Nelson Magazine - July 2019 by Top South Media

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NELSONâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;S LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE

SECOND HAND FASHION

THE COMPOST KING

KAI RESCUE

A fashion show with an up-cycle twist

Helping nature recycle

Minimising food waste in our community

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CONTENTS F E AT U R E S 7

SECOND – HAND FASHION A fashion show with an up-cycle twist

GO CLUBBING Forget the night clubs, this is clubbing with books

10–11

TRADING PLACES More women are picking up the tools, and loving it

KAI RESCUE Taking good food and putting it to a great cause

26–27

COMPOST KING One mans hobby sparks a smelly passion

28–29

HELP OUR PLANET How to be sustainable

10–11 7

REGULAR 14

What’s On

On The Street

30–35

At Home

Food and Lifestyle

37 Recipe 38–39

Social Pages

40 Gardening 41 Health

26–27

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30–35

EDITOR’S NOTE

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s a region the reality of climate change has been lapping at our back door step – literally. Floods, droughts, fires – we’ve experienced them all in the past year or two and while the solutions seem overwhelming, looking after our environment has never been more in focus. And as the planet heats up, it’s never been cooler to be sustainable. I’ll be honest here, I missed plastic bags a little when they first went out of circulation and I often forget my reusable coffee cup. But I’m getting better.

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After our recent drought I do my best to save water, I never buy bottled water, food scraps go to our chickens or the compost and I love buying

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second hand, and get great satisfaction donating items to the op shop so they can be used again. Becoming more sustainable is a journey I’m enjoying and I firmly believe that we need to use our resources wisely so our future generations will have them to live. Our world is in serious need of our help and we can all do our bit to pitch in. In this month’s mag we feature some local people doing pretty cool things around sustainability. And also feature plenty of ideas of ways you can be more eco friendly too. Happy living everyone.

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YOUR SAY

How have you cut down on plastic?

John-Paul Pochin

Kris Roberts

Nick Milne

Nichola Brydon

Where I shop and how much I’m prepared to make food from scratch has a big bearing on how much plastic I end up throwing away. Shopping at the farmers market (the Vegetarian Butcher is great) is a great way to reduce packaging but supermarkets, like Fresh Choice are making some progress.

I buy milk in glass bottles and make my own yoghurt. I also use wax wrappers instead of glad wrap.

We grow our own fruit and vegetables and have decreased our meat intake much of which is hunted. We are minimising our use of plastics and packaging in daily life and decreasing the amount of products that we buy, preferring to have less, better quality, belongings.

Our kids have Bento lunchboxes, so no glad wrap is needed and my husband and I both have a couple of keep cups each for our coffees. I will always carry a Zen bag folded up in my hand bag.

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Growing your own fruit and vegetables in an eco-friendly way will help the environment and your own health in many ways. The Nelson City Council has been using fruit and nut trees in their planting plans for over 25 years. You can view maps of where you can collect produce such as almonds, strawberries, grapes, figs, herbs and more on the Nelson App. Click on Things To Do, For Kids then Edible Walks.

Sonya Leusink Sladen and Sinead Ogilvie check out racks of second-hand clothes at the IHC Charity shop in Stoke.

A SECOND-HAND RUNWAY SHOW Reusing clothes is hardly a new craze, but next month Nelson business Socially NZ along with fashion stylist Sonya Leusink Sladen will attempt to take it to a new level, by creating catwalkworthy outfits from secondhand clothing stores around Nelson.

ld clothes will be used for a new fashion show in a bid to raise money for charity early next month. The fashion show at the Boathouse on August 3 will feature a group of wellknown Nelsonians wearing outfits sourced locally from charity op-shops.

was a visual, relevant and effective way to bring attention to the issue. “We realised we have so many women and men in our community whom we look up to – they’re influencers in the region. Why not challenge them to take part in something with such a good message and cause, driving people to include charity shopping in their day to day purchase choices?” For Sonya, who is a keen vintage clothing treasure hunter, it was a no brainer. “I have always wanted to style a ‘proper’ fashion show and shoot using second-hand clothes. When Sinead approached me and asked if I might like to be involved, well, I said ‘hell yes!’” “Winter gets us all thinking about making some cosy, fashionable purchases. It’s a shame that we sometimes overlook charity shopping for various reasons. But we have loads of op-shops here in Nelson and Tasman, all benefitting great causes. We could all do better by supporting them more often.”

