Seeds

Geraldine farmers Gerald and Judy Pemberton grow Komatsuna radish seeds for South Pacific Seeds, a specialist hybrid vegetable seed production company based in Methven. The company also donates some… Audio

There have been a number a shock upsets in the first three days of the women's ASB tennis Classic in Auckland, with three of the top four seeds already knocked out of the competition. Here to tell us… Audio

'The Triumph of Seeds' is the name of Thor Hanson's book describing how grains, nuts, kernels, pulses and pips have shaped human history. Audio

International potato industry expert Professor Gary Secor of the Plant Pathology Department at North Dakota State University is a keynote speaker at the The Potatoes NZ Inc. annual conference in… Audio

Anna Butterfield sees seeds as cultural artefacts, each bean or basil seed carrying the story of its cultivation. And when you consider there are 300 000 edible plants in the world - and we only eat… Audio

Jane Toll of the Global Crop Diversity Trust, works for one of the organisations that oversees The Svalbard Global Seed Vault. It stores 825,000 samples from more than 200 crops in the permafrost on a… Audio

For the past 25 years Kay Baxter and her husband Bob Corker have been saving New Zealand's heritage fruit trees and vegetables at Koanga Gardens in Kaiwaka. But five years ago they decided they needed… Audio