We Belong Outdoors

10x Impact and a Response to Black Friday

This year I started hearing about preparing for Black Friday from July. If you as a consumer think it's crazy, it's kinda worse as an online shop. It really challenged me this year. The emojis pepp...

Gifting Made Good

Every November enquiry ramps up for businesses who want to organise summer gifts for staff and clients , sports groups, school groups and so many other kinds of community and family events. And we ...

Calendula- the FIRST Blog Post

Below is the first post ever done for our business- unedited except for old broken links. It was published in August 2009 and included giving away Calendula seeds packets. That was the start of the...

All Weather Inspiration Howie Mcfadyen

This winter Howie is working at Remarkables Ski Patrol in Queenstown and using days off to do winter missions in the area. 

Skincare on a Tramping Trip

If you're going to carry skin care up and over a mountain, it needs to be light, portable, effective and needed! Becky shows you what they took on the Routeburn Track last month.

Not in the Brochure

This last few months I've gotten reacquainted with tramping in New Zealand. I basically dipped out of the hiking missions for something over twenty years, and my daughter's enthusiasm has brought m...

All Kinds of Entrepreneurs

She didn’t mean to start a bug repellent company.  Snapshot of an entrepreneur 25 years ago, January 1999, Kawarau River, Queenstown. Smile for the camera for the delight and adventure of life on t...

Gen B

Here's the Press Release Version: March is #bcorpmonth and the theme of the month is Gen B. We are all part of a generation of people using business to make a better tomorrow.   We’re proud to be ...

Hundred Ways to Feel Old (a Thousand Ways to Feel Young)

Last week in our send out I mentioned that I'd been on the Lake Waikaremoana Great Walk with my daughter, and that I'd been given a lot to share.   I'm writing to a wide range of relationships, fro...

Twenty Five Years

In our business, you know me and see my face regularly. John prefers to be behind the scenes. He does all of our product compliance work and looks after about 300 wholesale customers.  Most of them...