Ode to Port Emo
A used-to-be-bar that somehow still is, a small wooden stage, a mic on a stand, a moment alone.
GEORGIA MERTON
Writer of fact and fiction, currently based in Otautahi, Aotearoa
Eastwest Yoga Auckland
Eastwest Yoga is an inner-city sanctuary; a space to reconnect with breath, self and body. It was a pleasure to write their website copy.
How to dance on a liquid spaceship
How to dance on a liquid spaceship at the bottom of the world. Words and some pictures exploring Riverton's surf scene.
The tortoise and the bare
Sprinting starkers for charity in the shadow of the Darran Mountains.
Mickey Ross Wedding Photography
Mickey Ross is an extraordinary wedding photographer based in Wanaka. His photos are marvelous, but he needed some help with his words for his new website.
The gift of you
A book for kids and grown ups, written for special friends.
When the white gold's running
An exploration of the weird and wonderful world of whitebait
A cranking good time
Southern Lens Documentary Series - Wanaka's firefighting heroes
We spent time with Wanaka's volunteer firefighters to discover the reality of responding to that siren whenever they are needed.
Where the poets hide
The writing is on the wall for the tiny town of Oturehua.
The greatest roadshow
The Arts on Tour van brings laughter, birdsong and tasteful sex to rural New Zealand.
Edible Earth Journal: Why composting is so damn cool
The world is changing fast, and so many of the ‘normal’ things we do are being called into question. It’s time to rethink a lot of our systems, and one of those is waste.
Our waste streams have been designed for convenience, and they encourage us not to think twice before chucking stuff out. Even if this stuff was only in our lives for half an hour, it’s out of sight and whisked off before we can even consider the impact it’s had.
Edible Earth Journal: How good soil helps our climate
We talk a lot about carbon these days. Too much up there, not enough under our feet. And yes, it’s super important to draw carbon from the atmosphere (where there’s an excess) and fix it into the ground instead. It’s fantastic, actually.
But, there’s more to carbon than the value of simply taking it out of the atmosphere. The role it plays within the soil is what’s really important, for a few different reasons.
Edible Earth Journal: The world beneath our feet
Soil is the great enabler of life. An earthy substance that smells incredible and gets under your fingernails in the best way. Every gardener can attest to the mood-lifting qualities of putting their fingers in the dirt, and soil bacteria has actually been shown to stimulate the production of serotonin, one of our happy hormones.
Website content for Highden Park
Highden Park is a boutique thoroughbred nursery; a small farm with a big heart and exceptional results
Southern Lens Documentary Series - Repair Revolution
Wanaka Wastebusters stages a Repair Revolution.
Shot and edited by James Haskard, produced by Georgia Merton .
Southern Lens Documentary Series: We are perfect as we are
For this group of Wanaka families, the lack of support for their intellectually disabled kids nearly drove them out of town. Instead, they started Mint Charitable Trust to build their own support — and show the rest of the country how it can be done.
Southern Lens Documentary Series - Kea Conservation
The Southern Lens team spent time with Tamsin from the Kea Conservation Trust, who work tirelessly to support these cheeky, endangered mountain parrots, which, until the 1980's, had a bounty on their heads.
Southern Lens Documentary Series - The ultimate bike trail
There's bike trails - and then there's the new Lake Dunstan Trail being built between Clyde and Cromwell. The Southern Lens team spends time with the engineers literally blasting and bridging their way through the Cromwell Gorge.
Southern Lens Documentary Series - The art of taxidermy
“No pets, no people, no politicians. Those are the rules of engagement for fourth generation Arrowtown taxidermist David Jacobs. David talks with the Southern Lens team about the science and the art of how he makes a living, how the post Covid world is seeing a resurgence of cottage industries and the extraordinary, and touching, relationship David has both with his rural clients and the animals he brings back to life.
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