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Mastering Winter Gardening: A Guide to Growing Bountiful Winter Crops Embrace the Season and Harvest Fresh Produce all Winter Long Winter doesn't have to mean bidding farewell to your garden. In fact, it's the perfect time to cultivate a vibrant array of winter crops that thrive in the cooler temperatures.  www.coromind.nz

Forgiveness had always been role-modelled to me by my amazing nana (Aunty Ada) and her uncompromising Christian beliefs that she lived out in her everyday life. She always said that we should forgive and love others. She was known for helping and loving others no matter their backgrounds or indiscretions. As a child, I didn’t understand the idea of this or the impact her teachings would have later...

 I'd describe my art as a fusion of mediums, combined in sporadic colour explosion, done in an unorthodox fashion! After suffering a traumatic brain injury from a work accident, I now use art as part of my recovery, understanding and accepting my limits. A big supporter of Reduce-Reuse-Recycle-Repurpose, you'll find... www.coromind.nz

Coromind Editorial - Issue 6, 2023 www.coromind.nz

The importance of embracing diversity and celebrating multiculturalism cannot be overstated in a world that is becoming increasingly interconnected. Through these encounters with different cultures... www.coromind.nz

Coromind Magazine Issue 5 Full Audio version www.coromind.nz

Coromandel’s Real Estate Experts As a real estate agent in the beautiful Coromandel peninsula, I'm excited to share my insights on buying a house.  For first-home buyers, this process can seem daunting, but with the right information and guidance, it can be an exciting and fulfilling experience... www.coromind.nz

From the words of my Architecture river tour guide, ‘Architecture creates beauty, and beauty creates and shapes culture’. I have never claimed to be knowledgeable when it comes to architecture; however, after learning about the different types amongst some of the tallest buildings in Chicago alone, I couldn't agree more with what he said. Things like Urban and City Design and how they are cri...

Common Ground is a space dedicated to expression. www.coromind.nz

Finding Balance by Reuben Watson Be still. Stillness reveals the secrets of eternity. – Lao Tzu From the second I saw someone rock balancing on YouTube, I was hooked, like a shot of caffeine to the soul. It consumed every spare moment I had for the first couple of years. Exploring this art form has been a hobby that I’ve returned to time and time again over the past five years.  www.coromind.nz

Lara Gay I was born in Annecy in the French Alps in 1999, and I've always loved to draw, paint, and craft in general, for as long as I can remember. Since childhood, I've been deeply influenced by surrealist artists as both my parents had a big interest in them. As a kid, I remember going to Salvador Dali's museum in Figueres and having my mind blown by his work. I experimented with...

Kia ora Welcome to the 5th issue of Coromind, a magazine that thrives on collaboration and community involvement. At Coromind, we believe in the power of individuals to make a significant impact in shaping our society and the world. Too often, we hear people say, "I can’t do much about it; whatever I do won't change anything in the world". This simply isn't true. Each one of us...

What is Acclimatisation? It is the adaptation of animals or plants to an environment or climate they are not normally found in. Aotearoa New Zealand’s first acclimatisers were the Polynesian voyagers that arrived here around 1250-1300 AD. They brought with them kiore (pacific rats), kūmara, kurī (dogs), taro and paper mulberry. The taro and paper mulberry did not grow well in this climate, but the...

Whether you are 8 or 80, it’s never too late to start astronomy and learn our place in the universe. Did you know you can see our own galaxy with your unaided eyes? Craters of the moon with binoculars? Countless wonders await you any clear night. When attempting to view the night sky, location is key but fortunately in the Coromandel Peninsula we are spoilt for choice for areas free from light pol...

As far back as the Roman slave revolts led by Spartacus, to the mediaeval peasant rebellions wanting protection from their kings, to the factory workers uniting in the Industrial Revolution to stop child labour and gain a 10-hour work day, to the union organisers of last century getting a 2-day weekend, the story of the worker has been one of trying to improve their workplace conditions and attain...

 I was one of the founders of the Mercury Bay Rugby Club during my first year of teaching at the old primary school. I was a player and coach and mentor for schoolboy rugby throughout the Bay.... www.coromind.nz

My most memorable strange experience occurred in my early thirties. I had been attending parapsychology classes over the previous months, where we learned about auras, spirits and  lots of other esoteric things. One of them was called ‘transfiguration’, when a person or thing changes its shape or form. I was visiting a friend in Whangamatā... www.coromind.nz

Hi! My name is Finn Molloy and I’m 12 years old. I live in Auckland but spend lots of time at my family beach house in Matarangi. I have been kitesurfing for around 2 years now. My current highest jump is 7.5 metres and I performed this at Matarangi. My favourite trick is called the... www.coromind.nz

Where do the Earth's and our human needs intersect? Living sustainably on Earth as humans is an idea that seems to have been somewhat greenwashed lately. While there are excellent initiatives out there addressing several issues that humankind has created on Earth, we need a more hands-on approach not only to deal with them but to live with them in the foreseeable future. www.coromind.nz

 Key principles for a happier more positive life Did you know that your thoughts influence your fate, day by day? Albert Einstein once said: “A single thought is the smallest entity of energy.” Up to 60% of our body is water. The water content in our brain and muscles is even as much as 75%! So, a thought is like the tiniest movement on a bucket of water and the whole content of the bucket gets mo...

Listening is something we all do, all the time, wherever we are. At home we listen to our partners, our families, our friends. At work, we listen to our staff, our colleagues, our bosses. But how well do we listen to them? How well do we really hear what they're trying to tell us? Most listening specialists (and many of the people we listen to) would say "Not too well!"... www.corom...

A chance encounter with a couple of cyclists at a Kaiaua cafe set in motion a plan to ride the length of the country. The idea took on a sense of romance and I was hooked. It is a long ride, over 3000 km across two land masses on tracks, trails, roads, both busy and quiet, and wilderness areas. I questioned myself – besides the romance and physical challenge of it, why this journey and why now?......

Celebrating a Milestone With Style! ALTBAYS Show The ALTBAYS Show hit a milestone of 180 episodes, and they celebrated in style. The host, Leo Magri, welcomed three incredibly talented Kiwi artists to the studio for a chat and some music. Roimata Taimana, visual artist and musician, Fabian Roberts, multi-instrumentalist, CFM broadcaster and Altbays Show co-host, and Stewart Pedley, singer-songwrit...

The speed of evolution of ChatGPT and similar systems is astounding. ChatGPT was already known to be able to generate functioning software at lightning speed. I tried it myself by asking it to write me a statistics function in the R statistics package, which saved me perhaps a couple of hours of work. ChatGPT has now been given the ability to read and improve its own code.... www.coromind.nz

Movies have been a major part of our lives for over a century. They have the power to take us on an emotional rollercoaster, transport us to other worlds and help us understand different perspectives and points of view. Movies have always been considered one of the most effective mediums of storytelling. As cinemas are often a focal point for the community, they and the movies they show have becom...