Give a little, get a lot: Enrichment for your pets during the busy season
While ultimately a fun time of year, this celebratory season can bring a fair few stresses to pets as well as their humans.
Seasonal Bounty: Asparagus
Delicious simply pan fried in butter or olive oil, the elegant asparagus also features as the star of many springtime recipes. Here are five of our latest favourites.
Seed bombs: Weapons of mass germination
Here’s how to create seed bombs for some explosions of colour in your own patch, or for a touch of guerilla gardening this spring.
How to create a springtime feast for birds
Spring means a rise in flapping, hopping, tweeting, chirping, diving and even fighting as the local birds look for mates, build nests and forage for the food that was so scarce over the winter.
Embrace the chaos
A boon for biodiversity, chaos gardening takes a natural approach to garden planning, with flowers growing alongside vegetables, plants left to go to seed, and straight rows given over to haphazardness.
Feeding ducks at the park? First, do no harm.
What should you do if you see ducks getting tossed bread scraps at your local picnic spot?
Are you all ears? How to recognise five common New Zealand bird calls
Five commonly-heard calls from native bird calls you might have encountered out in the bush this summer.
Profile: Martin Barwood, bird photographer
Martin Barwood is never happier than when he has a bird in the viewfinder. We caught up with the photographer to learn about what it’s like to encounter rare and reclusive bird species up close.