Everyday I trawl through articles about local food. There is a lot of noise and a lot of the information is repeating itself. But then I realise that not everyone trawls through this stuff so I figure I might as well post an article that summarises what pretty much everyone is saying.

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We were in Brisbane last week visiting my brother Geoff when I noticed that Stephanie, my sister-in-law, had started planting food gardens around the edge of their swimming pool.

Over winter they had also let the

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The New York Times have kindly published letters to the editor

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As a young lad we didn't have a flush toilet, we just had a pan. Dan-the-Pan-Man would turn up at around 3am on Wednesday mornings and sneak past the sleeping dog to collect our weekly deposits.

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Stepping out into winter temps of 30 degree heat from the airport at Nadi, Fiji, I now understand why we see so much of their product in NZ.

I was told they can get 3-4 growing seasons out of most veg and tabacco which they seem to be planting al

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Jim O’Gorman, founder of the sustainable gardening organisation Dirt Doctor and one of the 10 visionary kiwis featured in documentary film 'Earth Whisperers', will be the

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Meet a family who achieved what most people would think impossible in a big city. On less than 4,000 square feet of land in the heart of Pasadena, California, the Dervaes family gets all the food they need from their own backyard. This family of farmers grows 400 varieties of vegetables, fruits, greens and edible flowers and also raises their own livestock.







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