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Recipe | Pretty Slaw with Pomegranate & Beetroot
This slaw makes a regular appearance on our catering menu and is a nice easy slaw to whip up for a large gathering or a festive feast.
Recipe from RIPE: Thought for Food

Recipe | Green Soba Noodle Salad
A bountiful vegan salad loaded with greens, this salad can also be served up warm as a meal.
Recipe from RIPE: Thought for Food

Zoë Field’s flower-filled life | Field of Roses
Zoë Field of Field of Roses runs a flower farm and floral design studio with her mother, Sue Field, just outside of Gisborne, New Zealand. Inspired by her flower-filled life, Zoë has released her debut book that celebrates the joy and beauty of flowers throughout the seasons.
Read an excerpt from the book: Lost & Found and learn about Zoë’s life as a flower farmer and florist —

Recipe | End-of-Summer Chow Chow — by Christall Lowe
This recipe is a great way to use up all the veges in an exploding garden, or veges that are cheap to buy at the end of summer. Anything goes, really, as long as you get the base right.
Recipe by Christall Lowe, from Kai

Recipe | Feijoa Ice Cream — by Christall Lowe
Feijoa Ice Cream Recipe by Christall Lowe, from Kai

Recipe | Reveya: Peanut-stuffed baby aubergines

Through the seasons in Kate Williams’ Garden — The After-hours Stylist
Kate Williams, author of The After-hours Stylist, lives with her family on a lifestyle block in Canterbury, where she is kept busy with running floral workshops, and looking after her extensive 5 acre garden.

RECIPE | Pumpkin, lentil, avocado & roasted lemon oil

Recipe | Lemony broccoli, pea and ginger brown rice with toasted cashews and sticky sultanas

Recipe | Roast potatoes, cherry tomatoes & sprouting broccoli with caper pesto

Recipe | Pumpkin farrotto with crispy shredded kale & sage

Recipe | Roasted vegetables + miso tahini salad

Recipe | Roasted Brussels Sprouts, Caramelised Onions + Tahini
This salad uses three of the Two Raw Sisters’ (Margo & Rosa Flanagans’) favourite, most-used winter ingredients.
Recipe by Two Raw Sisters, from SALAD

Designing Your Vegetable Garden | The Best Place for a Garden
Determining the location of your garden is probably the most significant decision you will need to make. Where you choose to establish your garden is going to determine its success and ease of maintenance.
— Extracted from The Abundant Garden by Niva and Yotam Kay

Recipe | Tomato pilaf w/ black lentils + caramelised onion

Recipe | Orange, hazelnut + coconut bircher muesli

Homemade herbal tea from herbs, spices, flowers + other everyday things
To make herbal tea, select your spices, herbs or flowers, and place into a tea pot. Cover with boiling water and allow to brew for 5 minutes, before drinking warm or at room temperature. For a rough guide, use 1 teaspoon herbs/spices/flowers per 250ml (1 cup) boiling water.
Recipe by Emma Galloway, Every Day

Easy, Every Day Recipes — by Emma Galloway
According to recipe developer and blogger, Emma Galloway, everyday food should be quick and easy, using readily available ingredients and simple techniques. Emma’s latest cookbook, Every Day, contains a range delicious and adaptable gluten-free and vegetarian recipes including nourishing breakfasts, snacks, baking, easy weeknight meals and desserts.

Plant Types — Perennials, Annuals & Biennials
Having a broad understanding of plant types will unlock your creativity and pathways to further knowledge. Learn about the difference between perennials, annuals and biennials…
— Extracted from Petal Power by Julia Atkinson-Dunn

How to grow — Verbena Bonariensis
VERBENA BONARIENSIS — A tall airy perennial with long cylindrical stems, sparse leaves and tightly clustered violet flowers. Written by Julia Atkinson-Dunn, Petal Power

Plant profile | Tītoki (Alectryon excelsus)

Plant profile | Pōhutukawa (Metrosideros excelsa)

Plant profile | Kawakawa (Piper excelsum subspecies. excelsum)