The event is called Styled By and was dreamt up by Socially NZ. It will be hosted in collaboration with Sonya Leusink Sladen – a well known fashion stylist and blogger for Silk Purse Oily Rag – who will bring the show to life.

Following the initial runway feature event, all looks will be wheeled out on clothing racks to transform the Boathouse into a pop-up boutique. “Our event attendees will be able to browse the looks they’ve just seen and some extras Sonya curates specifically for purchase on the day,” says Sinead.

Encouraging sustainability was one of the main drivers for the event says organiser Sinead Ogilvie, and fashion

The models you will see on the Styled By runway include Matt Lawrey (Nelson City councillor), Andrew Board (Publisher

We have loads of opshops here in Nelson and Tasman, all benefitting great causes. We could all do better by supporting them more often. and managing director of Nelson Weekly, Nelson App), Amy Cunningham (Benjamin Black Goldsmiths), Ali Boswijk (Chamber of Commerce chief executive), Mike Lash (rugby referee) and more. Matt Lawrey spoke highly of the events second-hand concept and felt it a natural fit to be involved. “Not only was I flattered to be asked but I’m really impressed with the concept and I think it’s going to be a lot of fun. I love the fact it’s going to benefit charities, I love that it has an environmental message and I love that it’s going to give Sonya Leusink Sladen an opportunity to show off just how clever she is because, seriously, that woman knows how to put an outfit together.” All proceeds from the event will go to the local charities associated with the op-shops involved. Tickets cost $55 and are available through visiting Styled By on Eventbrite.co.nz. Each ticket includes a glass of bubbles on arrival, grazing table nibbles and a goodie bag.

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GO CLUBBING Forget the bright lights and late nights. For Lucy Mitchell, it’s not night clubs that fill her social calendar, but book clubs.

t’s a bitingly cold early June night, but inside, a roaring fire keeps the old church-turned-pub toasty. It smells like curry and good beer, there’s an Irish jam group tuning up in one corner and some kind of enormous mountain dog moving from table to table begging scraps. It’s book club night, the highlight of my social life in these dark winter months and it’s a cliché, I know, but there’s a real release in stepping through those doors, ordering a pint and sharing in a good book. There seem to be as many ways to run a book club as there are clubs running. Some are strict – you must read the book by a set date and come prepared to defend your opinion. Some work to a theme – travelogues this month, a memoir next and there’s the option to subscribe to the Book Discussion Scheme (bgs.org.nz), which, for a fee, will send our box sets of books and notes so all members can read and discuss the same book at the same time. All have their benefits and can be tailored to suit the members, and if you don’t have a book club, but want to join one, talk to neighbours, co-workers or friends. There are bound to be others who are yearning for that monthly release too!

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My group has done a few themed months (who knew it was so hard to find “happy” books?) but find it’s just as conducive to a robust discussion when we simply bring along what we’ve been reading since we last met. On any given night we might pick through the poems of Leonard Cohen, debate the merits of the latest Pulitzer Prize winner, vent our frustrations at the blatantly disparate ways male and female detectives are portrayed in popular fiction, and drool over a gorgeous new book on the history of fabric. Our tastes are broad, and for every “big mac” read which feels good when you read it but leaves you hungry for something more filling after, there is a memoir on dying, or a glimpse into a battle with depression. You may find, like I have, that your book club becomes something more than that and you find yourself organising weekends away to a book festival in Mapua to hear Booker Prize nominee Lloyd Jones and essayist Ashleigh Young (amongst others) speak. “We need a hot tub! And wine!” a member called out to me as we were leaving the last meeting. We’ve been to movies, talks, and to a one woman, Jane Austen musical.

Reading has been proven to improve empathy, encourage civic participation and may even help stave off degenerative conditions like Alzheimer’s and dementia, and I would argue, that when you add in the social aspect of a book club-the support and camaraderie, you get a whole other range of benefits too.

Lucy’s favourites: 1. Fantasy The Rift, by Rachael Craw. A brilliantly crafter fantasy thriller by a local Nelson author. My fiction pick of 2018.

2. Thriller The Lost Man, by Jane Harper.

A slow burn family drama set in the deep Outback, from one of Australia’s hottest new writers.

3. NZ Fiction This Mortal Boy, by Dame Fiona Kidman.

The moving story of one of the last men executed for murder in New Zealand. Winner of the 2019 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards Acorn Foundation Fiction Prize.

