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Things always seem to pick up pace this time of year. It’s back to school; back into routine; and back into our usual habits. As the kids head back to school, it’s a good time [...]

Robert Glensor and his team at Paraoa Bakery in Paraparaumu produce more than 5000 loaves of unique GE-free Purebread each week, delivering to satisfied customers all over New Zealand. Purebread is a label found in [...]

Paraoa Bakehouse has for five years been turning out Purebread organic loaves from its Paraparaumu base. From 300 loaves a week to a few Wellington shops in 1996, Paraoa now sends out loaves in seven [...]

Is that green as in ‘green around the gills,’ feeling ill, sick? or green as in immature, naïve? perhaps green with envy or jealousy? or even, gone green, mouldy or rotten? The wonders of the [...]

On the Importance of Using Fresh and Wholesome Grains and Bread… Grains have been grown and consumed by humans for thousands of years and are a staple food for most cultures around the globe. Asian [...]

Being active is so important no matter what your age or stage is. It’s about staying fit for your life but also about following your heart and staying receptive to ideas and opportunities. It’s not [...]

Organic Food We may look at all the fat, salt and sugar content on the labels of the processed food we buy, but what about the goodness content – the health-giving vitamins and minerals? It [...]

Give ’em a full choice! In 1954 the Supreme Court in the United States made a landmark ruling against segregation.It said that ‘separate but equal was not equal, and that the ramifications of separateness adversely [...]

Bread, the busy parents’ saviour: a slick of vegemite, a dip of yolky egg, a spread of homemade jam and your small ones are ready for the day. I’ll bet some industrious mammas and pappas [...]

We use organic free range eggs in our ever popular Corn & Seed gluten free bread. Scientific evidence continues to show that eggs produced from hens roaming free on green pastures have higher levels of [...]

At some stage as we travel on the roads of New Zealand, we’re likely to find ourselves surrounded by rolling hills covered in lush jade grass, where cows and sheep amble nonchalantly about. And as [...]

An International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood (ISAAC) found that Allergies have increased by 50% in the last 10 years and food is strongly associated with the problem. What is the reason for [...]

People often say that they don’t buy organic food and produce because it’s too expensive. And it is true that organic food can be more expensive. A friend recently told me about hearing Percy Tipene [...]

Given the fact that at last test, the NZ Total Diet Survey revealed 23 pesticides in 87% of samples of common wheat products. And that is not even the worst of it in terms of [...]

If you are still reeling from the news of the latest round of approvals for “Agent Orange” corn and soy, please sit down.  More hopped up toxic combinations are on the way.  Monsanto has a [...]

Serious illness or injury are said to be the main causes of brain damage. It is hard to comprehend that your daily bread consumption could also be a contributing cause. Bread and flour products are [...]

“There is nothing you cannot achieve if you have the passion and want for it” Quotes Northlander Brooke Roberts. Brooke Roberts is our sponsored athlete who follows mainly a Gluten Free diet to help her [...]

For many of us, starting a family is one of life’s precious milestones. The removal of this ability through infertility can be distressing and life changing. Infertility has been said to link to contact with [...]

In 2010, an estimated 2005 women were diagnosed with breast cancer according to the New Zealand Cancer registry. (Ministry of Health) An alarming number of kiwi women. Amongst several other causes pesticides have been linked [...]

Welcome. I created this report to help business owners who want to start the journey towards  sustainability or those already on it who are looking for inspiration and guidance. My approach was  simple – ask [...]

This has not been a good week for glyphosate , the active ingredient in Roundup and other herbicides. On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that it had classified glyphosate, the United States’ most [...]

Rocking it for Vanuatu In an act of social giving, Kapiti-based Purebread have generously sponsored the Vanuatu Music Revival Project Fundraising Concert. The Vanuatu Music Revival Project is a grass-roots aid mission working to bring [...]

Kapiti Coast’s Paraoa Bakehouse is tonight celebrating after being awarded the top honour in the Sustainable Business Network’s Central Regional Awards. Producers of organically certified bread products, Paraoa Bakehouse not only took out the Trailblazer [...]

Paraoa Bakehouse is tonight celebrating after being awarded New Zealand’s  Sustainable Business of the Year award at the 2008 NZI National Sustainable Business  Network Awards. The awards, held at Auckland’s War Memorial Museum, recognise those [...]

I am half-way with my trip in the States. It has been a great experience filled with a few ups and downs. I had a good two first weeks of results, but my third week [...]

The fact that we have more Greenpeace supporters (per capita) in Aotearoa than any other nation tells us how much many of us value this unique land we inhabit and desire to sustain it’s biodiversity. [...]

The validity of our ‘clean, green image’ is still in debate, yet our National Tourism Board continues to promote us along those lines (‘Pure NZ’) and the success of the campaign can be taken as [...]

Oct 15 – In spite of an outpouring of public concern including a strongly worded letter signed by 50 members of Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency gave final approval to Dow Agrosciences’ new Enlist Duo [...]

In your March 24 edition you carried a photo of a motorcyclist who had obviously ignored the “no motorcycles” signage posted at the Otaihanga Domain and was caught by a cameraman riding down the walkway [...]

By Trish Watson. I found out I was gluten intolerant about four years ago and at the time it felt like the end of the world. There was a small corner at my local supermarket, [...]

Recent research showssignificant links between physical, cognitive, behavioral and emotionalillnesses and environmental toxins. A positive way of looking atenvironmental causes of these disorders is that they are preventableand in many cases treatable through reducing our [...]

This table below ranks food according to percentage with PESTICIDES detected and the number of them found in our food! By eliminating foods from your diet that contain the highest amount of pesticides can greatly [...]

Central Region 2008 Finalist Fact Sheet Business : Paraoa Bakehouse Ltd., www.purebread.co.nz Director : Robert W Glensor, Managing Director In business : 12 years, Paraparaumu (Kapiti) Focus : Production of Organic, and Gluten-Free, and Wheat-free [...]

Sustainability might be sexy these days, but for New Zealand’s most sustainable business, it’s all about caring for the land. Paraoa Bakehouse, awarded the top prize at this year’s Sustainable Business Network’s awards, has focused [...]

Kapiti Coast-based specialist bakers, Pararoa Bakehouse, makers of Purebread, have been named as central region finalists in the third Sustainable Business Network Regional Awards. This is a major achievement for the twelve-year old business, which [...]

Wheat Gluten Over the years, we have had muchfeed back in the form of ‘I have been told I have a wheat or glutenallergy but I can eat your wheat breads. From this as well [...]