New Zealand Community Trust has awarded $20,000 of operational funding to support staff costs at the Eastern Bay of Plenty Riding for the Disabled's Whakatāne... Read More

It was four degrees and raining. What better setting for a chat about ‘the winter slog'? Farmstrong ambassador Sam Whitelock and dairy farmer Paul Walker... Read More

Twenty-seven rural students awarded scholarships between $2500 and $5000 to support their healthcare studies, addressing New Zealand's rural health workforce... Read More

On a hilly property in Lower Kaimai, where deer watch as you drive in, one savvy entrepreneur has turned a passion project into valuable extra income. Sara... Read More

From the prison to the orchard, a unique programme is offering former inmates a way back into society by giving them careers in horticulture. More than 60... Read More

A Pongakawa dairy farm manager has been convicted and fined $52,500 for illegally discharging effluent from a farm storage pond which ended up flowing into... Read More

Median barriers on State Highway 2 near Katikati are 'severely limiting” access and hurting horticultural and agricultural businesses, farmers say. NZTA... Read More

Scion scientists have identified a unique microbiome associated with pine pollen, a significant step forward in forest research. Led by microbiome scientist... Read More

A Welcome Bay couple are on a mission to revive sustainable traditions and make gardening accessible to everyone - no matter what size home they live in. Andrea... Read More

A remarkable Waikato woman in her 90s has become a 'townie” for the first time. Lalla Loeffen is coming to grips with life in the Radius Matamata Country... Read More

A self-employed Te Puke builder twice convicted for allowing an implement shed to be lived in without resource consent has been censured by the Building Practitioners... Read More

Bay of Plenty hosted hundreds of horticulture leaders, growers and those from support sectors in Mount Maunganui for the Horticulture New Zealand and Recognised... Read More