4. Memoir Educated, by Tara Westover.

One women’s story of her life growing up outside the system and her joys at discovering education.

FEATURE

TRADING PLACES Words: Britt Coker

Apprentice electrician Hannah Cook working on the tools at a central Nelson home.

Work in an office? Some women would rather watch paint dry. Britt Coker investigates.

here’s a video clip feeding Facebook that shows a class full of primary children asked to draw pictures of a pilot, a surgeon and a firefighter and then the real deals walk into the room and the children look genuinely shocked to discover they are staring at three women. Between them, the kids drew 61 pictures of men and five pictures of women in those roles. Builders, electricians and other trade jobs are also seen by children as roles predominantly for men. Studies suggest gender stereotypes like these are defined in young minds by the age of eight. The latest New Zealand census statistics available (2013) reflect these stereotypes, with women in the minority when it comes to most trades however, change is afoot. NMIT enrolments of women in mechanical, civil, automotive, aviation engineering and construction trade courses have increased by 50 per cent from 2015 to 2018. Hannah Cook was a physiotherapist but found, while she was helping clients increase their movement, her own job

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lacked it. So she packed it in in the pursuit of something less sedentary. Hannah made a strategic move to avoid returning to university which she says, would have generated a student loan at the end of it. Instead, the idea of a trade appealed. Reflecting on her love of fixing things, she figured being a sparkie might be the job for her. Hannah talked to a couple of electricians that she knew and then followed it up with some work experience. She is now ten months into a three year apprenticeship and loving it. “No day is the same, and nothing is very straight forward. It can be quite physical too, especially if you have to crawl under the house or in the attic to get to things but women are generally smaller so we can get into those tight spaces in buildings.” She admits people she meets are usually astonished to hear she gave up a job as a physiotherapist to become an electrician but other than that, ‘they think it’s pretty cool.” “Customers can make or break your day but most people are really friendly and they love to see a female electrician

on the job.” She’s the only one in her company but knows of four others working in Nelson. At Brumwell Painting, three out of the seven painters in the crew are women. Kerri Swale has been painting for seven years and Pip Parker started her apprenticeship two months ago. The women rank the main upsides as variety of tasks and skills, the absorption in a task that attention to detail provides, and the overall sense of accomplishment they get living in a job of ‘before’ and ‘after’ moments. Kerri sees it as a great option for those who like a challenge. “Going into an old house and having to repaint it and when you’re finished, looking back and going, ‘Wow we did this’. It takes a lot of skill and patience and then when the owners come in and they say

Most people are really friendly and they love to see a female electrician on the job Hannah Cook

‘That looks fantastic’, that’s what I love; that’s cool.” Pip feels it’s more acceptable now for people to do whatever role they want and cites an increase in men in retail roles and women in trades as being much more common place. “You didn’t use to see that many men at the checkout, but you didn’t see as many women in trades either. I think it’s more acceptable to be whatever you want to be, really.” She hopes there is a flow on effect, as more women take on the jobs traditionally filled by men. “It’s giving women more confidence. If they see them out there doing it, then they realise they can do it as well.” Kerri knows seven other women employed as painters in Nelson. Company owner, Adam Brumwell tries not to generalise but notes his female staff are great with the finer detail and ‘are definitely really good with dealing with clients’.

Adam only hired his first woman painter a year ago but says a recent job vacancy in the company saw three out of the ten applications submitted by women, and a notable increase in women tradies across the industry. Apart from the typical work ethic that every employer looks for, he’s seeking staff that are passionate about the job and have personal pride in their work. New Zealand is staring down the barrel of a trade shortage with an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 tradespeople required throughout the country over the next few years. In June there were 85 trade vacancies listed on Trade Me. Meanwhile, if tertiary enrolment figures continue to trend upwards for women in trades, we can only hope it will eventually be long-held societal stereotypes that drop and not the faces of young children staring at women in overalls.

Pip Parker and Kerri Swale are two of the three women in the team at Brumwell Painting.

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For full information, and a complete list of events in our region, visit www.itson.co.nz

Boat house 5 July (eventfinda), Mussel Inn 6 July (doorsales).

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ISEL MARKET MIDWINTER CHRISTMAS MARKET

NZTRIO TECTONIC SHIFT

Great food, hot coffee, local crafts and fresh produce all wrapped up in beautiful Isel Park. 11am-3pm.

