Picking your own produce is all about timing and technique.

The weather has been kind in the run-up to this year's Ellerslie Flower Show, and the organisers are confident they can build on the success of last year's show.

A local horticulturist is plotting to remove the blandness from our gardens.

Food prices increased 2.1 per cent in January, Statistics New Zealand said today.

Five winegrowers specialising in five separate grape varieties have joined forces to market their brands to the world's fussiest wine drinkers.

BioVittoria, the Hamilton-based biotech firm, has pushed out the closing date for its initial public offering.

Hamilton-based natural sweetener company Biovittoria is further extending the closing date of it share offer.

New Zealand's only tea plantation is now certified organic in time to begin exporting its harvest.

Richard Procter, chief executive of Kiwifruit NZ, the regulator charged with ensuring that kiwifruit marketer Zespri plays by the rules, has no regrets.

Ngati Whatua has given up part of its land at Bastion Point for homeless people to grow vegetables for the City Mission's foodbank.