From urban farms to supermarkets, SHOOTS microgreens is disrupting the fresh food industry with New Zealand’s first live in-store grow system.

From urban farms to supermarkets, SHOOTS microgreens is disrupting the fresh food industry with New Zealand’s first live in-store grow system.

Set to revolutionise the fresh food industry, local Wellington business, SHOOTS is launching its first live microgreen grow system in-store from this June. With up to 100 times more nutrients than fully grown plants, microgreens are tiny versions of the vegetables you know and love.

LOCKDOWN SPARKS NEW APPROACH SUPPORTING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

LOCKDOWN SPARKS NEW APPROACH SUPPORTING YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH

A free virtual conference and online programmes are two of the new IHEART solutions that enable a message of innate health and resilience to be shared during lockdown. In New Zealand, 11 newly certified IHEART facilitators are actively promoting the virtual conference ‘Finding Emotional Freedom in Lockdown’, starting at 10am UK time on Wednesday 1 April, via a new Facebook page.

Wainuiomata twins aim to use their WelTec skills to change the workplace to a force of good in construction trades.

Wainuiomata twins aim to use their WelTec skills to change the workplace to a force of good in construction trades.

WelTec construction trades graduates, twin brothers Isaac and Malachi Paku from Wainuiomata, want to share the skills, knowledge and values they have learnt from tutors and employers with their colleagues in the construction industry and create working environments which are safe and supportive - for all types.

Welcome vote of support for Wellington fale malae

Welcome vote of support for Wellington fale malae

Wellington City Council’s vote yesterday to support the establishment of a twenty-first-century fale malae, a focal point for Pasifika culture in the heart of the capital’s parliamentary precinct, has been welcomed by those leading the project, including founding partner Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington.