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- Category: DIY
- The Odd Drawer Chest
- DIY Spud Stacker
- Sprouting Spouting: A Gutter Garden
- DIY A-Frame Growing Trellis
- DIY Fruit and Vegetable Storage Rack
- Making a Woodstore
- Upcycled Tyre Seat
- Making a Cloche Growing Tunnel
- Upcycled Wooden Pallet Swing
- Making a Propagation Station
- Upcycling an Old Door into a Bench-Seat & Shelf
- DIY Chair Bench
- Chic Chicks: DIY Chick Brooder
- DIY Garden Obelisk: Grow Up, Not Out
- Make a Garden Gate from Old Tools
- Restoring Painted Door Knobs to former Glory
- DIY Bird Deterrents
- Distressed Paint Project: Outdoor Herb Chair
- How to fix Putty: Guide for Beginners
- Rainwater Butts for Garden
- Upcycling Wooden Pallets
- Paint Tin Recycling (empty or partially used)
- How to paint Villa windows & French doors
- Winter and the woodshed
- One step, two steps, three steps more
- The before, during and AFTER: DIY update
- Tree Stump Table
- Stripping 90 years worth of paint: wooden frames
- 1920’s Cedar Panel Doors
- Renovations Round #2
- Upcycled Matai Shelving
- Matai Floorboards – not all Matai is the same
- My vertical veggie community garden
- Restoring Matai floorboards
- Renovations: When to get the Big Boys in
- Emergency repairs to a picket fence
- Tips on DIY Deconstruction!
- How to repair a puncture on a bicycle
- New life for upcycled cable drum
- Applying a perfect silicone sealant
- Building a Workshop
- Planning a Workshop
- Planning a Hot House – Build or Buy, Size and Positioning
- Building a Hot House – Glass or Plastic?
- Planning a Hot House: Water, Ventilation, Lighting
- Category: ARTS & CRAFT
- DIY Growing Ladder
- The Seed Files – Saving Seeds
- DIY Bug Hotel
- Easy Bird Bath
- Curiosities: Charity Shop Planter Pots
- Fused Soft Plastic Tote Bags
- Reforming Soap from Old Soap Scraps
- DIY: Washable Face Mask
- Homemade Citronella Candles
- How to remove sticky labels from glass jars
- DIY Draught Stoppers
- DIY Blackboard or Chalkboard
- Hydrangea Heaven
- How to make a Door Stop
- Upcycling Nikau Palms: for art’s sake
- Sewing Machine Advice: 1949
- DIY Garden Art
- Upcycled Garden Bunting
- How to gift a Cocktail Garden
- Upcycling jam jars
- Meet Leo, the disco DIY Scarecrow
- Upcycle your old Sky dish into a birdbath
- Making a bird feeder
- Upcycling your Christmas Tree into a bird feeder
- Category: INDOOR
- Category: OUTDOOR
- Category: GROWING
- How to grow Spaghetti Squash
- Lady Godiva Pumpkins – ‘Naked’ Seeds
- Choko: Growing from Seed
- Super Celery – All for the Eating
- The Joy of Crop Swaps
- Potato Season: chitting & seeding varieties
- Grow Your Own
- Broad Beans: standing tall
- Prinzessinnengarten, Berlin
- Garden allotments in Munich: weekend houses with grit
- The Burys Allotments, Godalming
- Food Runners & Urban Farming in San Francisco
- Community Fruit Harvesting
- Garlic: How to grow in NZ
- Pumpkin: Growing Vertical Gardens
- Asparagus: How to Grow
- Kaibosh: the Food Rescuers
- Pick Me! My Community Vertical Vege Garden
- Food for Thought: Auckland Berm Gardens under Fire
- Lemon Tree Defiance: Benny on the Berm
- Community Gardening: Incredible Edible Geraldine
- Sprouts: How to grow in a mason jar
- Mint: Grow from Cuttings
- Kai Auckland
- Native Spinach
- Brussels Sprout: Grow from Seed
- Spring Onions: Grow from Seed
- Carrots: How to Grow
- Broccoli: How to Grow from Seed
- Onions: Stringing for Storage
- Rhubarb: a vege with fruity chic
- Corn: How to Grow from Seed
- Onions: Grow from seed
- Basil: How to Grow from Seed
- Broad Beans: How to Grow
- Rediscovering photosynthesis!
