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Regenerative practices have been applied since the inception of Queenstown Community Gardens 13 years ago, where demand has continued to increase for plots as produce prices soar.

The quest to farm regeneratively and produce food on scale has become a labour of love for New Zealand celebrity chef and TV presenter Nadia Lim and husband Carlos Bagrie, who hails from a generation of Wakatipu farmers, working their 460ha Royalburn Station on the Crown Terrace.

Sometimes blokes just need to go down to the shed and potter, as do some girls. Arrowtown MenzShed now has 35 paid-up members, after just two years, and that’s growing, with affiliation to the New Zealand MenzShed Association. Members’ skills are in hot demand in the Wakatipu community and ages range from their 30s to 80s, with three women joining recently.

Curious is a new programme of talks and events in Queenstown instigated by Kelly Carmichael. Kelly is the director of Starkwhite in Earl Street and has built up a solid curatorial background working in the contemporary art world across Europe, the Middle East and the US before returning home to Aotearoa–New Zealand. She’s launching the first Curious event on 3 December at Starkwhite Queenstown.

The Central Otago Regional Choir will perform Magical Music from Mozart to Madden in Arrowtown, Wanaka and Alexandra at the start of December. The performance will showcase the choir performing a variety of music including several songs by the highly-regarded New Zealand composer Richard Madden QSM, who will also be conducting them.

Renowned locally as one of the Wakatipu’s most popular, fun-loving publicans, former Eichardt’s Tavern owner John Mann was destined for a life in entertainment.

A hugely successful Queenstown charity golf tournament, attracting some big names, raised about $35,000 for Whānau āwhina Plunket this month. The sought after, two-day 2022 Cello Invitational Pro-Am – one of the PGA of New Zealand’s premier pro-ams, teed off at Millbrook Resort, progressing to the Jack’s Point course on the second day. It provided the perfect opportunity for pro golfers to play the NZPGA circuit.

An apple grows on a tree in Cromwell with sunshine, water, good soil and some love. It gets picked and driven to a shop to be sold. A few days later a new shiney batch of apples arrives and our apple hasn’t been bought yet, so it’s taken off the shelf and put in the bin. That evening a family in Fernhill sits down to eat another dinner of 2-minute noodles, unable to afford fresh nutritious food. All while a perfectly good apple sits in the bin just down the road, ready to be buried in a landfill site.

“A marathon is always hard work but to be back in Queenstown racing again is awesome, it was amazing, it was pretty perfect conditions...

Should Queenstown’s tourism industry aim to be net Carbon Zero by 2030? Is it achievable? We ask industry leaders and a climate activist.

Queenstown’s tourism industry could set the radical goal of reaching ‘Carbon Zero by 2030’. That’s one of the proposals in the resort’s revised regenerative tourism strategy, which has been strengthened after feedback on the draft plan from the community and operators.

A Queenstown property developer has submitted revised plans for a major project at Waterfall Park, near Arrowtown.

You could say he’s somewhere between a Southern Man with a big heart and New Zealand’s own version of Bear Grylls, but KC Wilson is probably his own unique version of icon.

International award-winning British photographer Mandy Barker will bring her SHELF-LIFE exhibition to Te Atamira over December and January. The exhibition will highlight the impact of the global reliance on plastic and the damage it causes to marine life, and has been brought here in partnership with the British Council and the British High Commission.

She was the joyful, welcoming face of Skyline for 23 years, her bright hazel eyes and wide, beaming smile calming many a nervous tourist after they stepped off a hairy gondola ride.

It’s hoped the Wakatipu’s wonderfully diverse global community can be celebrated in the Frankton Library garden with the launch of the first World Languages Lilliput Libraries there early next year.