A Feijoa Fixation with Kate Evans

Kate Evans talks us through the journey of the humble feijoa, from the highlands of Brazil, to the valleys of Uruguay, a museum in Germany and the Riviera in France, to New Zealand. Along the way we meet the dashing and sometimes tragic characters who played a part in its translocation and share Evans’ obsession with the fruit. Maybe she’ll convert some South Islanders with her spirited take on these little green globes?

Kate Evans is an award-winning journalist and nature writer from New Zealand. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Observer, Scientific American, National Geographic, Undark, and BioGraphic. She is a regular contributor to New Zealand Geographic magazine and has won multiple national media awards for science and environmental journalism and feature writing. She has also worked as a television producer and video journalist for the BBC, ABC, TVNZ, and the Washington Post, reporting from West Africa, Indonesia, the Whanganui River and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.

Nikki Macdonald is an award winning senior writer for The Post and Sunday Star-Times. In more than 20 years as a journalist, she has covered multiple disasters, eaten hospital food for a week, puffed through the police fitness test and reported from inside a nuclear power plant. A Marlborough Book Festival veteran, she has interviewed many of New Zealand’s literary legends, including Bill Manhire, Owen Marshall, Catherine Chidgey and Emily Perkins.

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