Table of contents for Issue 89 Aug/Sep 2023 in Good

nataliewalton.com @mrs.evans.garden Shaun Barnett Shaun Barnett has tramped all over New Zealand, including a piecemeal traverse of Kā Tiritiri o te Moana/The Southern Alps. He is a former editor of Wilderness Magazine and the Federated Mountain Club’s Backcountry/FMC Bulletin, and the author of 10 books. His latest book, Tramping in Aotearoa: New Zealand’s Top 45 Tracks, showcases our best-known great walks, two of which feature on pages 94-97. Leah Evans Leah Evans lives in rural south Rotorua with her husband and teenage children, where they live off homegrown food year-round. Having grown her own vegetables for nearly 25 years, starting with a tiny patio garden, Leah has a solid background in how to get the most out of growing in spaces of any size. Her new book, Hands in the…

BECOME A BEANIE Magic Beans, a thriving community of home gardeners passionate about growing and sharing fresh produce, now has an app and has gone nationwide. Operating successfully in the Hawke’s Bay for more than seven years, Magic Beans has amassed a strong 5,000+ following which inspired co-founders Sarah Grant and Anneliese Hough to expand Magic Beans to serve all of New Zealand. The app provides a user-friendly platform where members (beanies) can showcase their surplus harvest, swap homegrown produce and gardening supplies, learn more about home food-growing and production, and connect with others seeking fresh, locally grown produce. The Magic Beans app is available for download FREE from the Magic Beans website. magicbeansapp.com CAFFEINE HIT A new sustainability initiative will see waste coffee grounds collected from New Zealand cafés…

Double the beauty Lily Lolo Lip and Cheek Cream, $39, brings the beautiful colour of a flower in bloom to your complexion. The hydrating cream formula feels petal-soft and dewy, is a dream to apply and blend, and leaves a long-lasting, fresh flush of colour on the lips and cheeks. Take your pick from a palette of bold and subtle shades inspired by some of nature’s most striking florals. lilylolo.nz Golden glow Following a successful crowdfunding campaign, IAMMI products are finally here. We’re loving IAMMI Olympia Glow Nourishing Serum (50ml), $85, an advanced hybrid formula that combines over 20 natural oils and extracts with a powerful pure hyaluronic acid for glowing skin. iammi.co Hydrating tint Sothys Organics certified organic Hydrating Tinted Care, $96, instantly enhances your natural skin appearance by…

3 WAYS WITH CARROTS + HOW TO GROW THEM Did you know that carrots are believed to have originated in Afghanistan around 900 AD, and that the earliest species were a dark purple or yellow? You do now! One of my favourite varieties to grow are the yellow carrots – I call them sunshine sticks. The orange carrots we know today as ‘normal’ carrots are thought to have been developed in Europe in the 15th and 16th centuries. Did your mum or dad tell you to eat your carrots so you could see in the dark? Well, there’s some truth in that because orange carrots are high in beta-carotene, which our bodies convert into vitamin A, which is vital to eye health. Yellow carrots are high in lutein, which is…

INDIAN CHICKEN CURRY WITH COCONUT MILK Gluten-free | Source of protein SERVES 6 1.5kg chicken2 tablespoons olive oil (garlic-infused or plain)¼ teaspoon fenugreek seeds10 fresh curry leaves1 cup spring onions (scallions) (green top only), finely chopped2 teaspoons finely grated ginger½ teaspoon chilli flakes1 teaspoon ground turmeric1 tablespoon ground coriander1 teaspoon ground cumin½ teaspoon fennel seeds2 teaspoon paprika½ teaspoon salt or to taste2 tablespoons white wine vinegar2 medium-sized tomatoes (common/truss), finely chopped4 cardamon pods, bruised2 strips lemon rind (without white pith)200ml coconut milk (fat reduced or full fat)1 tablespoon lemon juice½ cup basil or coriander leaves Chop the chicken into eight pieces, or ask a butcher to do it for you. Heat the oil in a heavy-based pot or casserole over low heat. Add the curry leaves and fenugreek seeds and…

The adage ‘you are what you eat’, – and I’d like to add ‘consume’, – came home for me recently when I decided to cut out alcohol for a bit. It was part of a plan to be healthier and shed some unwanted kilos that were beginning to put pressure on my joints and hamper my day-to-day movement and happiness. I committed to three months without alcohol, and then a funny thing happened. I regained so much energy that I’ve kept riding the wagon because I’m loving how fantastic I’m feeling. It’s like I’ve reclaimed a part of me that I thought had gone on permanent vacation, and any glumness has vanished. I didn’t even realise I was feeling glum until I stopped drinking alcohol. We celebrate with alcohol around…

