Select Foodstuffs’ supermarkets have reduced their salad leaf varieties to a “limited stock” as severe weather impacts the ...

Make the most of every square inch of garden space and containers with succession planting. As you harvest your first crop of the season, consider replanting the space with a vegetable that will ...

With warm soil and just-warming air temperatures, June is the perfect time to get these annuals, herbs, and vegetables into ...

New Zealand is not alone in permitting the medicinal use of the drug. Australia, in July 2023, authorized specific psychiatrists to prescribe it for the treatment of certain mental health conditions.

In a significant development for food security, researchers have identified improved cassava varieties that show strong resistance to destructive viral disease threatening cassava farms. The study ...

As the temperatures drop and the days grow shorter, many New Zealand gardens are left to slumber through the colder months. But increasingly, Kiwi gardeners are pushing back against the seasonal ...

Elsoms head of agriculture Toby Reich says both these candidate varieties for the RL have not seen any impact from a new race of yellow rust which has overcome the key Yr15 resistance gene.

(CNN) — More than 90% of samples of a dozen fruits and vegetables tested positive for potentially harmful pesticide residues, according to the 2025 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. Dubbed the ...

Spinach topped the list, with more pesticide residue by weight than any other produce tested, followed by strawberries, kale (along with mustard greens and collards), grapes, peaches, cherries ...