Join the newly reformed ensemble NZTrio as Ashley Brown (cellist) welcomes new members and extraordinary Kiwi musicians, violinist Amalia Hall and pianist Somi Kim. The trio bring a programme rich with musical story-telling about empires and superpowers and the fundamental forces that shape Aotearoa. 7:30pm. Tickets from TicketDirect.

Isel Park, Stoke, Nelson

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DOLLS HOUSES AND MINIATURES SHOW AND SALE

JOHN THOMSON AND MONICA CHANG – THE EMANON DUO

It’s a small world - replicas, scale models, room boxes, dolls houses, collections, displayed by Nelson and Christchurch Miniatures Clubs and guest exhibitors. Raffle, free workshop and competition for children. Adults $5, children $2. 10am-4pm

Based in Auckland John and Monica have performed in various venues over the past three years. These diverse composers will present their recital “The French Connection,” celebrating music for violin and piano. A perfect way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

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Sarau Winter Sale Second-Hand Books

Pre-Loved Clothing and a Cosy Cafe

LEVITY BEET – MUSICAL INVENTION SHOW

27-28 July SARAU WINTER SALE Second hand books, pre loved clothing and a cosy café. 11am-3pm.

Wowing adults and children alike using newly invented instruments, this humorous 45 minute show will have your children mesmerised and charmed. Tickets just $10 (+ service fee).

NCMA, 48 Nile St, Nelson

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DOUBLE DOSE OF

Goodness Kai Rescue co ordinator Viv Rounce works with volunteer Peter Riley to sort food for local charities.

Words: Joanna Davis

At Kai Rescue, keen eco-warriors are keeping waste from landfill and also filling hungry tummies. “

ice caulis!” a volunteer calls out, inspecting a crate of food being delivered to the Nelson Environment Centre. She is one of five volunteers at the centre’s warehouse this morning, redistributing into boxes the fresh food delivered by truck every weekday morning. Today there are flowers among the fruit and vegetables, but only a few, so one of the drivers offers them to a volunteer. Co-ordinator Viv Rounce shows me the boxes marked Women’s Centre, Salvation Army, Women’s Refuge and one for a school breakfast club. Forty-five local charities are recipients of the food. Viv says she loves the fact that Kai Rescue serves two purposes. “All this food is not going to landfill and people in the community are supported. It’s like a double whammy - a double dose of goodness.”

Environment centre manager Anton Drazevic runs through the figures for the operation which has been running for just over two years. In that time, Kai Rescue has collected more than 215 tonnes of food that would otherwise have gone to landfill, and they have grown to the point that they now deliver the equivalent of 6,680 meals a week. Most of it is perishable fruit and vegetables, baked goods, or fish and meat that needs to be turned over quickly before it hits its useby-date. Anton says while it’s a social good, they are not a social service. “We’re here to reduce waste.” He says the quality of food is high.

Anton says the organisation will be doing a month-long funding campaign later this year to raise $60,000 to keep the programme going. “We’re looking for a new premises at the moment. The current one is limiting our capacity for growth,” he says. Anton says he’s excited by the fact that one company has already offered to pay for the walk-in freezer unit that would replace the seven chest freezers they currently use. “There’s a lot of goodwill around what we’re doing. The community needs to know where we’re at, and then hopefully they’ll support us.”

“We were getting lettuces that were deemed 2cm too big, and the farmers can’t take them back. We recently received ¼ tonne of B grade apples and pears. Rather than throwing them on the ground as fertiliser, they dropped them to us.” Anton says funding the $100,000 a year operation is an ongoing challenge. “There’s a perception that because the food is donated it doesn’t cost anything to run. “But we have vans, employed staff, insurance, fridge freezers - all these things cost money.”

People who wish to donate to Kai Rescue can do so. Visit the Nelson Environment Centre’s website nec.org.nz.

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ON THE STREET

Miki Tregurtha, fashion designer and travel writer, and Micaela Zeewoldt, mum to three.

Describe each piece you are wearing and where each item is from.

MIKI: The white shirt use to be my husbands and the hand printed striped linen trousers and the jude hand bag are made by myself. The beret is from France, a gift from my mother in law and my favorite wooden flame watch is from MAM.

