Tag: Australasia
Growing Vegetables Is Easy, But Also Hard
Starting your own garden can be a cheap and easy way to feed your family, but it's not as easy as it sounds.
New Zealand's Edible Landscapes Architect, Shai Brod says carbon and nitrogen are the key ingredients for making good compost and soil for growing food. "It doesn't have...
School Closes Canteen and Now the Children Choose Broccoli
Auckland primary school children are growing their own vegetables - and actually want to eat the fruits of their labour.
Lincoln Heights Primary School in Massey closed its canteen late last year, and now students grow their own healthy food. The school garden had vegetables like broccoli, tomatoes, beans, bok...
The Astonishing Scale Of Food Waste
There is one statistic in particular that might make us think when it comes to tidying up after the festivities: roughly one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption gets lost or wasted every year.
At the same time, 795 million people around the world were...
Vertical Farming As A Solution To Urbanisation
A New York-based sustainability strategist, Henry Gordon-Smith, said more and more young people were attracted to vertical farming.
Vertical farming is producing food on vertically stacked layers, or in high rise buildings, rooftops, glasshouses, warehouses, or shipping containers.
He said it was becoming increasingly popular in countries such as the United...
Exploring an Alternative Dairy Farming Model in New Zealand
Earlier the farmer owner could make an income without having to milk cows every day and the young farmer could make a good income and save the surplus. After about 10 years, the sharemilker was in a position to buy a small farm.
Today, just to get onto the sharemilking...