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For the love of bugs

Make your own Victorian-style natural collection display case Kids have a great curiosity for bugs—both crawling and long dead. Empty shells and the polished bones of

A good eight hours

We want our home to be a sanctuary from a hectic, polluted world—and at the end of busy and stressful days we especially need our bedroom

Minimalism

How far can three tanks of gas take you? Professional fuel miser Mark Whittaker says it’s not just what you drive, but how you drive that

Lawn vs meadow

Everyone loves a lush lawn; but are they as green as they look? Everyone loves a lush lawn—but they’re not as green as they look, discovers

Nicola Vallance

Advocate Advocate Nicola Vallance Local Hero PHOTO: David Baird Nicola Vallance has seen the most beautiful, inspiring and unusual jewels of New Zealand’s outdoors. She’s gotten

Scents and sensibilities

When perfume began to trigger her daughter’s asthma, Johanna Knox decided to investigate. She discovered plenty of health concerns over common synthetic perfume ingredients—and an abundance

As happy as pigs in the mud

Angus Allan travels deep into the heart of South Canterbury to find some of the country’s most contented pigs Havoc Farm lies nestled at the foot

Days of our lives

How to become a super-organiser If only we were more efficient organisers, we’d have the headspace to think more clearly, relax more easily – and be

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