MICAELA: I generally think things

MICAELA: My jacket is an item I’ve

through. Money is not as disposable with three young kids, so I have to choose stuff a bit more wisely than I once did.

had for probably close to 10 years. My husband bought it for me from Gizmos when we first started going out, and I love it. My jumpsuit is from ASOS, and it was marked down from $140 to just $50! My Docs are from Taylors Shoes. I have two pairs (these white ones plus a soft pink leather pair) and I alternate them all winter.

What is your all time favourite purchase?

MIKI: My favorite hand knit wool jacket which has the perfect design and is super warm.

MICAELA: A sequined jacket I bought from Trouble and Fox about six years ago. I ummed and ahhhed about it at the time, but it’s my most stand-out item, and people always comment on it.

What is your style?

MIKI: Being comfortable is very important for my style. It is not just for the shape of clothes. I mean, my clothes need to be made by natural and sustainable material. Also, the design needs to make me feel elegant, happy and fun. I follow this philosophy when I buy and make my clothes.

MICAELA: Feminine with a bit of an edge? I like ‘pretty’ things, but I like to contrast them with something that other people might not choose. What is most of your wardrobe made up of?

MIKI: I have a small wardrobe. I have a few dresses and a few simple tops and share some shirts with my husband. I like to have some colour on my shoelaces or hat or accessories for fun. MICAELA: Jeans and t-shirts! I’m a fulltime mum, so I need to wear practical stuff where it doesn’t matter if it gets too messy. What are you loving at the moment?

MIKI: Oversized shirts and linen clothes. Also, handmade knit jackets from local op shops are such a treasure.

What wardrobe item should everyone invest in?

MICAELA: I’m a bit obsessed with sequins. What are you dressed for today?

MIKI: Your favourite shaped white shirt. You can make many styles with one shirt.

MICAELA: A really good coat. It will last

MIKI: Meeting with friends and meetings

for years if you buy something decent.

for work. I will try to avoid wearing a white shirt for my kids playdates.

Do you have a style rule you always obey?

MICAELA: Catching up with some

MIKI: Wear clothing which has a long

friends for dinner and a few drinks.

try to support local brands.

life, and I like to cover my skin with natural material as much as possible. Also clothing needs to be able to be returned to the land after they have completed their life as clothes.

MICAELA: Trouble and Fox is my

MICAELA: Not so much a rule, but I try

Where do you buy most of your clothes from?

MIKI: Mainly from local op shops and I

favourite Nelson store. These days I buy a lot of stuff online, largely due to convenience. ASOS is my favourite online store.

and avoid buying things that everyone else is wearing. The worst thing a sales person can say to me is, “that item is really popular.”

What is your approach to shopping?

Finish this sentence – You would never catch me wearing…

MIKI: I normally research what kind of style I want to have every season before I go shopping. If I know and will be able to focus to find the style it saves a lot of time.

MIKI: Disposable clothes. MICAELA: Crocs! I’m sure everyone says that, but there’s a reason!

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OF COMPOST

Ben Bushell still remembers the sight of a steaming pile of compost in his grandparents’ backyard. Far from being a traumatic experience, for Ben, it became a defining one.

Words: Charles Anderson

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couldn’t understand, I thought it was on fire,” he says. “I was so intrigued by it.”

What was happening was a mass of biology all working together to breakdown nitrogen and carbon. The result, when you get enough of it, is a steaming pile. There are now four such steaming piles up the Brook Valley. They are a testament to Ben’s love of compost. While he admits that this is not such a great pick up line, he does not shy away from highlighting its importance. “There is 9000 tonnes of foodwaste that is going to landfill every year,” he says. “When it goes in it creates methane that is 86 times more damaging than co2. Everyone talks about carbon emissions and how terrible they are but this methane is worse and it’s completely ignored.” So three years ago when the full-time joiner arrived in Nelson from England, he started thinking about what he could to do make a difference. He found a space in the Waimarama Community Gardens and set about building a team of volunteers to find enough compostable food waste to start something literally grass roots.

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Ben Bushell has been building a small army of composting volunteers in the Brook Valley.

