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Huge garden and native nursery to provide free food and jobs
An ambitious project to grow fresh food for the community is under way in Taupō.
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App promotes swapping and donating of home-grown fruit and veggies
A Hawke's Bay food trading platform is doing its best to fight rising costs and go global.
Opinion: Time to end the ag-sector procrastination
OPINION: Sustainability consultant calls on farmers to engage with climate mitigation.
Cost of living: The Warehouse expands fresh produce trial to five new locations
Chief executive Nick Grayston said the company is challenging NZ's grocery 'status quo'.
It’s time for frost covers to come out of the shed
Winter has well and truly arrived throughout the country
Lower inflation on food prices ‘a long way away’, economists say
Annual food price inflation is still close to 30-year highs.
The Herald's fruit & vege guide: This week's best value
Several root and good soup vegetables are on this week’s “best buys” list.
Bizarre new ingredient making it into icecream
Short on your five-plus a day? This new icecream may solve your problem.
Cheapest fruit and veggie to buy this week
Each week, United Fresh president Jerry Prendergast shares his top produce picks.
Cyclone aftermath a severe financial hit to T&G
Fruit grower T&G Global said Cyclone Gabrielle would hit its annual profit hard.
The Weekly Fruit & Veggie Guide: Best buys as food prices continue to rise
United Fresh recommends kiwifruit, mandarins, broccoli and some leafy greens.
Salad days: Family business gives Waverley lettuce farm new lease on life
The farm had its first harvest this week, with 10,000-12,000 seeds being planted weekly.
The Veggie Index: The best fruit & vegetables to buy this week
The lowdown on the best value veggies and fruit.
Fruit and vegetable best buys: Broccoli, cauliflower and mandarins
Cauliflower remains one of the best buys but price could rise next week.
Linda Hall: I’m glad I’m not an apple
OPINION: Let's give our produce the right to be ugly, and cheaper.
Māra kai in Whakatāne turns tamariki into cost-saving gardeners
High costs of living are driving the need for gardening programmes in schools.
Cost of food surges: Growers 'battling hard' to reduce fresh produce prices
Leaderbrand chief executive says fresh produce price hikes are not positive for growers.
‘It’s starting to smell pretty bad’: Growers reeling from lost crops and fields of ‘rotting kumara’
Northland kūmara growers are coming to grips with widespread devastation to their crops.
Cyclone Gabrielle: Fresh produce prices likely to rise, experts say
Consumers are likely to see fewe fruit and vegetables in supermarkets in the coming weeks.
Concerns weather disasters may drive food growers out of industry
Growers bearing the brunt of rising supply costs, fresh produce group says.
Flood wrecks crops, shoppers could face more inflation
Piles of onions pepper Pukekohe roadside after deluge, shoppers could face more inflation.
‘Never seen rain like that’: Farmers assess damage, tonnes of crops possibly obliterated
After an already tough summer, major farming and growing regions assessing new damage.
Hipkins' first day on the job, fruit & veg price drop & tanks sent into Ukraine | Focus Morning Bulletin: 26 January, 2023
Hipkins gets set to talk business, some good news on the way at the checkout and Western countries ramp up their support for Ukraine in the latest New Zealand Herald headlines. Video / NZ Herald