The Nelson Training Centre is a great education facility that focusses on helping young people enter the hospitality workforce, it gives them focus and sets these young people on a pathway that can lead to a lot more than making great food and coffee.

Some of this region’s coolest business are tiny, run by owners who have a huge amount of passion for their business, Acoustic Brewery is one.

Do you like a little spice in your life? If you do, then Rata Farms has something to really light…

I totally understand councils need to carry out repairs and maintenance on local roads and sometimes I get a little…

ZUMO Coffee Roasters was established in 2006 by Dan Slattery and he quickly followed the roasting business with a small…

When Nelson’s favourite French couple, Greg and Mylene Auphan, sold Rustic Cuisine on Rutherford St Ian and Pam White picked…

Bob’s Rock Vineyard is a tiny producer tucked away on a hillside location at Ngatimoti. Producing less than 200 cases…

It all started with a home-built bread oven in the backyard… Bread is one of those staples of life, and…