Community Compost was born. Every Friday a volunteer picks up compostable food waste from

This is urgent. We have to plug all these holes that we are damaging the environment with. Everyone produces foodwaste so everyone can help. Ben Bushell 20 homes and five businesses around town. Then they will deposit it up the Brook and Ben will get to work getting the right mix of biology to turn that waste into living soil that it can be used on organic gardens. It doesn’t take long for those piles to reach their optimum temperature of between 58c and 65c. “There is that much biology in there working together,” Ben says. “They are living and breathing, there is a whole universe of activity that creates that heat.” Within three days it’s steaming and in the summer Ben has to come down after work to turn the compost. Otherwise it gets too hot and all the nutrients die. In the winter he and the volunteers need to turn it once a week.

dairy and oils. Those attract pests which upsets the process. “We even can take compostable cups,” says Ben. Because it might surprise you that even though many cafes around Nelson will offer compostable cups, there is no facility able to compost them. Ben can - but only a few at a time. Not surprisingly, Community Compost has a big vision for the future. But they can only handle so much. They have 150 households on the waitlist until they can scale up. Ben has asked the Nelson City Council for help but they told him it wasn’t in their plan.

He wants to purchase a composting machine that would allow him to compost 500 households. He has the demand, the business plan and the passion. Now he just needs the backing. “If I could do this full time then I would.” Ben says the compost can go back into converting farms to organic farms. “They need that biology in their soil and we are producing that every day.” He says far from just being a hobby – this is more of a calling, and one that is in desperate need of help. “This is urgent. We have to plug all these holes that we are damaging the environment with. Everyone produces foodwaste so everyone can help.”

“Ah I’ve missed that smell,” she says as the steam wafts around the valley. “That’s somewhat ironic but actually I sort of meant it. It’s a very satisfying and earthy smell. When you are sitting in front of a computer all day, this smell makes you feel like you’re making a difference in the world.” She says realistically no foodwaste should be going to landfill. “This is something that we can all do.” The pile is filled with every food scrap you can imagine – everything except meat,

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It’s a recent Wednesday evening and volunteer Clare Scott is digging into the pile.

Volunteers Matt Clements with Ben Bushell, Clare Scott and her children Alyssa and Jake.

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Environmental sustainability doesn’t mean living without luxuries but rather being aware of your resource consumption and reducing unnecessary waste. We’ve gathered some ideas on how you can do your bit to help the environment. PURCHASE LOCALLY What, when and where we buy items can make a significant difference on our environmental impact and for our community. Businesses selling locallyproduced food, products or services provide economic benefits that stay in the local communities. These businesses are more likely to be closely connected to and support their local communities in a variety of ways, as are their employees. Our purchasing power can also encourage more socially and environmentally friendly practices and energy efficiencies that are harder to monitor in imported goods.

RECYCLE OLD TOOTHBRUSHES AND TOOTHPASTE TUBES Toothbrushes are not accepted for kerbside recycling collection as they could contain traces of toothpaste but there is a way to recycle your old teeth scrubbers. Clinics at 32 Franklyn Street in Nelson, Nayland Primary School, Henley Primary School and Parklands Primary School in Motueka all accept old toothbrushes and toothpaste as part of the TerraCycle and Colgate oral care recycling programme.

RECYCLE E-WASTE It is estimated 80,000 tonnes of electrical and electronic waste is being disposed into landfills in New Zealand each year. E-waste contains heavy metals that are rare. E-waste also includes plastics that are blended with bromide and chloride based fire-retardants, these are toxic to the environment when they break down, and if they are heated with metals in scrap metal smelting they can form dioxins which are carcinogenic. Nelson City Council offer a $20 subsidy for the Nelson Environment Centre’s E-waste recycling service.

RECYCLE BREAD TAGS AND HELP WHEELCHAIR NZ Collect your old bread tags and drop them into Tahunanui Community Hub. The hub is a collection point for the charity Bread tags for wheelchairs NZ. Bread tags are high impact polystyrene, (type 6 plastic) and quite often end up in the landfill. Tags will be collected and sent to Bread tags for wheelchairs NZ. The bread tags are then sent to a recycler in South Africa which makes seedling trays and this provides funding for wheelchairs for those in need.

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BUILD YOUR OWN COMPOST OR WORM FARM Composting kitchen and garden waste could halve the amount of weekly household rubbish you produce, and save you money. You don’t have to pay for so many bags or bin loads, plus your garden will not need as much watering and will deliver a bumper crop of vegetables or flowers. It’s nature’s way of recycling unwanted food scraps and garden waste. Nelson and Tasman residents are entitled to one $20 subsidy when buying a compost bin, worm farm, worms or an EM Bokashi unit – this can only be claimed through an approved retailer at point of purchase.

