24 April 2025
New Zealand needs a national food strategy to address the fact that a third of New Zealanders need food banks or financial help to obtain enough food.
23 April 2025
Vegetables NZ is proud to support EATucation on its mission to ensure every Kiwi kid leaves school vegetable literate! EATucation gives learners a food literacy pathway from early childhood to…
2 April 2025
Mike Chapman, a previous HortNZ CE and now Chair of NZ Ethical Employers, echoes Vegetables NZ's position on food security.
1 April 2025
What’s happening here? Law changes – the Incorporated Societies Act 2022 – as well as practice changes – for example, the use of Zoom – have required VNZI to update…
3 March 2025
Vegetables NZ Chair, John Murphy (left) and HortNZ GM Policy and Strategy, Michelle Sands appeared in front of the Environment Committee on 3 March.
The vegetable product group collaboration project is moving ahead, with the announcement that James Kuperus has been appointed Project Manager.
24 February 2025
A study of plant-parasitic nematodes in kūmara will help growers to be proactive, which will prevent crop loss.
21 February 2025
It’s time that people saw vegetables as 'health on the shelf, not cost on the shelf’, says one of New Zealand’s most prominent vegetable growers.
A single male Oriental fruit fly has been detected in a surveillance trap in Birkdale, on Auckland’s North Shore.
20 February 2025
New Zealand’s vegetable growers are welcoming the commitment in the coalition Government’s Q1 Action Plan to make “decisions on new national direction for freshwater and pragmatic rules for on-farm water…
