Orchards
A year after Gabrielle, "a little bit of a miracle"
A year ago the Wilson family's apple trees were bowled like nine pins when logs came crashing through stop banks and silt drowned many areas. Did the trees come good? Audio
Te Matau a Māui iwi bring whānau to whenua with orchards
Iwi across Te-Matau-a-Maui or Hawke's Bay are making big investments in orchards, bringing whānau back to their whenua.
They hope this new kaupapa will bring their people jobs. Here's our Hawke's Bay… Video, Audio
Record crops for fruit growers amid picker shortage
Richard Clarkson, pipfruit general manager at Birdhurst Orchards in Motueka and president of the Motueka Fruit Growers Association, talks to Jesse about the ongoing labour shortage. Audio
To spray or not to spray - from cotton fields to codling moth
For an American scientist in Hawkes Bay, his experience on working with pest management on cottonfields lent itself to research in NZ's orchards. Produced by Kadambari Raghukumar Audio
The fall and rise of the gold kiwifruit
New Zealand is the third largest producer of kiwifruit in the world. But in November 2010, that looked to change when kiwifruit vines across the country became ravaged by the bacterial disease PSA. It… Audio
The seemingly unsolvable fruit picking shortage
It's the annual story - orchardists can't get fruit pickers at harvest time. Now with no immigrant workers the situation is even more dire. But there's a reason unemployed New Zealanders won't take up… Audio
Building up potential of bumblebees
Plant and Food Research would like to empower the development of a much larger bumblebee industry in New Zealand. It has developed the technology to successfully breed bumblebees, now it wants… Audio
From Rot to Riches
Millions of dollars worth of New Zealand fruit and grapes were at risk of rotting on the branches due to a worker shortage. Until a bunch of growers took a risk. Produced by Eva Corlett. Audio
How labour shortages are impacting the apple and pear industry
Hawke's Bay is struggling with a labour shortage, just as this year's bumper crop of apples and pears is ripe for picking. Gary Jones, from New Zealand Apple and Pears says it's time for a… Audio
Iwi kiwifruit venture grows Māori economy
A three way collaboration between iwi groups Ngāti Awa Group Holdings, Rotoma No I, and Te Arawa Group Holdings recently secured a deal, buying three Bay of Plenty kiwifruit orchards. Together as the… Audio
New Zealand India Apple Partnership
New Zealand apple experts are working with growers in Himachal Pradesh to improve production of the region's apple trees. Audio
The rabbit problem
Science communication student Berenice Mathieu, from the University of Otago, finds out about moves to introduce a more virulent strain of RHD or rabbit calicivirus into New Zealand to control… Audio
Auckland sprawl forces nurseries to close
As Auckland sprawls, large swathes of arable land are transformed from paddocks, orchards, and plant nurseries into lifestyle blocks and subdivisions. There's also a risk of 'dumbing down' plant… Video, Audio
Another human trafficking case under investigation
A human trafficking scam that's carried on undetected for years is said to be using Facebook to lure migrants into jobs paying under 10 dollars an hour on New Zealand orchards. A union organiser… Audio
Good Boy pears
Nick Tripe is a pear grower at Glenfield Orchard in the Mangamahu Valley, about 40kms north-east of Whanganui. He talks to Kathryn about the joys and challenges of growing pears and the best way to… Audio
Growing Jobs
The Eastern Institute of Technology, Work and Income and local iwi have teamed up with an Hawkes Bay orchardist, John Bostock, to set up a training programme that's helped some locals get off the… Audio