- Growing from seed – containers or trays?
- Radish: Grow from Seed
- Potatoes: Where to Plant
- Potatoes: preparing seed potatoes
- Category: FRUIT
- Category: GARDEN MAINTENENCE
- How to split and divide Flax and Grasses
- Nifty Tips for Pots-to-Garden Planting
- Hungry Bin Worm Farm – Years Later #part2
- Compost Envy: How to make your own
- Natural ways to deter Slugs & Snails
- How to get rid of aphids — organically
- Eggshell Tea & Eggshell Crumb – free garden fertilisers
- Hungry Bin Worm Farm – The Arrival #part 1
- Legionnaires Disease – be aware
- Category: URBAN GARDENING
- Category: VEGETABLES
- Category: MOMENTS
- Firewood, Frosts, and the Quiet Joy of Preparation
- Back to the heart of Modern Homesteading
- 1918 Influenza in NZ – Realities of the time
- August 2019
- Feast Waikato
- The ride of their lives: my crazy parents
- Our rural backyard wedding
- About Blooming Time
- Winter Pruning & Wood Chips for the Smoker
- Logs, kindling, fire
- My Ancestral DNA
- Never mind the spiders
- A bird’s life
- Smell that country air
- Rural Delivery: my road to self sufficiency
- 1939 Cooking Lessons: being resourceful
- My Damn Good Gardening Project
- My DNA
- Self Help Groceteria: NZ shopping 90 years ago
- We know you: Harold Edmond Humphrey
- 1929 Glaxo Baby Book
- Blossoms, Bees and Blues
- All Taste, No Waste
- The coal store, the outhouse and the old copper
- Living in a Tramper’s Hut: Deconstruction Continues
- 1947: Auckland’s First Traffic Lights
- What’s behind the back door?
- Introducing, the Kalettes —- ta daaaa
- Waste not, want not: food salvage projects
- A nod and a wink to a 1920’s garden
- New Zealand Food Writer, check.
- A fabulous find – just in time for Christmas, 1946!
- A place to call home
- Going vege
- A mid-winter harvest
- Know your bones and why the dance that way
- Life isn’t all about the money, honey
- My soapbox: kerbside food waste collection trials
- Potatoes: Our first ever harvest
- From zero to gardening hero in 3 easy months
- Buying an old Stereogram
- The challenge is set: home grown veges for a year!
- Category: RECIPES
- Waste-Not Chicken & Potato Croquettes
- A Winter Twist: Beetroot Caprese Salad
- Chargrilled Broccoli
- Homemade Slow-Cooked Soup
- How to cook polenta the easy way
- Quinoa Bowl
- Mini Cheese Balls
- Cauliflower Cheese Soup
- Crunchy Roasted Chickpeas
- Lemony Leeks & Thyme
- Buffalo Cauliflower Bites
- Mushroom Dumplings
- Southland Cheese Rolls
- Leek & Risoni Balls
- Pumpkin Balls
- Courgette & Potato Soup
- Cooking with Kamo Kamo aka Kumi Kumi
- Onion Skin Soup
- Prawn & Persimmon Dumplings
- Watercress Soup
- Broccoli & Squash Soup
- Buttercup & Ginger Soup
- Kumara & Caramelised Onion Soup
- Homemade Vegetable Stock
- Leek & Potato Soup
- You say potatoes, I say potatoes
- Salad Days: getting festive
- Pescatarian & Vegetarian Festive Fare
- Cauliflower Rice
- Mushroom & Roast Tomato Soup
- Healthy winter vege & easy ways to cook them
- Best ever Pumpkin Soup
- Kalette Smoked Paprika Loaf
- Kalette & Kikorangi Soup
- Beetroot & Corn Couscous