LOCATION: EASTWEST.CO.NZ STRIKE A POSE Hold each pose for a minimum of three to five breaths and up to two minutes. 9 energising yoga poses to try at home. CRESCENT LUNGE From a standing position, step your left foot forward and your right foot back into a wide stance with your feet hip-width apart. Come onto the ball of your back foot and bend through your front knee until you’re nice and low. Keep your front knee in line with your hip. Then reach the arms up towards the ceiling and relax the shoulders down and back. The benefits: This is very grounding for the body. It promotes stability into the ankle joints as well as providing strength into the thighs and helps promote stamina in the body and mind.…

Sara Corleison Sara Corlieson is the founder and former owner of Tailor Skincare. Starting the company in her kitchen, she grew Tailor into one of New Zealand’s most loved and multi-award-winning natural skincare brands. Sara’s early adoption of a digital-first approach blazed a trail in the social media marketing space. After the sale in 2022, Sara’s passion for R&D and natural ingredient discovery remains strong. Sara now works with an exclusive set of clients to help founders and SMEs scale their businesses. Melissa Williams-King Melissa is a journalist with more than 20 years’ experience covering the beauty industry. She has held editor roles at Fashion Quarterly and SHE magazine, and worked as a beauty editor for multiple magazines including New Idea, Cleo, Girlfriend, Seventeen, Sunday and The Australian Women’s Weekly.…

FEELING SCENTED Scented candles have many benefits, including boosting your mood and creating a calming ambience in your home. Enhance your décor by pouring the wax into vintage glassware or teacups for an elegant look. An easy and satisfying project to do at home which also makes for a wonderful gift. WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • Candle tumblers such as jars, teacups, and thrifted vintage glassware • Wicks • Wick stickers or a hot glue gun • Popsicle sticks • Soy wax GW464 • Pot and stainless-steel bowl • Candy or digital thermometer • Fragrance (make sure this is designed for candle making) • Spatula • Scissors Step 1: Prepare your jars/glassware by cleaning and drying them thoroughly. Squirt a blob of glue from a hot glue gun to the bottom…

AUGUST • Before spring does arrive, there’s plenty to do to set your garden up for success. Preparing the soil is an important step. Blend compost into your garden beds and let it settle for a day or two before planting in it. • Get some slug and snail control pellets ready for your seedlings. • Early-season salad crops can be planted. If it’s still cool at your place, use a greenhouse to establish seedling or use cloches in the garden. • Harvest any root crops such as parsnips and carrots before they start to go to seed over the next month as the temperature increases. • Tray sow kitchen favourites such as broccoli, cabbage, spring onions, parsley, peas and onions. • Broadbeans and mustard crops can be sown directly…

CHICKEN FRICASSEE SERVES: 4 I PREP: 15 MINUTES I COOK: 50 MINUTES If I could bottle the sauce in this country-style French stew, I would! This is a dish taught to me by the super-talented chef Jean-Baptiste Alexandre. He was born, raised and trained in France, and now resides right here in my hometown of Sydney. So it goes without saying, this recipe is par excellence! Creamy, silky and rich with the flavours of chicken, herbs and wine, you’ll be mopping your plate clean with bread. While this is terrific made with store-bought stock, if you can manage homemade, I highly recommend it as it will catapult this dish into wow territory! 4 x 250 grams skin-on, bone-in chicken thighs14 x 150 grams chicken drumsticks11 teaspoon cooking salt½ teaspoon black…

THE FOOD FIX Yumi Stynes and Simon Davis, Murdoch Books, $45 Since its launch, 5 Minute Food Fix has consistently been among the most downloaded food podcasts in Australia. This book pulls together some of the best hits from the podcast as well as new recipes for busy cooks by providing real world dinner solutions for the exhausted! HEAD ON Carl Hayman, HarperCollins NZ, $40 Once the most highly prized player in world rugby, All Black Carl Hayman tells his story about the testosterone-fuelled, play-hard, drink-hard mentality, where playing with pain was not just accepted but expected. And how he’s now counting the hidden costs of his achievements. RE-FOOD Emily King, Mary Egan Publishing, $45 As a food systems expert and former environmental lawyer, Emily King knows better than anyone…

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What’s not to love. In a world that is running on hardship and bad news, I’m mindful of the negative exposure and its impact that can have. So to have positive, local, mindful and hopeful moments, stories, news, recipes, competitions which I always enter, I consider Good magazine part of my wellbeing. Create my happy space and read, learn, go ohhh and arrr… it’s personal, it’s sunshine from gloom. Articles that inspire, for someone who has a short attention span, you have got my attention. My something to enjoy. Stories that remind me that people are doing great things, innovation and wellbeing is in many hearts and minds, that’s what this magazine offers, a star amongst the clouds of pollution we are exposed to daily. Thank you. Wiki Ngawaka I…

