Take advantage of the daylight hours and make hay (or compost) while the sun shines.

Seeds saved from your best crops will look after you in seasons to come.

Auckland architect Michael O'Sullivan spent a year's worth of weekends building this stunning office overlooking Lyttelton Harbour.

Over the summer holidays we caught a sea shuttle from Kaiteriteri Beach and spent a week with my family at a holiday house in Awaroa Inlet in the Abel Tasman National Park.

Worm farms, compost heaps, beehives and vege gardens. Auckland businesses

Sophie Wylie and Liam Joyce's apartment, beside Auckland’s Southern Motorway, was inspired by the couple's time spent living in compact European abodes.

This Christmas we're catching the train to Kaikoura to spend a few days with my husband's family, who live up Mt Lyford, in a village of log houses surrounded by beech trees and mountain tarns.

The holidays are just around the corner and it is also peak growing time for summer crops.

No room, no problem; options include pots and mobile beds.