FAQ

Edible Landscapes.nz is New Zealand’s digital magazine for growers and good living — a seasonal publication on food forests, home gardens, orchards, farm edges, and kai resilience in Aotearoa. New Zealand's publication for growers & good living.

Home growers, lifestyle-block owners, orchard and farm families, community gardeners, designers, and anyone building more food into the places they already care for — especially in the Bay of Plenty and wider New Zealand.

Writing is organised in season editions — spring, summer, autumn, and winter. Each edition runs for thirteen weeks, with one piece published each week on design, soil, planting, harvest, and community kai. Open the current season from the home page, browse all seasons on Editions, and use the week list in each edition’s sidebar to move through the season.

Spring 2025 is the live season — 13 weeks. Thirteen weeks from last frost to first heat — planting, structure, and soil across Aotearoa. Open the edition to read week by week. Summer 2025–26, Autumn 2026, Winter 2026 are listed on Editions and will open as editorial is ready.

Each week stands alone — you can jump to the piece you need. The season is written to read in sequence if you want the full arc: one Southern Hemisphere season, week by week, from frost and soil through planting, harvest, water, people, and shade.

No. Everything lives inside its season edition. There is no standalone article archive or topics index — open an edition and pick a week. Old article URLs redirect to the correct edition page where one exists.

One piece per week during an active season — thirteen weeks per edition. When a new week lands, subscribers get a single Mailchimp note. No drip sequence, no ads.

Edible Landscapes is written from the Bay of Plenty — Te Puke and the wider western Bay — where orchards, lifestyle blocks, and home gardens share the same landscape. Editorial voice comes from practical food-forest, silvopasture, and community kai work, not a distant content desk. Guest contributors may appear as the publication grows.

Any designed place where food plants, soil, water, shelter, and people support each other over years — from a balcony herb strip or street-edge feijoa hedge to a layered food forest, a kiwifruit block with understorey, or a smallholding that folds stock, trees, and vegetables into one system.

Edible Landscapes sits inside the Vector Group Charitable Trust kai / food cluster. Kai Resilience is the regional hub; Food Forests NZ focuses on food-forest practice; Food Resilience School covers learning pathways. This site is the editorial layer for edible landscapes in depth.

The collective tools hub is at kairesilience.food/tools — planning, mapping, and practical helpers used across the network. Individual tools may live on their own domains; the hub is the place to start.

Use the Subscribe page. We send one note when a new week publishes — tagged for this publication only, not other Vector Group programmes. Every email includes an unsubscribe link.

Yes. RSS lists new edition weeks as they publish. Handy if you prefer a feed reader over Mailchimp.

Link and quote briefly with attribution. Full republication or commercial scraping needs written permission. See Terms of use for detail.

No. Edition pieces share design thinking and seasonal practice so you can adapt them to your site. Always check local biosecurity, council, and agronomic guidance before changing plantings, sprays, or stock systems.

Photography on this site is editorial — real place-based imagery, not AI-generated stock. Images are chosen to ground the writing in actual growing landscapes.

Vector Group Charitable Trust (CC45966) publishes Edible Landscapes as part of its charitable education and community-resilience work — Envisioning Sustainable Communities Creatively. The site is built by Te Puke Digital.

Only to send publication notices via Mailchimp. We do not sell your address. Details are in the Privacy notice; every email includes an unsubscribe link.

Email hello@ediblelandscapes.nz. For charity or partnership matters you can also start from vectorgroup.org.nz.