With the ramifications of Covid-19 in New Zealand, from stockpiling to food rationing, we should now, more than ever, embrace ... Read More
Food Runners & Urban Farming in San Francisco
I am intrigued how cities apply themselves to meet their urbanomic needs. I recently met up with Phil from Food ... Read More
Love Food Hate Waste: the campaign begins
The statement couldn’t be any clearer. There’s a campaign in New Zealand to help raise awareness of the amount of ... Read More
Once upon a time, every backyard in every quarter acre block in New Zealand, would be home to fruit trees ... Read More
You say potatoes, I say potatoes
Regardless how to you say it, we can agree that potatoes are one of the most user-friendly vegetables around. So ... Read More
Leftovers are just the beginning
Leftovers make up 8% of 122,547 tonnes of avoidable food waste each year in New Zealand. Where is the disconnect ... Read More
Salvage Bread: Make your own breadcrumbs
Bread goes stale. Fact. Breadcrumbs bought from a supermarket could set you back $1.80-$6.00 depending how fancy. Fact. You get ... Read More
Love Food Hate Waste: NZ’s Top 10 food wastes
This isn’t the first time I’ve spoken about food waste and certainly won’t be the last. Per annum, 79kg of ... Read More
Food wastage is unnecessary. There is utterly no need to add to the already gloomy statistics that every New Zealand ... Read More
Know your dates: Best Before and Use By
Many years ago when I was working in England and living on a tight budget, I fed my family of ... Read More
It is appalling to learn how much food New Zealand wastes. Thank goodness for kind hearts; the food rescuers. With ... Read More
The next time you contemplate throwing a stale loaf to the sparrows, scraping onion skins into the compost or discarding ... Read More
Waste not, want not: food salvage projects
One of the many sayings my grandmother crooned with a smile was ‘waste not, want not’. Surviving two world wars, ... Read More