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Wally Richards Fruit for you
Win a "Being There" magnetic farm scene from Whirlwind Designs
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Landscape Design Workshops
Video:: The Great North & South Landscape build-Off
Baulustrading Concepts
Digger Dan's Monthly garden Tips
Ellerslie highlights slideshow
Mining national parks?
Recipe
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Fruit for you

Home grown fruit, grown naturally (without chemicals) with all the minerals and elements added to the growing medium, have very high nutritional values plus health giving properties. Read More >>
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Welcome to Groundwork. Tim Durrant

Firstly congratulations to the North Island team who won the Great North & South Landscape Build-Off at the Ellerslie Flowershow.

Congratulations to us for being a Top 10 website for Lifestyle in New Zealand  - Hitwise don't have a landscaping, gardening or nursery section so we pile in with all the others and we are always chuffed to improve our position in the market.

It is very clear that landscaping, gardening, chooks and growing our own fruit and vegetables  is having a huge renaissance in New Zealand. Why we ever stopped producing our own food is beyond me - perhaps it is the co called convenience of supermarkets, fast food or all those color television sets Selwyn used to give away on "It's in the bag". Anyway, it's worth celebrating that more and more people are turning to their gardens for sustenance, relaxation and the good life! 




Landscape Design Workshops
Design your own garden with Robin Shafer



Seminar style workshops in which you work step-by-step with Robin Shafer completing your own garden design using a fun and affordable hands-on method. (Auckland)

View the Landscaping New Zealand build Competition at The Ellerslie Flower Show earlier this month.

The Great North & South Landscape build-off
Balustrading Concepts are the leader in the design, construction and implementation of aluminium and glass railing systems in the Auckland area. If you are looking for an exeptional supplier of gate and balustrade systems remember them and bookmark their portfolio.

Balustrading Concepts

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Balustrading Concepts
Digger Dan's Monthly Garden Tips 

Digger Dan Montly Garden Tips

Read the latest Digger Dan gardening tips article for infomration about the veggie garden, the rest of the garden and lawn care for March. View article here >>
Ellerslie International Flower Show Highlights

Ellerslie flower Show Highlights

To view a brief slide show of Ellerslie International Flower Show highlights click here


Mining National Parks ?

We have publsihed several articles about this issue. Where do you stand? Are we informed enought about the effects of this type of mining?

Are you completely against it or do you think it is a good thing?

Check out the articles and add your feedback

Tags: Opinion & Debate , Mining
Editors Picks

General and unrelated funny things, oddities and interest

 




A foodlovers recipe








Rhubarb Sour Cream Cake by Helen Jackson


rhubarb sour cream cake

Ingredients

160g butter
350g brown sugar
2 eggs
500g rhubarb, sliced into 2cm pieces
finely grated rind of 1/2 orange
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
300g flour
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon cinnamon
250ml sour cream
brown sugar and cinnamon for top

Method

Preheat
oven to 180 C Beat butter and brown sugar until creamy. Add eggs one at
a time beating well after each addition. Stir vanilla then the sifted flour, baking soda, salt and cinnamon. Gently
fold in sour cream. Pour half the batter into a greased and lined 22cm round cake tin and then top with rhubarb and orange rind. Cover with remaining batter.
Sprinkle mixed brown sugar and cinnamon over the top. Bake for 50-60minutes.


A foodlovers.co.nz recipe 
That is all for this month!

Kind regards,
 


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