If the rain that deluged the North Island is the ‘new normal’, how are hard-hit growers

meant to think about the future – and growing anything in the ‘normal’ way?

Vincent Heeringa spoke to Brent Clothier, chief scientist with Plant &

Food, about four ways to think about growing food in a warmer and (ironically)

drier New Zealand.

Note: this was recorded before Cyclone Gabrielle devastated Hawkes bay and Tairawhiti.