Dee Pignéguy

Can we grow our own clothes? People have been growing plants to make clothes forever, making sturdy fabrics that provide protection from weather and insects....

However hard we try, we all produce food waste. What we do with that waste is important for the natural cycle of decomposition. Do you...

Hügelkultur is an ingenious garden method that is commonly overlooked when establishing raised garden beds.  It mimics nature beautifully by utilising the natural process of...

Seeds are packages of genetic information with instructions for building the next generation.  They are the foundation of human life, from the food that we...

In the community garden at Whangaparāoa Community Hall, we decided to show the children how to plan for a small backyard food forest on an...

During the pandemic, visits to urban parks and public gardens and beaches soared, once again demonstrating how important green infrastructure is. Suddenly fresh air, green...

Florence fennel (Foeniculum vulgare), a native to the Mediterranean, is an ancient crop mentioned in Greek mythology which has a long history of cultivation and...

The waggle dance of the honey bee (Apis mellifera) has been observed since antiquity, but until the mid-20th Centur,y scientists had no idea why bees...

The Wardian case, named after its inventor, Dr Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward, was an invention that transformed the global transport of plants in the 19th century. ...

Plant diversity increases stability, pollinators and weed and pest suppression, and is an essential garden tool.  Diversity also means there will always be something that...