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Knowing your hardwoods from your softwoods makes a big difference.

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A Kaikōura couple finds their purpose in stalking — and saving — the banded dotterel. They’ve been winging it for seven years.

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How to make a cosy hot-water bottle cover

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Land

How to plant tulip and daffodil bulbs

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Travel

Meet New Zealand's one and only Booktown

How to save a small rural town from decades of gradual decline? A cadre of art-world book-loving heavy-hitters are making a difference in Featherston.

10 gardens to visit around the North and South Island

Connect with nature’s healing powers in spaces as spiritual as ancient churches when visiting the country’s many open-to-view gardens.

5 nostalgic holiday spots

Step back in time to summers past when crowds were scarce and it seemed the biggest problem was what flavour ice cream to choose.

Animals

Our Animals - Why clean water is the key to healthy birds

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