A nice idea from Dunedin’s The Print Room. To help businesses generate a bit of money during the Covid-19 lockdown.

Five ways to give Mother’s Day a very Central Otago flavour

For those wanting to have a go at bread making, here’s a recipe for a favourite that requires very little kneading.

Get it while you can! With exports to China on hold, New Zealand has a crayfish surplus and they’re readily available in Central Otago.

Sheds make for beautiful distraction on a website by Queenstown’s Ryan Cardno.

Jack’s Raw Bar is a delightful addition to the cellar door experience at The Shed at Cloudy Bay’s Northburn vineyard.

Apparently Reese Witherspoon developed a taste for it when she was here filming Wrinkle in Time in 2017 and we like her style. Wooing Tree Blondie is our top tipple when we require something light, crisp and cold in a glass.

Bearwood’s chamfer plant pot stand, hand crafted by Joe Wright in Wanaka, brings refined, mid-century elegance to the humblest of indoor plants. A good one for the Christmas shopping list. $75 from bearwood.co.nz

Chef Vaughan Mabee has wasted no time harvesting elderflowers daily for the Amisfield menu. Srigs of flowers are fried in a light batter and served with tiny dollops of house-made neufchatel cheese.