The life of a lemon sucks by Annette Ah Chee. From the beginning (an optimistic seed) to the end (juice). The skew of the glass symbolises the delicate balance
in nature. Te kaakano poorangi - The crazy impatient seed.

Seed: The expression of joy by beings that 'crystallize' nectar and pollen by Gianni Prencipe.
Bucket full of floriferous orchard understory seeds. Saving seed is having and sharing hope.

  

Weather Report (Photo 1983 Matakana Island Bay of Plenty) by Piet Nieuwland.

The wheel turns
From a whispering silky sea / weightless turquoise sky
To ribbons of air unwinding skeins of letters
Of a leaden sky / grey metallic green ocean
Torn surf flecked with stretched foams and pale blues
Bream Bay coastal current vectors twist and roll
On this periphery of ragged headlands and islands
The horizon not a line but a zone of incrementally
Rising undulations driven in from Antarctic ice shelf melt
Arctic melt, glacier melt, permafrost melt, thermal expansion
Mesmerizing in their fresh salt laden intrigues
That leaves on the high tide flotsam / jetlag line
A pig (sow), bloated, fly-blown on a spit (sand)
Bunch of bananas (lady finger) edible
Plastic star jump toy (green)
Fragments of childhood memories (happy) and distressed
The swells find they have no-where else to go
Fall into a jumble of meter and structure
Theories of cultural greed, life / art
As object / dream / practice / process
Also described as sea level rise crisis panic

Poem published in Given Words, National Poetry Day 2020

Homegrown bananas, Whatawhata, 2024 by Roland Stenger. The photo shows some of our first homegrown
bananas, encouraged by tasting NZ-grown bananas for the first time at a fruit stall in Rawene (= 'seed') five years earlier.

Silver Fern (ponga), in our urban ngahere kei Kawakawa, Te Tai Tokerau Sonja van Kerkhoff, 2024
Ferns are an ancient plant family over 300 million years old. They reproduce through their spores.
Fern spores grow on the underside of the leaves. Silver fern ‘seeds’ (spores)

He Whakatū Raihi – Rice Grown in Nelson,
March 2024 photos by Yuki Fukuda (Japanese rice (variety: Yukihikari)

This is the first successful rice growing trial in Nelson (as far as we know).
We created a 2x2 m experimental plot to grow a Japanese rice variety, Yukihikari (snow light),
which was kindly provided by Yoshimasa Sakurai who had grown rice in Kaiwaka since the 1990s.
Rice is an Asian taonga - hundreds of products can be created from both straw and rice,
including housing, clothing and food. Despite the average annual rice consumption per capita increasing to 17kg,
our country relies 100% on the imported rice.
Large-scale rice production in Aotearoa is a crucial step towards adapting to climate change, improving food security
and celebrating our cultural diversity.