“Most politicians across the spectrum have good intentions and want to make a positive difference.” Hayley Holt isn’t shy about declaring she’s happiest in nature. She likes its honesty, authenticity, wisdom, the smell of it, colours, how everything flows and fits together, as well as how it makes her feel. “I think it’s beautiful. I love being in the forest. It fills you with a natural energy,” Holt explains. Her love of nature, as well as her political opinions, are what led the Green Party to invite Holt to run for the Helensville electorate in 2017 (now Mahurangi ki Kaipara), a seat previously held by former prime minister John Key. Back then, her campaign announcement was largely gazumped by Key who announced on the same day that he was quitting…

Professor Sonja (Sofya) Lyubomirsky from the University of California has found that data shows we do all have our own ‘set point’ of happiness. This makes up half of our individual happiness pie (H-pie), with another 10 per cent apportioned to ‘circumstances’ – you know, like having a bad hair day, the dog ate my homework, etc. Our leftover piece of H-pie, a largish piece weighing in at 40 per cent, is fabulously within our sphere of influence – meaning that if we spend a bit of time fathoming what makes us chipper, we can influence our happiness. Stoked. So how to work that 40 per cent? Lyubomirsky recommends spending some time exploring what happiness-improving strategies work best with our personality. If we gently do this reflecting and get a…

There is a strong spirit of working creatively to make a life in the Byron region possible. Adult children build on their parents’ land, and friends work collaboratively to keep alive the dream of being able to live here. And so it was for Zana Wright, an architectural designer, and her partner, Sam Jolly, a carpenter, who live on Zana’s parents’ property in Skinners Shoot with their two-year-old daughter, Lumi. After growing up in the New England area of northern New South Wales, studying in Sydney, Berlin and Aarhus in Denmark, and coming and going for work, Zana settled in the Byron area in 2015. “My decision was mostly based around having family here at a time when I was in a transition, but also the wide range of amazing…

Welcome texture into your room by using leftover Resene Anaglypta wallpaper to accentuate furniture and décor items. Re-covering a lampshade and cabinet door in wallpaper are simple ways to add visual interest to your bedroom. Although you could use any Resene wallpaper for this project, the best part with Resene Anaglypta wallpaper is that it can be re-painted should you wish to change your colour scheme in the future! WHAT YOU’LL NEED: • Resene wallpaper offcut. I used Resene Wallpaper Collection Anaglypta RD567. • Resene testpots in the colours of your choice. I used Resene Half Escape, Resene Bismark, Resene Quarter Rice Cake and Resene Indian Ink. • Resene testpot brush • Ruler and pencil • Lamp to makeover • Scissors or craft knife • Double-sided tape • Bias binding…

A glass of wine usually conjures up a lowering of energy levels but with this issue of Good magazine focusing on the theme of energy, it’s timely to investigate how much of it goes into the production of a bottle of wine. There are many fixed costs, such as the standard 750ml bottle, the label, the cost of grapes that went into the production of the wine, the choice of closure (screwcaps are cheaper – and more reliable – than corks) and, of course, a magnum (1,500mls) or a half bottle both cost more than the standard 750ml bottle of wine. When the winemaking brothers Matt and James Dicey began their own Dicey Wines business three years ago, they decided to explore alternative packaging to the standard 750ml wine bottle.…

thechrysalislab.com For the past 25 years, Emma Trask, who originally hails from Waitārere Beach, Horowhenua, has been slaying it as a stylist in the US, working with A-list celebrities including Scarlett Johansson, Beyonce, Cameron Diaz, Kiera Knightly, Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Jared Leto and Carrie Underwood. Aside from making her clients look good, her mantra as a stylist is to create an individual look, and the same concept threads through her newest venture, The Chrysalis Lab in Malibu, Los Angeles. Trask’s upcycle atelier is a unique art studio-meets-retail space where she and her team transform vintage clothing into wearable art. The kind you want to wear. She also works with pieces from her clients’ wardrobes – things no longer worn, stained or torn – and upcycles them into something new,…

ACROSS 1 Frida, Mexican painter and a posthumous 14 for the Chicano Movement (5) 4 In physics, the capacity to do work – in drinks, ‘V’, ‘Red Bull’, ‘Monster’, etc! (6) 9 All kinds of things – “We saw ducks, geese, swans – __ ___ _!” (3,4,2) 10 Taut, rigid, stretched tight (or present, past, pluperfect, conditional, etc) (5) 11 Stir up, literally or figuratively (4) 12 A protagonist such as Zorro, Robin Hood, Xena, Indiana Jones, etc (6,4) 15 “Women who seek to be ___ with men lack ambition.” --Timothy Leary (5) 16 Supplies of (generally non-16 down) material or 4 (9) 17 Describes a biochemical process accompanied by a release of 4 (anagram of “generic ox”) (9) 18 A source of 4 – clean nuclear power, in a…