Fruit

At this time of year our fruit trees are groaning. But it can sometimes be a tall order to gather the harvest before it falls. Coming to the rescue: Community Fruit Harvesting. These are regionally… Video, Audio, Gallery

Sixty food and wine lovers spend a morning picking, foraging, digging, fishing and even shooting a host of foods in the Waipara Valley. In the afternoon eight top chefs convert the fresh bounty into… Audio, Gallery

Sixty food and wine lovers spend a morning picking, foraging, digging, fishing and even shooting a host of foods in the Waipara Valley. In the afternoon eight top chefs convert the fresh bounty into… Audio, Gallery

Robyn and Robert Guyton work on the Open Orchard Project, which involves documenting, grafting and growing heritage apples, pears and plums from around the southland. Audio, Gallery

The Government has increased the amount of cash it will spend providing fruit to students in low decile schools. Audio

Charlie Owen's fruit is ready a few weeks ahead of most other Hawkes Bay orchards, He grows apples, nectarines, apricots, peaches and plums for the domestic market in a micro-climate a few kilometres… Audio

Di Celliers set up a community group four years ago, collecting produce from people with excess fruit and vegetables growing in the garden and delivering it to schools and foodbanks. This year the… Audio

Mark Christensen of the Heritage Food Crops Research Trust is rediscovering healthier fruit and vegetables among heirloom varieties forgotten by the modern food production system. Audio

Debbie Campbell was a jet-setting corporate businesswoman until she swapped her heels for gumboots when she bought Bay Subtropicals. It is a seven hectare BioGro certified organic property near Takaka… Audio

Anu Anand lives in India where the jackfruit's being heralded as the way to fight world hunger. Also the country's low budget space mission to Mars puts other efforts to shame. Audio

A pilot food processing plant will help in the hunt for bioactive compounds from fruit processing waste such as apple skins. Audio