November/December 2020 

Features

• Soil4Climate project breaks new ground, by Pete Huggins and Jenny Lux
• Ethics in a cup: Fairtrade organic coffee: Theresa Sjöquist interviews IncaFé’s Joop Verbeek 
• Te Wharekura o Maniapoto: Educating the community: Yvonne Taura interviews Hōhepa Hei

Gardening

• Hot favourites: How to grow chillies, by Minette Tonoli
• Tips and tasks for the November-December garden, by Diana Noonan
• Keep your chooks in tip-top health with herbs and natural remedies, by Pam Adam
• Maramataka for Whiringa rangi and Hakihea, by Liliana Clarke

Health and food

• From breakdown to breakthrough: How Lydia Harris stopped her seizures
• Something in the water: The health dangers of nitrates in drinking water, by Mary Ralston

Farming and horticulture

• Organic sheep and beef: Renewed efforts for growth, by Martin Freeth
• Mulching to protect soil organic matter, by Dr Tim Jenkins

Building and technology

• Low energy, high performance: An off-grid portable house in Central Otago, by Andrea Bosshard

Science Watch

• Noticing microbial worlds: The importance of microbes in the evolution and health of animals and plants, by Margaret McFall-Ngai

Regulars

• Editorial; Letters; Competitions; News; Soil & Health events and contacts; What’s on

September/October 2020

Features

• Organic dairying: A labour of love – Suzi Phillips visits Alexander Organics in Cambridge – Organic Farmer of the Year 2020
• The new steam age: Hydrothermal weed management, by Stephen Torrington
• Conscious coffee: Mike Murphy of Auckland’s Kōkako Coffee Roastery, interviewed by Monique Hemmingson

Gardening

• Plan for plenty: Tips for gardening and food sourcing to meet your household’s needs, by Diana Noonan
• Crazy about heirloom tomatoes: Minette Tonoli shares her passion and growing advice.
• Multiply the indoor jungle: Propagating house plants, by Denise Cox
• Maramataka for Mahuru and Whiringa-a-nuku – September and October, by Liliana Clarke

Health and food

• Light and fresh recipes for spring Spring rice rolls; berry chocolate dessert cake; maple, walnut and spring greens salad, by Anna Valentine
• The power of healing with plants: Natural health for rheumatoid arthritis: Jan Mullin tells her story.

Farming and horticulture

• Reduced tillage for organic matter: How low-till practices help build organic matter, by Dr Tim Jenkins
• Lavender with altitude: Theresa Sjöquist tells the unique story of New Zealand Alpine Lavender, on the highway to Aoraki Mt Cook.

Building and technology

• House of earth and wood: Faith Gould visits a timber-framed adobe infill house near Helensville.

Regulars

• Editorial; Letters; Competitions; News; Soil & Health events and contacts; What’s on

July/August 2020

Features

• Regenerating Aotearoa: $1 billion
  for regenerative agriculture –Gen Toop reports on Greenpeace’s proposal 
• Health is our wealth: Growing NZ’s natural health sector as part of a clean, green, post-Covid-19 recovery plan, by Sandra Clair 

Gardening

• Happy houseplants, by Denise Cox 
• The winter chook: needs and feeds – tips for beginners and old hands, by Pam Adam 
• Maramataka for July and August – Pipiri, Hōngongoi and Hereturi Kōkā, by Liliana Clarke 
• Sorting out your seeds, by Philippa Jamieson

Health & food

• Hot & spicy warming winter drinks, by Minette Tonoli 
• An unhealthy glow: Screen technologies and children’s health, by Anne Gastinger 
• How I healed my IBS, with reiki and diet, by Mary Hambly  
• Building immunity with herbs: Mary Allan shares her advice with Joanna Piekarski 

Farming and horticulture

• Pasture management to boost organic matter, by Dr Tim Jenkins  
• Asparagus: Spears to die for – Theresa Sjöquist profiles Waikato growers, Greenfern  
• Back to the future: A smooth transition to organic dairy in the Wairarapa, by Martin Freeth

Building and technology

• Passive house vs. passive solar design, by Mark Fielding  

Regulars

• Editorial, Letters, Things we like, Competitions, News (including the Organic Products Bill), Soil & Health AGM and voting information, Soil & Health branch contacts 

May/June 2020

Features

• An organic appreciation of Jeanette Fitzsimons, by Christine Dann
• A raw deal for raw milk? By Keith Newman
• Survival foods: Grow and stow – tips for household and community food resilience, by Minette Tonoli

Gardening

• Homegrown avocados, by Denise Cox
• Locavore foraging for mulch: Kathrina Muller shares tips and 20 mulch options
• Maramataka for Haratua and Pipiri, May and June, by Liliana Clarke

Health & food

• Autumnal recipes using tamarillos, feijoas and avocados, by Denise Cox
• Antiviral plant medicine: Using essential oils and tinctures, by Denise Cox
• Fire cider and other tonics, by Minette Tonoli 5G: What’s the rush? By Anne Gastinger
• Farming and horticulture
• Compost, the soil transformer, by Dr Tim Jenkins
• Cooling the planet with water: Mary Ralston explores Walter Jehne’s focus on hydrology

Building and technology

• Hempcrete: The green building revolution, by Antoine Tane

Regulars

• News (including covid-19 impacts on the organic sector), editorial, competitions, book review, letters, AGM notice and Soil & Health update

March-April 2020

January – February 2020