Spring

Nelson is a picture, positive mindsets are coming back in Hawkes Bay and there's a feeling that a genuine spring is around the corner. August's farming conditions around the country. Audio

It's not just spring, it's Labour Weekend, and that always means gardening and planting. Tune in for your spring gardening tips with two of the country's best. Audio

Professor of Geography Rewi Newnham is calling for better pollen monitoring to improve the lives of hay fever sufferers.  Audio

The farmer-owned meat Co-op, Alliance Group has taken on 40 staff members of an Oamaru meat company which was forced to suspend exports to China. Audio

Te Tuinga Whanau Trust's Tommy Kapai Wilson is celebrating Spring, which starts officially tomorrow. Audio

Weatherwatch analyst Phillip Duncan says people shouldn't read too much into reports of a rare stratospheric warming over Antarctica causing havoc with New Zealand weather over the coming days.  Audio

New research carried out by the University of Toronto has found that we don't think as well in Spring. Although the study was dementia research the seaonal glitsch applies to all of us. It also found… Audio

Unseasonably warm weather lately has confused some plants - and journalists.   Audio

Norwegian writer Karl Ove Knausgård came to the attention of the literary world with six autobiographical novels based on family life, collectively called My Struggle (Min Kamp). The series was the… Audio

Landscape designer and gardener Xanthe White with a warning of Spring fever - what you should and shouldn't do in the garden in the first month of spring. Audio