Mieke Couling

Gathering water is a top priority if trapped in the New Zealand bush, but dining on native edible plants can provide additional energy and sustenance to survive. Mieke Couling featured in life and leisure Magazine You’d be a bit silly to enter the bush unprepared to face unfortunate circumstances, but if you ever do find yourself having to survive in the wild, it will only aid your situation if you have some basic knowledge about edible wild plants. While surviving on native edible plants in...

There are plenty of edible wild plant foods in the NZ countryside, if you know where to look and what to look for. Mieke Couling featured in life and leisure Magazine Words: Mieke Couling https://ourwayoflife.co.nz/beginners-guide-foraging-new-zealand/ There are so many reasons to add wild foods to your diet, ranging from gaining survival knowledge to increasing your health and well-being, it seems a shame that information about it is so hard to attain. Our ancestors had excellent and...

This little pig cant go to the market Featured in Lifestyle block Nz Words by Mieke and Simon Couling 6 min read Converting pigs to pork needs to be as thoughtful and humane as possible. And converting pork to profit needs to be practical and economic. Pigs are a wonderful addition to the self-sufficiently-orientated lifestyle block. They contribute to the recycling of leftover food products (from the orchard, vegetable garden, kitchen or dairy shed), they provide compost, will plough up...