Cooking corner.
Tomatoes, potato and salmon salad.
Ingredients
500gr small potatoes
300gr small green beans
½ cup peas
500gr tomatoes
1 small head of lettuce … Continue Reading
To download ‘The Martinborough Star’ April 2020 edition please download the link below. Star_April_2020_v2
This year the Martinborough Fair celebrated its 44th consecutive year! The Fair has evolved from a modest 35 stalls and produce trucks to over 500 stalls from around New Zealand selling a wide range of quality items and attended by over 40,000 people over the two days. Food was popular …
New Zealand’s first – and still surviving – amateur observatory, built by Featherston sheep farmer Stephen Carkeek in 1867, may be granted Category 1 Heritage status within the region’s proposed Dark Sky Reserve, according to Heritage NZ. A 45-page report recommending the South Wairarapa’s Carkeek Observatory’s entry onto the New …
By day Kate Throp’s in charge of Margrain’s tasting room but she’s also great lover of shoes. Perhaps that’s why a TV1 story about Lazy Sneakers first caught her eye. Lazy Sneakers was started in Wellington by 12 year old Maia Mariner who realised that not everyone at her …
Tomatoes, potato and salmon salad.
Ingredients
500gr small potatoes
300gr small green beans
½ cup peas
500gr tomatoes
1 small head of lettuce … Continue Reading
Kia ora tatou, and another scorching month has gone by!
It was great to see that the free swimming in the local pools has proven very popular in all 3 towns once again, with the Martinborough pool shades looking great and providing much needed shade.
February saw our first full Council meeting for 2020, with water being a large part of the conversation. Drinking water and wastewater continue to be huge issues, not just for the South Wairarapa, but for every Council around New Zealand. … Continue Reading
THE PEA BAN IS LIFTED, freshly picked garden peas will be back on the menu!
BACK IN AUGUST 2018 the Auckland cycle and pedestrian bridge known as SkyPath was costed at $67 million for the three km cycleway. In January 2020 the estimated cost was $360 million. An increase of 440% in 18 months? A cycleway (even one over a harbour) cost $120 million per km?
THE ELECTION DATE, September 19th, is also the anniversary of the first hot air balloon flight. The French Montigolifier brother’s wool and damp straw fueled balloon rose carrying a rooster, duck and lamb as passengers.
‘THE GREATEST threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will fix it’
– explorer Robert Swan
NZ STATISTICS population records clock a birth every nine minutes, a death every fourteen minutes and a net migration gain every twelve minutes. … Continue Reading
Haven’t we all been there?
We know exercise is good for us – the trouble is, it means stopping what you are doing, getting out of that comfy chair and putting one foot in front of the other!
And we all know of some fitness freak who died at a frighteningly early age. Look where exercise got him! … Continue Reading
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