- Prawn & Tuna Coconut Laksa
- Cauliflower & Leek Soup
- Kale & Broccoli Leaf Chips
- Cannellini Stuffed Cucumbers
- Corn & Green Bean Fritters
- Broccoli Chilli Chowder
- Baked Camembert Parcels
- Tattie Scones
- Broccoli Balls
- Vegetable Stack
- Liptauer Cheese
- Green Garden Slaw
- Category: BAKING
- Stone Fruit Pudding
- Fresh Fruit Shortcake
- Pumpkin Shortcake Slice
- Feijoa, Date & Walnut Loaf
- 10 Savoury Ways with Pumpkin
- My go-to Blueberry Muffins
- Almond Crescent Cookies
- Peanut Butter Cookies
- PBJ Oat Balls
- Belgium Biscuits with Jam Icing
- Anzac-Inspired Lockdown Slice (with DIY oat flour)
- LSA Macaroons
- Banana Loaf
- Pumpkin Scones
- Feijoa & Cream Cheese Muffins
- Chocolate Courgette & Blueberry Brownie
- Blueberry Cheesecake Brownies
- Almond Mandarin Squares
- Grapefruit Meringue Pie
- Homemade Flaky Pie Pastry
- Candied Citrus
- Buttermilk & Chia Scones
- Orange & Rhubarb Muffins
- Persimmon Loaf
- Seriously Moreish Savoury Muffins
- Spiced Nashi Pear Tart
- Plum Squares
- Plum Friands
- Sweet & Salty Cookies
- Crumble Top Lemon Curd Muffins
- Ginger Gems: 1935 Edmonds Cook Book
- Workingman’s Rockcakes
- All Things Nice Muesli Slice
- Oaty Jam Thumbs
- Passionfruit Shortbread
- Feijoa Pikelets (aka Feijoa Fritters)
- Nutella Marrow Muffins
- Passionfruit Coconut Slice
- Rhubarb Crumble
- Chocolate Courgette Cake
- Carrot Cake Cookies
- Pineapple Coconut Muffins
- Dark Chocolate Macadamia Truffles
- Easy Focaccia Bread
- Mandarin Jaffa Cakes
- Almond & Dark Peppermint Raw Balls
- Mandarin Yoghurt Cake
- Flourless Skin-On Mandarin Cake
- Date & Almond Truffles
- Muesli Balls
- Rhubarb & Yoghurt Cake
- Ginger Biscuits
- Baked Custard Tart
- Jammy Coconut Muffins
- Lemon Curd Brownies
- Bitter Sweet Chocolate Brownies
- Rhubarb Raspberry Ripple Tea Cake
- Feijoa & Dark Chocolate Cake
- Zucchini & Olive Loaf
- Category: BRUNCH
- Homemade Mixed Fruit Compote
- Homemade Yoghurt without buying endless Sachets
- Courgette Waffles
- Vegetarian Nacho Salad
- Plum Smoothie
- Salmon Roulade
- The waste-not Frittata
- Kalette Rarebit on Toast
- Banana Pancakes
- Mini Kalette Frittatas
- Broccoleaf Breakfast Smoothie
- Smashed Potato & Tuna Croquettes
- Chickpea Rolls
- Flaky Feta & Broccoli Roll
- Category: CONDIMENTS, DIPS & DRESSINGS
- DIY Cottage Cheese
- 10 Ways to use Preserved Lemons
- Homemade Flavoured Salt
- Sweet Chilli Sauce with Extras
- Homemade Hummus
- Smokey Tomato Sauce
- Apricot & Avocado Mustard
- 8 Easy Dressings and Vinaigrette Recipes
- Caramelised Onion
- Spinach & Ricotta Cob Loaf
- Smoky Bacon-esque Coconut Chips
- Broccoli Crumb
- Savoury Skin-On Tomato Salsa
- Green Garlic Vinaigrette
- Spiced Orange Sauce
- Roasted Pumpkin Seeds & Pumpkin Skin Crisps
- Persimmon Salsa
- Blueberry Vinegar & Vinaigrette
- Spiced Plum Sauce
- Croutons & Crostini
- Salvage Bread: Make your own breadcrumbs
- Make your own Mozzarella
- Moroccan Roast Carrot Dip
- Infused Rose Petal Sugar
- Broad Bean and Pea Dip
- Dry Kalette Pesto
- Beetroot Hummus
- Summer Glazes
- Homemade Mayonnaise
- Hey Presto: Basil Pesto
