Zoe at work in a garden

Meet Zoe, the Very Green Gardener

Our inter­views with cool people con­tin­ue! 1. Hey, who are you and what do you do? I’m Zoe and I run The Very Green Garden­er, which is a little garden­ing com­pany in Pōneke. We main­tain people’s gar­dens as well as sup­port them to do their own gar­dens. (Edit­or note: Zoe also writes an excel­lent news­let­ter […]

a photo of Mindy from behind, walking along a road. She's wearing bright orange tights and pink shorts

A walk for transgender youth

This week’s pro­file takes us to the oth­er side of the Remu­taka Ranges for a very good cause.  1. Hello! Who the heck are youse and what are you up to? I’m Kylie, and col­lect­ively we’re the Parry/Hannen whānau. My 17-year-old daugh­ter and I are walk­ing across the Wair­ar­apa into Wel­ling­ton to raise money and […]

paper bottles of Mothers Ruined Gin on a beach

A ginterview with the mothers of Mothers Ruined

Full dis­clos­ure: I have worked with the Moth­ers on Boom Gin – a col­lab­or­a­tion with my eth­ic­al cloth­ing com­pany, which is fund­ing a schol­ar­ship to the week­end for fat babes that I run. Even if I had­n’t done that though, I would still think they are very cool and inter­est­ing people who make deli­cious products […]

Joel, a Pākeha man, stands outside the beehive and smiles

Meet Joel MacManus, the journalist that Wellington actually deserves

It’s been a very weird week in Wel­ling­ton where we’re think­ing actu­ally Chris Bish­op has done good for once with the Dis­trict Plan? Very strange pos­i­tion to be in. Obvi­ously, city coun­cilors who want a city for the liv­ing and future have pushed for this for a very long time, but I don’t think it […]