Salt, Spice and Synergy - Opito Bay Salt

Salt is one of our most important minerals, and right here on the Coromandel two innovative foodies are producing some of the worlds best sea salt

Healthy Living, WellnessCarl MuirFebruary 28, 2022Healthy Living, Recipes, RestaurantsComment

Staying healthy over the silly Season...

Wellness, Healthy LivingTia LoganDecember 27, 2021Healthy Living, Wellbeing, WellnessComment

Off the beaten Trail…

Healthy Living, Wellness, AdventuresTia LoganOctober 23, 2021Outdoors, AdventureComment

Get Growing this Summer

Healthy Living, WellnessTia LoganOctober 9, 2021Plants, GardeningComment

Staying Fit When It’s Flat

Healthy Living, WellnessTia LoganSeptember 25, 2021Healthy Living, WellnessComment

Growing Goodness Not Grass - A sneak peek inside The Summer Lane Project

Today, we’re getting a tour of “The Summer Lane Project” - a permaculture market garden, established last year in the backyard of Jayden Blomfield’s family house in Tairua. It is the middle of winter, but the place is abuzz with colour, and abundant with edible goodness.

DIY, Healthy Living, CommunityCarl MuirAugust 15, 2021Gardening, The Summer Lane ProjectComment

Purangi Plants - Coromandel Green Series

Healthy LivingCarl MuirJuly 25, 2021Gardening, PlantsComment

Rena - Beach clean

Community, Healthy LivingTia LoganJune 30, 2021Wellness, WellbeingComment

Self Care - The Coromandel Way

Wellness, Healthy LivingTia LoganJune 18, 2021Wellbeing, Wellness

Coromandel Winter Wellness Escape

The perfect blend of nature, adventure, luxury natural accommodation, banging food, spas and treatments, Carl and Tia road trip the Coromandel in search of the best winter wellness experiences on offer.

Back to the Origins of Food With Chef Graeme Riki

Tairua Beach Club has quickly made a name for itself with fresh flavours, homegrown produce and a great vibe. We talk to Chef Graeme Riki about what it takes to create a successful restaurant.

The Magical World of Donut Island

A journey into the magical world of Donut Island, Whangamata with SURFSUP New Zealand.

Adventures, Healthy LivingCarl MuirAugust 31, 2018Donut Island, Whangamata, Coro Must Do, Kayaking, Adventure, FamilyComment

Committed, Disciplined and Respectful: Talking rugby with the Gilbert brothers

Two Whangamata men are teaching the next generation important foundation values, through our national sport, Rugby.

20 Tools for Beating Depression

Mental health and depression are becoming a much more talked about subject. Coromandel Goodness founder, Carl Muir, shares his learnings from his own struggles with depression and some useful tips he hopes might help others one day.

Healthy LivingCarl MuirJuly 21, 2017Wellbeing, Wellness, Surfing, Inspiration, Family, FriendsComment

Entering the magical world of The Lost Spring

Today we launched a series of live videos talking to the people that make the Coromandel a special place to live, work and play.

Who better to talk to first than the visionary Alan Hopping from The Lost Spring.

Coromandel Good Sorts, Healthy LivingCarl MuirJuly 3, 2017Wellbeing, Wellness, Massage, Whitianga, Hot Pools, Visionaries, Live VideoComment

Peace in Pauanui…Talking about yoga with Elle Pier

“It felt like coming home,” was how Elle Pier described the first time she set sights on Pauanui mountain. A California native, she discovered yoga as a student at University of Santa Cruz and in 2005 completed her teacher training at the Nosara Yoga Institute in Costa Rica. It taught an interdisciplinary style, which she teaches in her new hometown, Pauanui Beach.

Healthy LivingCarl MuirAugust 29, 2016Pauanui, Yoga, Surfing, Massage, Wellbeing, WellnessComment

Honey running through her veins… A Beekeeper’s Daughter

Meet Ashlee Strange; the born and bred beekeeper’s daughter from Tairua, who is soothing the skin of many with her homemade honey scented skincare.

Healthy LivingCarl MuirAugust 21, 2016Healthy Living, Tairua, Sustainability, Emerging Business, WellnessComment

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