Description

Organic NZ 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