.

GROWING THE HOLY TRINITY

Maramataka - Moon calendar

Amazing Azolla • It is the ultimate fertiliser for your garden. It is free, only needs a bucket of water, removes greenhouse gases, fixes nitrogen, and enriches your soil. Sheryn Dean describes a simple and sustainable biofertiliser.

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Hazels A nut worth cracking • Hardy hazels are well suited to organic growing in New Zealand, and the nuts are nutritious and versatile. Philippa Jamieson profiles Otama Hazels in Southland as an example of a successful small block and looks at the opportunities for more growers to enter the market.

Hazel cultivars

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Recipes

Be good Plant-based recipes for everybody • Auckland-based Buffy Ellen Gill used food and self-care to cure her Grave’s disease and overcome disordered eating. She shared her discovery of nutrition and natural medicine online under the name Be Good Organics and shares here some of the 100 recipes in her first book.

Mending with mushrooms MEDICINAL FUNGI AT ORA’S FARM • Lion’s Mane, Turkey Tail, Piopinno, Enoki, Shiitake. Intriguing names for delicious mushrooms that science is revealing are beneficial to our health. Crispin Calidicott talks to two growers who are excited about their therapeutic potential.

Post-COVID fatigue • Chronic fatigue has been around for a while, and there is renewed interest due to one of the main triggers being viral infection. It might be too soon to tell, but the recent outbreak of COVID-19 could be a trigger. Holistic nutritionist Laura Hett looks at what we know about chronic fatigue.

Borrowed BEAUTY • You don’t need land to have a garden. Nor capital to start a business. Diana Noonan finds out from an innovative artist how she turned her life around to create a satisfying organic lifestyle and income - without land or start-up capital.

Esther’s tips for gardening on borrowed land

Health rules THERAPEUTIC PRODUCTS BILL • Natural health products are included in the Therapeutic...