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Organic NZ

July - August 2020
Magazine

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.

Build kindness & forge new alliances

Organic NZ • Soil & Health Association of NZ Inc

Breathe and contemplate

Your letters • Email: editor@organicnz.org.nz Post: PO Box 9693, Marion Square, Wellington, 6141.

Things we like

Competitions

Organic Bill rewrite coming

More diverse crops touted for NZ

Organic Week award winners

GE Free Northland appeal for funds

NZ organic deodorant wins Canadian award

New branding for AsureQuality

EU recovery plan includes organics

Regenerating AOTEAROA • A billion dollar investment in regenerative agriculture – imagine that! Gen Toop reports on Greenpeace’s proposal to the Government.

Health is OUR WEALTH • Health is said to be the greatest wealth. We have the ideal opportunity to grow New Zealand’s natural health sector as part of a clean, green, post-Covid-19 recovery plan, writes Sandra Clair.

Happy HOUSEPLANTS

The winter chook needs and feeds • Pam Adam offers tips for newbie chook keepers to prepare for a new flock, and for old hands to brush up on chook health and optimal feeding. Images by Neil Price.

Maramataka for Pipiri/Hōngongoi

Maramataka for Hōngoingoi/Hereturi Kōkā

Sorting out YOUR SEEDS

HOT & SPICY warming winter drinks

An unhealthy GLOW • How do screen technologies affect children’s health, and how can we ensure the best learning environments? Anne Gastinger investigates.

How I HEALED MY IBS • Mary Hambly describes her quest to heal her irritable bowel syndrome, which led to a change of diet, and to the healing modality of reiki.

Building NATURAL IMMUNITY with herbs • Medical herbalist Mary Allan shares her advice with Joanna Piekarski.

Pasture management to boost organic matter • This is the third article in a series by Dr Tim Jenkins on maintaining and building soil organic matter. This time we look at the role of good pasture management.

ASPARAGUS spears to die for • Years ago, Bill Cummings was impressed by an organic asparagus farm where the worms were ‘jumping out of the soil’. This, along with the increasing demand for organic at a time when the only organic asparagus grower in the Waikato was retiring, spurred Bill and his wife Irene to grow organically. Theresa Sjöquist discovers Greenfern, a dedicated family operation, and finds out how they grow this seasonal delicacy.

Back to the future Smooth transition to organic dairy • Conversion from high-input conventional dairying to organics can be relatively easy, writes Martin Freeth. He called on Wairarapa farmers Ben and Karen Herrick to learn about the conversion journey of this fourth-generation dairying couple and the financial benefits now starting to flow.

Passive house vs passive solar design

Subscribe!

Goods and services directory

Soil & Health AGM 2020 • Saturday 25 July, start time TBC Venue: by video conference

Remits • National Council is proposing the following remits to allow more accessible AGM meetings in future. These will be put to the 2020 AGM for an ‘in principle’ decision; they will need to be ratified by an in-person SGM or future AGM when circumstances allow.

Soil & Health events and contacts


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Home & Garden

Languages

English

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.

Build kindness & forge new alliances

Organic NZ • Soil & Health Association of NZ Inc

Breathe and contemplate

Your letters • Email: editor@organicnz.org.nz Post: PO Box 9693, Marion Square, Wellington, 6141.

Things we like

Competitions

Organic Bill rewrite coming

More diverse crops touted for NZ

Organic Week award winners

GE Free Northland appeal for funds

NZ organic deodorant wins Canadian award

New branding for AsureQuality

EU recovery plan includes organics

Regenerating AOTEAROA • A billion dollar investment in regenerative agriculture – imagine that! Gen Toop reports on Greenpeace’s proposal to the Government.

Health is OUR WEALTH • Health is said to be the greatest wealth. We have the ideal opportunity to grow New Zealand’s natural health sector as part of a clean, green, post-Covid-19 recovery plan, writes Sandra Clair.

Happy HOUSEPLANTS

The winter chook needs and feeds • Pam Adam offers tips for newbie chook keepers to prepare for a new flock, and for old hands to brush up on chook health and optimal feeding. Images by Neil Price.

Maramataka for Pipiri/Hōngongoi

Maramataka for Hōngoingoi/Hereturi Kōkā

Sorting out YOUR SEEDS

HOT & SPICY warming winter drinks

An unhealthy GLOW • How do screen technologies affect children’s health, and how can we ensure the best learning environments? Anne Gastinger investigates.

How I HEALED MY IBS • Mary Hambly describes her quest to heal her irritable bowel syndrome, which led to a change of diet, and to the healing modality of reiki.

Building NATURAL IMMUNITY with herbs • Medical herbalist Mary Allan shares her advice with Joanna Piekarski.

Pasture management to boost organic matter • This is the third article in a series by Dr Tim Jenkins on maintaining and building soil organic matter. This time we look at the role of good pasture management.

ASPARAGUS spears to die for • Years ago, Bill Cummings was impressed by an organic asparagus farm where the worms were ‘jumping out of the soil’. This, along with the increasing demand for organic at a time when the only organic asparagus grower in the Waikato was retiring, spurred Bill and his wife Irene to grow organically. Theresa Sjöquist discovers Greenfern, a dedicated family operation, and finds out how they grow this seasonal delicacy.

Back to the future Smooth transition to organic dairy • Conversion from high-input conventional dairying to organics can be relatively easy, writes Martin Freeth. He called on Wairarapa farmers Ben and Karen Herrick to learn about the conversion journey of this fourth-generation dairying couple and the financial benefits now starting to flow.

Passive house vs passive solar design

Subscribe!

Goods and services directory

Soil & Health AGM 2020 • Saturday 25 July, start time TBC Venue: by video conference

Remits • National Council is proposing the following remits to allow more accessible AGM meetings in future. These will be put to the 2020 AGM for an ‘in principle’ decision; they will need to be ratified by an in-person SGM or future AGM when circumstances allow.

Soil & Health events and contacts


Expand title description text