Sunday June 28: No crime, no graffiti, no vandalism

Published: 3:49PM Thursday June 25, 2009

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Little big town
No crime, no graffiti, no vandalism. That's because every kid in Otorohanga either has a job or is learning how to do a job. So how did the King Country town become the model for employment in the depths of a recession? And why won't the Government that promoted the Job Summit back the small town job scheme that's been so successful?

Meat and three
Growing your own, cooking your own and eating your own. Vegetable gardens are recession proof and they are booming. But there's something else happening around the garden plots as well - whole NZ communities are transforming themselves through the power of gardening. And the kids are even doing better at school.

What are we eating?
Food Inc. is the provocative new US documentary that angers and scares with its dark picture of what western countries eat - cheap, fast food that comes at the expense of quality.

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