Organic NZ Magazine: January/February 2006 Author: Annie Wilson and Colin Walker In the final of our series Annie Wilson and Colin Walker look at growing carrots and brassicas for seed. The Koanga Institute was established to develop a national network of growers to support the seed bank started by Kay Baxter and the team at…
Organic NZ Magazine: Growing seed for harvest 3: Leeks, celery and cucurbits Section: Farming and Horticulture Author: Annie Wilson and Colin Walker In the third of our series, Colin Walker of the Koanga Institute talks to Annie Wilson about saving heritage seed. The Koanga Institute was established to develop a national network of growers to…
Organic NZ Magazine: September/October 2005 Section: Farming and Horticulture Author: Annie Wilson and Colin Walker In the second of our series, Colin Walker of the Koanga Institute talks to Annie Wilson about saving heritage seed. Now is the time to be organising the planting of the main summer crops. Here we will discuss saving the…
Organic NZ Magazine: July/August 2005 Section: Farming and Horticulture Author: Annie Wilson and Colin Walker In the first of a new series, Colin Walker of the Koanga Institute talks to Annie Wilson about saving heritage seed. Koanga has received such a multitude of New Zealand’s heritage seeds over the last twenty years from gardeners around…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2005 Author: Annie Wilson On the much lauded Heritage Farms, just out of Cambridge, manager Richard Prew has had a surprisingly large and successful crop of asparagus. It was enough to draw commercial grower Annie Wilson to check things out. The Waikato is the main asparagus growing area in the North…
Organic NZ Magazine: September/October 2004 Author: Holger Kahl Nitrogen is an important building block of proteins, nucleic acids and other cellular constituents which are essential for all forms of life. Nitrogen is such an important key nutrient element for plants that it warrants careful management, and – if mismanaged – can lead to severe environmental…
Organic NZ Magazine: November/December 2001 Author: Denise Mark Denise Mark describes exactly how to grow delicious, organic ‘Love Apples’. Is conventionally grown to your taste? Imagine a conventionally grown tomato, bred for long shelf life, growing in a plastic bag full of sawdust. Imagine the plant being fed an unrelenting cocktail of calcium, ammonium and…
Organic NZ Magazine: July/August 2001 Author: Tim Vallings One of the most delicious and nutrient rich foods available, avocados still have an air of mystique and luxury but they’re not that hard to grow. Tim Vallings tells us how to grow the best avos, sustainably! I’ve been asked how we grow our avocados and why…
Organic NZ Magazine: March/April 2000 Author: Paul Smith Medicinal herbs are one of the largest growth areas for health product retailers. But some of them may be grown on contaminated soils, as Paul Smith explains. While Soil & Health readers, and much of the general public, know that conventionally grown fruit and vegetables contain varying…
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