The secretive native bird living on the edge of distinction, the bittern or matuku. Can you spot it in the photos?

It's a big deal sending your baby out into the world. It's exciting and scary and expensive. Wiremu WEka Treks the Alps is my third book.

I've been teaching grandson Alex the art and science of growing flowers and vegetables. He's proud of his first harvest.

My first ‘adventure’ alone with my four-year old grandchild Zara to the local shops where, wincing, I bought an extra-large gift for myself

Recently I launched my new children’s book Wiremu Weka Treks the Alps in the Tauranga Art Society rooms. Being an artist as well as a writer, and seeing I ha...

This story is from: North & South Magazine – NOTED In a small part of the Bay of Plenty works a man who can make satin and lace from wood. Walking through Ke...

I’ve moved from a cottage on a farm in Katikati to a brick refurbished 1961-design home in Central Tauranga. Quite a change for someone who likes the rural f...

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Today in our local Farmers Weekly paper November 5, 2018 the first para says ‘Fonterra achieved a positive result in only one ...

Beach Rhythms at Mount Maunganui at 5pm The way ranks of clouds saunter across the sky The way sand ripples reflect dark shadows onto gleaming white The way ...

The Whanganui River is about to become a legal entity in its own right. Te Awa Tupua is an environmental settlement recognising the intrinsic value of the aw...

It looked like a humpback whale to both the Maori and Captain James Cook, who charted New Zealand for the first time in the far-back 1780s for the British Ad...

We volunteers met at the kohanga, the hut where the supplies are kept for the pest eradication project for the Aongatete Forest Restoration. We’re put in gro...

It was supposed to be a rat-station baiting  day in the forest, but a previous check by volunteers found only two rats had been caught! The forest was safe f...

Reflections in Lake Brunner, Westland Noel at the Permablitz, Papamoa Rock Gardens Congratulations to all those people who stood up for the environment and p...

The old Te Aroha bath house nestled beneath the mountain. Now it’s a museum. Te Aroha snuggles beneath the moutain bearing the same name on the Waikato side ...

Doing the duckboard walk In the eastern Bay of Plenty a small river runs beside the road towards the estuary, creating a swampy area edged with rushes and ma...

Have you ever wished to get away from it all, get into nature and escape into solitude? Probably, and I’m there now for two weeks, minding a garden and a B&B...

The Green Wizard in casual mode The Green Wizard of Tauranga and I were having a cup of coffee when this bright idea came to mind: “What if I turned my blog ...

I’m launching my first book ‘Doctor Peter’s Good Earth Magic’ at the second New Zealand Independent Writers Book Fair in Auckland this weekend. It’s at the N...