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Housing still encroaches on best fruit and veg-growing land In New Zealand, The best areas for growing fruit and vegetables are still being gobbled up by housing and lifestyle blocks. According to the Our Land report from Statistics NZ and the Ministry for the Environment, the area of highly productive land that is unavailable for growing food because it’s covered by housing increased by 54 percent between 2002 and 2019. As of 2019, the area of prime soil for growing potatoes, onions, leafy vegetables and other produce that was buried under housing totalled more than 107, 000 hectares. And while that doesn’t seem excessive in the scheme of New Zealand’s total 26.8 mln ha land area, the best food-growing soil comprises just 15 per cent of the country. ....
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Bay Conservation Cadets – Tauira Mahi programme video “Now I’m excited to go to work, and I feel like I’m actually making a difference in the world,” Bay Conservation Cadet, Nathan Wakely A $3.5 million grant from the Jobs for Nature programme is training a new group of environmental guardians in the Bay of Plenty, says Secretary for the Environment Vicky Robertson. The Bay Conservation Cadets – Tauira Mahi is an employment, training and development programme which upskills people who are unemployed, under-employed or those changing career pathways, in environmental management and restoration. Bay Conservation Alliance received $3.5 million through Ministry for the Environment’s Jobs for Nature funding, to deliver the Bay Conservation Cadets programme. ....