Drawing on over 40 years of experience, nutrition and exercise specialist Susan Birch explains how metabolism, hormones, food, movement, sleep and stress work together to influence your energy, weight, mood and overall health.

Plants of all sorts play their parts in a lively new memoir by Peter Butler – from the plants that led to his imprisonment, to those he's planted for income, enjoyment, or carbon sinks. Here's a short extract.

Growers worldwide are experiencing two fundamental growing challenges – high and rising input costs, and climate extremes. Species, soil, plants, crops, food supply and affordability are all threatened. Organics is well equipped to solve and lead solutions, and one proven method is the Johnson-Su compost system, as Ross Vintiner writes.

There are some foods that quietly get on with the job without demanding much attention. Parsley is one of them. Paula Sharp shines a light on this humble hero.

Easy to peel, naturally sweet and perfectly portable, these vibrant little citrus fruits are a biodegradable package of winter nutrition, as Paula Sharp writes.

We are the ones who live beside the paddock. No one asked us whether the new substance belonged here. The question is: who is made to carry the cost? A parable for our times, by David McNeill

One woman. Thirty hives. Thousands upon thousands of bees, and a lifelong love affair with some of nature’s most essential pollinators. Paula Sharp interviews beekeeper Jewelle Lloyd.

With its unmistakable perfume and tangy-sweet flavour, the feijoa is more than just a garden staple, writes Paula Sharp; it’s nutrition packed in a fibrous skin, and it has a firm place in childhood memories and Kiwi culture.

Wrinkled on the outside, vibrant and jewel-like inside, passionfruit is one of New Zealand’s most distinctive summer fruits. Beyond its distinctive aroma and tangy sweetness, passionfruit offers impressive nutritional benefits, as Paula Sharp elaborates.