Posts by Hebe
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Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Russell Brown,
He's a-thinking. Unfortunately though another non-immediate thunk. I feel your pain.
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Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Farmer Green,
I wonder if you can recall how you came across these products...
I'm just pondering what Russell is proposing here, and it just throws up questions.
My assumption has always been that if you are pushing a product that most people neither want , nor need, then you advertise.
If you go the other way, and produce an item in response to a want or a perceived need , then people who are looking to fill that need will find the item, and if they are satisfied then they will tell others ;that's how we have always worked.Not to derail the thread Russell -- I shall come back later about yr piece (Greg has requested the rate cards)...
Farmer, I can't remember how I came across the yoghurt. My best guess is that somewhere back in the mists of time (say the early '90s) I bought it somewhere like Piko -- or very possibly at a supermarket when I sifted the chillers for a decent yoghurt and there was little natural or not-plastic product widely available. That answers the question I guess: not from advertising but from a need (fuelled by living in the UK where good yoghurt was everywhere; and not having the inclination to make it myself). Then the Bush Honey became available down here when my children were about two years old, so consumption in our house rocketed. Then the apple syrup, which I thought sounded yukky until one day the honey and plain sold out. I bought it grumpily and found a new favourite.
With the kids going to a Steiner school for over a decade until last year, many shared lunches, camps etc were had, and often the yoghurt came along with other people: so that shows me it is a product well-supported by that community -- possibly who know about the biodynamic link.
How fortunate finding those advisers for your farm at the right time. Looks like your time has come. I have an idea that I'm refining -- but need the land to do it, which is
the great hurdle now. Though I'm realising that leasing the right spot may be the answer. -
Hard News: Let's do some commerce, in reply to Farmer Green,
Is your website link your business? a) I buy your milk and bush honey yoghurt a lot. It's excellently yum. b) I never clicked before that it's biodynamic. Don't know why because I'm an assiduous label-reader. Where did you learn BD: Taruna? I'm aiming to do the course one year soon.
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What a rat's nest this stirs up. I can't see much helpful in any of this: the opinion pieces, the comments, the links. Each makes good points in their own way. But, having been close to people who died by their own hands, I perceive all the pieces -- and most of the comments -- to be reflective of the writers and their very alive viewpoints. Trying to make sense of what is essentially a disturbed act is pretty near impossible, and every suicide is different.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
And those aurora are waiting for you :-)
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Hard News: The Mayor's marginal enemies, in reply to Russell Brown,
Understandably, I think, I'm becoming weary of these apparent non-stories.
Beat-ups.
Good gawd to the Herald's lead. To the rest of New Zealand it's a WTF issue.
A right-leaning editorial team wouldn't be distracting from the real issues in an election year when there was an inconvenient doco on prime-time TV last night would they?
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Philip Burdon hands out an elegantly-worded beating to just about everyone in power down here:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/perspective/9732947/Doughnut-represents-Ceras-failings -
Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Ditto: I'm hoping that there's some wise minds on the job and that it will all make sense eventually. Anyhoo, I'm leaving them all to it and staying with the small-scale personal reconstruct.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Rob Stowell,
Did you see Aftermath on Prime last night? Some man from CCDU said they basically locked the doors on a group of planners and designers for three months so they could come up with the plan. It shows: silo upon silo, with no way in for anyone else.
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Capture: Two Tales of a City, in reply to Lilith __,
Agree. I can do without the CBD now, and I see no reason why I will be lured back in to spend much time there apart from the Arts Centre end and the rare trip to a specific shop.
Not to mention the infrastructure (sewer, water, stormwater pipes; power and telecoms lines) now being estimated as being far worse than budgeted for. Anecdotal from several friends who work in that line have all told the same story: that when the crews do the digging the damage is much more than expected. So repairs will cost lots more.
I’m moving to Dunedin. I hope to be able to think of other things.
Best wishes for the change. I completely understand your thinking: the layers of complication and change are wearying and seem like they will never end. Dunedin is a neat place, and I'm sure you'll find it much easier to find a cosy and creative burrow. (And never hear the word "resilience" again.)