Story: Unpaid domestic work

Going back to the garden

New Zealanders put in vegetable gardens in the 2000s, not only to save money but as a way of getting healthy food without added chemicals. This news clip reports that sales of seeds and vegetable plants shot up in 2008.

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Matt Morris, 'Unpaid domestic work - Gardens, orchards and poultry', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/video/23337/going-back-to-the-garden (accessed 29 March 2024)

Story by Matt Morris, published 11 Mar 2010