

The World's Largest Blueberry That Ate New Zealand
The world’s largest blueberry is about to hit New Zealand soil, literally. The Eterna variety, famed for its ping-pong-ball size and 20.4 gram world-record fruit, is being planted in Kerikeri and Waikato by The Fresh Berry Company in partnership with global powerhouse Driscoll’s.
20 hours ago1 min read


How New Zealand Is Rewiring Traditional Chinese Medicine
New Zealand is quietly rewriting the rules of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), a field that’s been brewing herbs the same way for 5,000 years. Enter Alpha Group, once a West Auckland garage project, now a global biotech heavyweight — whose patented low-temperature extraction tech is stripping active compounds from plants, fungi, and fruits without destroying their potency.
23 hours ago1 min read


Chinese TikTok Turns Chilean Cherries into Clicks
What’s really at play here is a shift in how fresh produce reaches Asia’s growing middle class: farm-to-feed-scroll. Chilean cherries have long relied on logistics and Lunar-New-Year gifting culture; now they’re adding algorithms. For the AG2, grown in Chile’s Colchagua Valley and rooted in 1950s Californian genetics, TikTok isn’t just an ad channel, it’s the market itself.
2 days ago1 min read