Local Matters

Andrea has a variety of chickens including a Chilean Araucana that lays green eggs. The gardens start out as pig pens before being transformed. Welsh...

The flower show is now in its 99th year. Warkworth Garden Club is calling for entries for its annual Rose and Flower Show, which is...

Coming soon: Caladiums, which have been extremely rare and expensive for the last few years, will be available in Kings Plant Barn from October 19....

One of the Christian Bay kiwis. What is believed to be the first kiwi caught on camera outside the Tawharanui open sanctuary has been photographed...

Bruce and Raewyn’s lake has a blue dye that keeps it algae free. Bruce and Raewyn may be the first in the world to have...

Billy Whelan comes highly recommended for his garden maintenance services. Rodney College student Billy Whelan is ‘making green’ with a new lawn mowing business he...

Contractors worked up to 18-hour days to finish the building and its huge yard. Careful planning and working exceptionally long hours were what brought the...

Bevan Morrison, right, says the family is intending to build a large indoor children’s playground at its Morrison Heritage Orchard. Development of industrial land owned...

Lathem Broadstock in the Warkworth trade hall. Warkworth branch manager Lathem Broadstock has been a PlaceMakers person since he left Orewa College in his teens....

Bevan Morrison’s first build as project manager was one to remember. Covid-19 and the Level 4 lockdown could not have come at a worse time...