Hortsource Blog

• September 30, 2020

  My New Book – Fair & Sustainable Produce Prices

  I am sitting here at my keyboard, just like last year, and the year before, writing a blog entry. It is spring in New Zealand. The evergreen Azaleas are coming to the end of their flowering cycle, the first columbines Read More

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• September 12, 2020

  Apples Need To Be Picked To Earn Export Dollars

  It is not easy being Minister of Immigration. Particularly in Covid times. New Zealand is a very attractive destination for people from around the world at the best of times; for tourists, as well as people intent to build a Read More

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• September 2, 2020

  North Korea – The Next Global Banana Merchant?

  Global warming is causing all sorts of rethinks. The English county of Kent these days has a burgeoning wine industry. There wasn’t a wine maker in sight in my days in London in the seventies. Wine culture at the time Read More

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• August 31, 2020

  The New Normal is Different Today

  The photo on this page was taken a year after the big Christchurch earthquake. It represented an inner Christchurch suburb community attempt to cope with the ‘new normal’ the city had been presented with by these devastating earthquakes. Once collapsed Read More

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