Posts for November 2025

Discover the essentials of rural grocery shopping – from emergency bird feed runs to visiting farming supply stores like Helensville Farmlands and PGG in New Zealand.

Discover how New Zealand’s first queen yellow-legged hornet detection is prompting locals to build DIY wasp traps to protect honeybees and crops from this invasive threat.

“If you don’t like the weather, just wait 5 minutes.” Spring came with beautiful warm and sunny days, storm, hail, rain and sunshine in between. It was cold and a few hours later warm again and vice versa.