Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2010 Section: Health and Food Author: Alison White Alison White of the Safe Food Campaign answers these questions – Which foods in New Zealand have the most pesticide residues? – What’s wrong with pesticide residues in food? – How can pesticide residues in food be reduced? The following content is accessible…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2010 Section: Farming and Horticulture Author: Annie Stuart Annie Stuart visits Brydone Growers Organic Farmshop south of Oamaru, and discovers a thriving and expanding market garden built on decades of organic history One of my favourite stalls at the Otago Farmers’ Market is that of Brydone Organic Growers. Their range of…
Organic NZ Magazine: March/April 2008 Section: Health and Food Author: Alison White ‘Aspartame is the most controversial and complained-about additive in history.’ Alison White of the Safe Food Campaign. The Safe Food Campaign believes that the widespread exposure to the artificial sweetener aspartame (951) – an addictive, carcinogenic neurotoxin – is causing a public health…
Organic NZ Magazine: September/October 2007 Section: Gardening Author: Pam Blowers The Jerusalem artichoke is a brown-coloured, knobbly, white-fleshed tuber root vegetable from the daisy (Compositae) family. It is not related to Globe Artichoke. In the USA it is known more commonly as Sunchoke, and in Italy as Girasola artiocco, the sunflower artichoke (girasola means to…
Organic NZ Magazine: May/June 2007 Section: Health and Food Author: Philippa Jamieson Philippa Jamieson checks out a herbal medicine business that is under threat from the Therapeutic Products and Medicines Bill. The premises of ARTEMIS Herbal Medicine are just as warm and sunny as the beautiful Dunedin day outside. Sandra Clair shows me into her…
Organic NZ Magazine: March/April 2003 Author: Dr Bob Anderson Is anything more aggravating than buying what you understand to be organic food only to discover that it is not organic and that industry has, once again, “meddled” with it? My wife returned from a supermarket recently having purchased a bottle of “Simply Organic” milk. On…