- Home Infused Chilli Oil
- Fresh Mango Salsa
- Homemade Blackberry Vinaigrette
- Almond & Parsley Pesto
- DIY Ham Glaze
- Category: DESSERTS
- Category: DRINKS
- Category: MAINS
- Pumpkin Pasta
- Homemade Pasta Sauce for Freezing
- Green Bean & Potato Salad
- Baked Spaghetti Squash
- Stout Beef Stew
- Cranberry Chilli Chicken Casserole
- Yorkshire Puddings & Toad in the Hole
- Black Bean & Quinoa Stuffed Pumpkin
- Stuffed Baked Potatoes
- Vegetarian Enchiladas
- Red Bean Nacho Lasagne
- Citrus Broccolini Pasta
- Creamy Pumpkin Spaghetti
- Vegetarian Mushroom ‘Meatballs’
- Summer Soft Shell Tacos
- Tuna Couscous
- Salmon & Potato Bake
- Gluten Free Pumpkin Pizza Crust
- Cauliflower Pizza Crust
- Marrow Fritters
- Home-made Potato Gnocchi
- Minted Cauliflower Risotto
- Veggie Stew & Dough-Boys
- Mushroom Burgers
- Category: PRESERVES
- Preserving Pears in Juice
- Spiced Plum Chutney
- Making Sauerkraut
- Onion and Beetroot Relish
- Green Tomato Pasta Sauce
- Pear and Tomato Relish
- Feijoa BBQ Sauce
- Forgotten Fruits: Loquat Jam
- Citrus Sweet & Sour Cooking Sauce
- How to use Kaffir Limes
- Green Tomato & Chilli Chutney
- Preserving Chilli in Brine
- Fresh Fig Chutney
- Chilli Fig Jam
- Zingy Cabbage Pickle
- Easy Refrigerator Pickles
- Feijoa Jelly
- Feijoa & Ginger Jam
- Spaghetti Squash Relish
- Plum Jam
- Versatile Cauliflower Pickle
- Easy Pickled Fresh Beetroot
- Forgotten Fruits: Crab Apple Jelly
- Skin-on Feijoa Chutney
- Forgotten Fruits: Loquat Sauce
- Pickled Beetroot (from frozen)
- Creamy Lemon Curd
- Preserved Orange Zest
- Homemade Chilli Relish
- 5 Ways to Preserve Fresh Chillies
- Easy Homemade Pickled Onions
- Bitter Grapefruit & Whisky Marmalade
- Mandarin Curd
- Dehydrated Persimmon – Slices and Fruit Rollups
- Persimmon Chutney
- Fruit Bowl Chutney
- Preserving using the Water Bathing Method
- Banana Chutney
- Preserving Lemons
- Curried Courgette Sandwich Pickle
- Guava Paste
- Bread & Butter Pickle
- Category: SIDES & STARTERS
- Category: SOUPS
- Category: TIPS & TRICKS
- My Love Affair with Agee Special Jars
- How to Preserve Lemon or Lime Juice
- Dehydrated Lemon Zest Powder
- Dehydrating Leafy Greens – Powdered Greens
- Frozen Mystery Mix
- Free-flow Freezing Steps for Excess Veggies
- Freezing Eggs and other everyday food items
- 25 delicious ways to use leftover Jam in Recipes
- Being Resourceful: Menu Planning
- 25 Delicious Ways to Use Leftover Relish
- How to stop lettuce from spoiling
- Orange Vinegar DIY Household Cleaner
- Homemade Cultured Buttermilk
- How to Sterilise Preserving Jars & Bottles
- A bucketful of plums: how to freeze them
- Preserving Fresh Herbs: Rosemary & Parsley
- Love Food Hate Waste: the campaign begins
- Foraging for edibles in our forests
- Leftovers are just the beginning
- Surviving Junk Free June
- Love Food Hate Waste: NZ’s Top 10 food wastes
- Shelling Beans
- Jellies fit for a vegetarian: Agar Powder
- Food rescue starts at home
- Know your dates: Best Before and Use By
- Leeks: Preparing, cleaning and freezing
- Three cups of sugar – how to make caster sugar & icing sugar