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Art by Laura Layton
Laura Layton is a 24-year-old artist from Tahekeroa a rural area north of Auckland. She finds herself lucky to be surrounded by native bush and New Zealand’s beautiful birds which inspired her first drawings with coloured pencils and pen. She has always enjoyed playing with various mediums and types, but now acrylic paint is a firm favourite.
Laura enjoys painting intricate and informative birds and animals, adding often a touch of whimsical or a small scene to construct a story within her painting within her paintings.
Dirty Hippie
Dawn started making natural personal hygiene products a decade ago when she had trouble finding natural products (at a price she could afford), that were actually natural and worked.
New to motherhood, she was shocked and appalled when she learnt about aluminium in shop-bought deodorant and that it could be passed onto breastfed babies. Her journey progressed and she started making deodorant for her family and friends, first in her kitchen, then their caravan and then a high cabin where she still makes the products today.
Dirty Hippie grew through word of mouth to become the successful small business it is today. Dawn’s objective remains to provide all-natural products that you will love to use, as organic as possible and as affordable as possible.
Dirty Hippie is also passionate about environmentally-friendly packaging, with measures in place to minimise their impact on the environment:
Little Farmer
Melanie is the mother of two youngsters. Her small home business is Little Farmer, a child subscription box for the seasonal gardening and nature activities. Melanie believes that having children with a great link to nature is very important, and she wants to make it as simple as possible to help parents teach and learn with them.
The boxes take the trouble out of knowing when to plant and provide easy instructions on how to sow your seeds and take care of each plant type. Small Farmer’s boxes do great gifts too! They sell one-time packs, monthly subscriptions, or prepaid subscriptions for 3, 6, or 12 months.
Eat Crawlers
Did you know there are now 2111 species of insects considered as Edible?
By eating crickets, locusts and grasshoppers you can help you maintain your protein and B1 levels. With the farming of animal products responsible for 26% of our water foot-print and 18% of greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide, and the world population estimated to be around 9.5 billion by 2050, it’s crucial that we find more effective and sustainable methods of farming natural protein.
All of Eat Crawlers’s insects are raised for human consumption and are sourced from sustainable, ethical and reputable farms throughout Asia and are prepared with care, here in New Zealand.
‘Eat Crawlers’ Cricket Flour is definitely the gateway bug with up to 68.8% protein per 100g, its a great start to introducing more Sustainable Protein into your diet and is definitely Paleo friendly!
Read more about why you should eat insects.
Swings and Ladders
Handcrafted and made with love in sunny Hawke’s Bay, the lovely couple behind Swings and Ladders create wooden swings & rope ladders for kids, and beautifully crafted Macrocarpa swing-seats for adults.
Types of items include:
You are never too old to enjoy a swing!
The Wolf Pack Company
The Wolf Pack company started out years ago as an idea when the designer Nikki, was on the hunt for a maternity bra that would not only suit her evolving body but also looked fantastic and felt great. Nikki knew what she wanted in her mind but nothing ticked her wish list on the market. This is where the journey started to make the perfect maternity bra.
Supporting the changing body, these Maternity Bras can be lived in through every stage of pregnancy, labour, breastfeeding and beyond, looking and feeling great.