Life & Style

In 2017, the Rotary Club of Dunedin Central approached the Dunedin Botanic Garden to be a partner in a Green Legacy Hiroshima, Ceremonial Peace Trees project. The garden was asked to grow 25 ginkgo...

Your garden

Your garden

Although the weather may be cold, every opportunity should be taken over the next few weeks to dig and manure the vegetable garden, leaving the ground exposed to the ongoing winter weather, a...

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Continuing a legacy

John Dodd and Marianne Groothuis stand beside the European beech (Fagus sylvatica). PHOTOS:...

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Continuing a legacy

Providing a green space in suburbia where birds and insects can flourish is the aim of an Opoho couple, Louise Frampton writes.

Natural wonders abound

Natural wonders abound

Australian travel writer Sandip Hor discovers there is more to Iceland than the Northern Lights.

Removing the grit

Removing the grit

AI, Botox, weight-loss drugs ... are we in danger of losing the wrinkles that give life its grit? asks Eva Wiseman.

Ingredients for a cooking classic

Above: St Andrew’s Church, postcard by Muir and Moodie. Top: St Andrew’s Cookery Book, 12th...

Ingredients for a cooking classic

An early Dunedin recipe book told a story about the city’s inhabitants, Peter Read writes.

Waiting for Matariki to rise

Waiting for Matariki to rise

There’s a bend in the shared pathway out on Otago Peninsula just before you round the corner to Broad Bay.

Balinese cuisine

Balinese cuisine

About a month ago I came back from a two-week trip to Bali with my family.

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Marvellous opportunity to be seduced

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Marvellous opportunity to be seduced

Today, a marvellous opportunity awaited in the guise of four sub-regional expressions of pinot noir by Valli and two newcomers from Domaine Thomson.

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Feijoa jam

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Feijoa jam

This recipe was passed on to me from a kind lady who was tending to my son’s injuries.

Slow and steady wins in health and taste

People want a way to cook and eat that fulfills all the criteria — tasty, healthy, affordable, convenient and comforting.

Sooty fingerprints of sister species

Ludovic Slimac looks on at the excavation of the Grotte de Mandrin. Photo: Gregoire Bernadi

Sooty fingerprints of sister species

In 1957, my brother Richard and I travelled on our 59cc NSU mopeds from our home in Wimbledon to central France to spend our summer digging in the cave of Arcy-sur-Cure.

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Never again

A Palestinian man shows blood stains on his palm after carrying people hurt while seeking aid...

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Never again

Dunedin man Emir Hodzic survived a genocide.

Power to the plastic-free people

Attendees at a Wastebusters SipNSew event making reusable produce bags. Photo: Wastebusters

Power to the plastic-free people

It’s time to raise your own cup to Plastic Free July again.

Good food is only right

The māra kai, community garden, at Puketeraki Marae. Photos: supplied

Good food is only right

Food is a human right, but beyond that, is the right to food sovereignty.

Teamwork key when tidying up, mulching borders for winter

Dunedin Botanic Garden staff shift mulch at a teamwork day in the garden. PHOTO: SUPPLIED

Teamwork key when tidying up, mulching borders for winter

As we head into the winter months at Dunedin Botanic Garden our focus has been on tidying up the borders ready for mulching.

Your garden

What to do in your garden this week.

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Op shops a trove of treasures

The green bar stool in Anna and Sean Easton’s home is one of three they bought for $2 at a tip...

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Op shops a trove of treasures

Proving that one person's trash is another person's treasure, a Dunedin woman has furnished her home with free and thrifted pieces. Kim Dungey reports.