Fragrant Fennel & Recipes

Fragrant Fennel & Recipes

Walk through many home gardens across the Eastern Bay and you’ll spot silverbeet (chard ), lettuce, broccoli and maybe rhubarb. But fennel? That still feels a little exotic to many New Zealanders. Why is that?  Partly because fennel has long been associated with...

It’s All About Persimmons + Recipes

By Paula Sharp, Nutritional Therapist There’s something quietly luxurious about biting into a perfectly ripe persimmon. Sweet, smooth, and almost honeyed in flavour, it’s a fruit I’ve loved since I was a little girl. When we moved home from the UK, my children took...
How’s your gut?

How’s your gut?

“All disease starts in the gut”, this is a refrain that often repeats itself in my head from my training over a decade ago. We often take the body for granted and many of us ignore signs that the body is ‘under par’.  This is very typical through our young adult...