RE-HOME YOUR UNWANTED HOUSEHOLD GOODS Second Hand Sunday is an opportunity to re-home household goods and is run by Nelson City and Tasman District councils. Simply sort the items you’d like to pass on, register your address and download the participant list the Friday before. Put your items on your driveway and collect whatever is leftover at the end of the day. The next Second Hand Sunday will be in September 2019, simply check out the Nelson City or Tasman District council website for more information.

CARPOOL AND SAVE ON PARKING Save on petrol costs - grab a friend and ride into town together. Carpooling is easy, especially if you already know someone from your neighbourhood, a workmate, or a family member who also comes to town. Nelson City Council has a great carpool system that rewards you with free parking in prime city locations. All you need to do is register your carpool with NCC via their website.

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FOOD & LIFEST Y LE I called our suppliers in Italy and had new stock in the air the very next day.” It took a lot of hard work, but they got back on track, stronger than ever. So much so, that it attracted the attention of interested buyers, and Iain sold the company.

THE COFFEE COMPANY – IT’S A BREW-TIFUL THING

Nelson after a stint of playing cricket in the Netherlands.

Ange Spori joined the company soon after it started, the beginning of a formidable team that was strengthened further when Iain’s son James recently returned to

Like all businesses, the story behind success is often best told in how they deal with adversity. “Our business was doing well, things looked good, until one night a fire broke out in the Everything Coffee warehouse in Tahunanui, destroying all of the stock. Coffee beans, coffee machines, we lost the lot,” says Iain. “We could have just packed our bags and quit, but instead

ain Graham cleverly recognised way back in 2003 that New Zealand’s love affair with the humble coffee bean was going to grow stronger and stronger, opening ‘Everything Coffee’, a business that supplied beans to machines, and all the in-betweens.

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But the coffee habit is a hard one to kick, and it wasn’t long before they started The Coffee Company. “We are a small, family-oriented business; it works, and we want to keep it that way. James looks after the wholesale side of things and Ange … she’s like a sister to me. Every business needs ‘an Ange’, keeping us all on track. We cover the whole field; the café or the home. People come to us and can get everything from advice to equipment. We deal with the top end stuff, rather than the cheap and cheerful.” A broad spectrum of coffee is imported direct from Italy, competitively priced and with the option of personalised blends. “We’re a one-stop-shop which prides itself on quality service and a premium product. Our coffee has had 200 hundred years of history - Molinari has been around since 1804,” says James. “Nearly every company we deal with, we’ve visited and have seen how their products are made.”

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WARM LAMB, CARROT & BEETROOT SALAD We call this a salad but it’s definitely a meal in itself. Prep: 15 mins Cook: 1 hour Serves 4-6 INGREDIENTS

TO SERVE

2-3 Quality Mark lamb rumps

¾ cup feta, crumbled

2 large beetroot

½ cup pine nuts, toasted (optional)

5-6 carrots, peeled and sliced

Extra mint leaves

3 cloves garlic, crushed 2 red onions, quartered 2 tablespoons sesame seeds 2 teaspoons poppy seeds 1 tablespoon honey, melted 1 cup cooked risoni/orzo or couscous 2 cups baby spinach DRESSING 2 tablespoons oil 1 tablespoon red or white wine vinegar 1 teaspoon honey 1 teaspoon Dijon mustard 2 tablespoons finely chopped mint

METHOD Preheat the oven to 180°C fan bake or 200°C conventional bake. Cut the top and tail off the beetroots and wrap in tinfoil. Place in the oven and bake for an hour. Add the carrots to a roasting dish with the garlic, onions, sesame seeds, poppy seeds, honey and 1 tablespoon oil. Mix it all up to coat evenly and season generously with salt and pepper. Bake in the oven along with the beetroot for the last 30 minutes. Remove everything and set aside. Increase the oven temperature to 200°C fan bake or 210°C conventional bake.

Season the lamb rumps with salt and pepper. Heat a little oil in a frying pan over a high heat. Add the lamb, fat side down, and cook for a few minutes until browned and crispy, and most of the fat is rendered out. Turn over and cook for another couple of minutes to brown the other side. Transfer to a roasting pan and roast in the oven for 13-15 minutes for medium. Remove from the oven, cover loosely with foil and rest for at least 10 minutes before slicing thinly across the grain. To make the dressing, whisk the ingredients together and season to taste. Mix the spinach and cooked risoni/orzo or couscous in a bowl with half the dressing. Rub the skin off the beetroot with your fingers and slice into thin wedges. Season with salt and pepper. Spoon some risoni/ orzo/couscous mixture on to plates or bowls, then top with roasted veges, beetroot and sliced lamb. Sprinkle with the feta, pine nuts and extra mint then drizzle with a little more dressing. For more delicious beef and lamb recipes, head to recipes.co.nz

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A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO

Worm farms are becoming an increasingly popular way to recycle organic household waste into a fantastic soil conditioner. The worm casts and “worm tea” they produce, is regarded by many gardeners as superfood for plants. Here’s how to make your own.

