I regularly come across new products that are being made and sold by people starting their own business but it isn’t often I find someone who is a little older, and should have retired years ago, creating a new business.…
Any business owner will tell you that to succeed you need to keep moving your business forward; if you sell a service then you need to make sure you keep improving and delivering value for money, but if you make…
At home we tend to eat a reasonable amount of vegetarian food, things like salads and risotto regularly appear on our dinner table but I am absolutely certain the one thing that will stop me ever becoming vegan is cheese.…
There are a huge range of eggs to choose from at the supermarkets, but in the Nelson Tasman region we are lucky to have a handful of outstanding free range egg producers whose operations are very small but the quality…
One of the things I have been happiest to see back in full operation as the country moves out of enforced isolation is the Nelson Farmers Market that is held every Wednesday in Kirby Lane, Bridge St. During level 2…
I first came across YUM Granola back in 2016 and wrote about them not long after I discovered their great breakfast products, a lot has happened with this business in the last four years so I figured it was time…
I realised recently that while we use a lot of Nelson produced olive oil at home I haven’t actually written about the small, but high quality, local olive oil industry or any of the dedicated producers in the region. It’s…
One of the things I love about writing this column is the surprising number of producers of fantastic product I find that I had no idea existed so when a Nelson Mail reporter sent me a website link asking if…
One of the things I love about writing this column is the surprising number of producers of fantastic product I find that I had no idea existed so when a Nelson Mail reporter sent me a website link asking if…