Now here’s a neat thing! Check out Mairead de Roiste’s very clever crochet mapping of Aotearoa’s soil lead as derived out of data from GNS’s Geochemical Atlas of Aotearoa New Zealand. We love that one of Mairead’s projects as part of her...
Now that Moss has communicated results back to all of the community gardens and māra that have been part of the Harvestsafe study, we can communicate the results to the public. We know that community gardens are important contributors to food security, public health,...
“Soil provides the food we eat, the clean water we drink, and the stable land we build upon – yet national stock takes suggest its health is under serious strain” – this is the opening line from Jamie Morton’s latest piece in Newsroom, which...
This month we received our 6000th soil sample for screening! We’ve now returned 6074 sample results to 1313 households! THANK YOU to everyone who has taken part and spread the word so that we might better know our soil, and think a bit more about why it’s...
We’re delighted to introduce you to Nicole! She recently joined our team as our new pXRF technician. She is also doing a PhD in Environmental Science looking at tara iti, Aotearoa’s most endangered bird species. She’s an outdoorsy sort, and is particularly...
In 2024 we’ve been working up a new project based on a pilot we ran in 2022 – this year we introduced the fully-fledged Harvestsafe Aotearoa! This 1-year project has been working alongside 50 māra kai and community gardens in Aotearoa to get a sense of...
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