• Fruit and vegetable scraps

Tools:

• Dust from vacuum cleaners

• Garden fork and spade • Watering can or hose

• Covering each layer of food scraps with paper or soil will help reduce odour and flies hanging around.

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Materials: • Worm farm materials You can make one yourself by stacking tyres, boxes, or plastic tubs, or simply buy a plastic tiered bin from Mitre 10.

• 250g composting worms such as tiger worms. • Bedding materials such as shredded paper, egg cartons, straw, mature compost. • Food scraps • Select your worm farm materials. • Select a site that is sheltered from sun, wind and rain. • Start with a layer of bedding material such as hay, shredded cardboard or paper. • Dampen down the bedding material. • Add the worms

• Start adding in your food scraps (avoid citrus, meat, dairy, flour products, large amounts of cooked food or shiny paper).

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• Don’t over feed worms in the beginning, 200gm a day for 250gms of worms – as the population grows so can the volume of waste. • Make sure there is good ventilation for the worms but not light. When you take the lid off the bin you will notice the worms dive down into the scraps to get away from the light. • Make sure the worm farm remains moist. Soaking water/cardboard is a good idea. • You can put a tarp or old carpet over your worm farm during colder seasons to keep them warm. • After a few months the bottom layer should be full of worm casts. This can be added to your garden and will provide fantastic organic matter. • The liquid that catches in the tray – “worm tea” can be diluted at a rate of about 1:10 and used on your garden.

Suitable food • Coffee grounds, tea bags • Shredded napkins, tissues • Soaked newspapers or egg cartons • Hair clippings • Crushed egg shells

Not suitable food • Meat, fish, bones (they can eat meat, but it attracts rats vermin and flies • Dairy product or bread (attracts pests) • Onions (make the worm bin smell) • Citrus peel, tomatoes (very acidic) • Greasy foods, oil, fats • Twigs, branches, lawn clippings (can’t break down as easily) • Pet faeces (may contain worming chemicals or disease) • Processed wheat products

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Boxing GIVES BOYS A BOOST

Nelson’s youth boxing programme is giving boys a real workout, while also teaching them important values.

Words: Joanna Davis

he words on the gym wall are in huge font. They read: “Respect, responsibility, caring and determination”. Beneath them, about two dozen boys aged eight and up are busy skipping, sparring with a trainer, doing push ups, sit-ups and planks. Nine-year-old Harley-Hayes MacDonald is intent on his one-on-one session with Paul Hampton, hitting the pads with determination. Harley has been coming to the after-school classes for over two years now. His mother, Kelly Hayes, and Paul, the youth boxing gym’s founder, can both see positive changes in the boy, whose father is not present in his life on a day-to-day basis. Harley started the programme after getting in trouble fighting at school. He says he’s learnt to ignore the other kids now when things get heated. Paul says Harley was given the Victory Boxing singlet he’s wearing after showing the core values that are up on the wall. “They need to show those values in the gym, but more so outside of it.

she says. “At first I thought ‘Boxing?’ I didn’t see how that could help but the programme is non-contact. Paul is awesome with the kids and helped me in a meeting with the principal when Harley was in trouble at school.”

“Harley’s earned his shirt.”

Paul says the programme is especially good for boys who are missing male role models. It launched in the Vanguard St gym in 2013. There is also a popular girls group.

Kelly says the change in Harley has been amazing. “It’s boosted his confidence,”

Programmes such as this one are used in many parts of the world to help engage

troubled youth in a positive pursuit. The idea is to create opportunities and pathways to support young people to build self-esteem and confidence, and to reduce crime. At the end of the session, all the boys line up and shake the volunteer trainers’ hands. The trainers each choose one hard-working child to receive a Juicie. Harley receives one this week, but he doesn’t need the encouragement; he’s as keen as anything to keep on coming back, and to keep on doing his best.

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