Keen to try your hand at making your own tea blends? Emma Heke from Nelson-based company Heke Homemade Herbals gives us some tips and tricks for foraging, proportioning and brewing tea in your own kitchen.

As part of the New Year's Honour list for 2021, iconic music Dave Dobbyn was knighted for services to music.  He speaks to Karyn about his incredible career.

If you've never run before - or at least, not for awhile - where's the best place to start? Dr Kelly Sheerin is a senior lecturer at AUT's School of Sport and Recreation, and has some good tips to get you on track.

The Weekend for the Web Test.

Since visiting the Nepal in August for RNZ, Lynn Freeman has been reflecting on an eventful and sometimes stressful three weeks in this remarkable country. So having got most of the documentaries to air now she decided to make a programme about what went into gathering dozens of interviews in the far north and west and in the deep south of Nepal. Many many hours on the road, several canoe trips across rivers frequented by crocodiles, and far too many leech bites.

Yesterday we were talking books in Twizel - today we're slightly further north but still in Canterbury - speaking to Kit from Scorpio Books in Christchurch.

Dunedin students as young as four are working together to first clean up then restore Dunedin's historic Town Belt. The 202 hectare green space was unloved and run down until the launch of the Town Belt Kaitiaki education programme. It's a partnership between students, teachers and the community. The timing is perfect, with kaka and other birds now starting to fly out of the nearby Orokonui Ecosanctuary and needing a safe place to rest and nest. Fourteen schools and early childhood centres are involved.

Our next story takes us on a trip around the beaches of New Zealand - and some abroad, as portrayed in art. Te Papa Museum curator Lizzie Bisley met The Weekend producer Laura Dooney at Island Bay beach in Wellington, to talk about the summer scenes in the museum's collection.

Roses are still a staple in bouquets, but some of the rose species first brought to New Zealand by colonial settlers are disappearing.

For a number of reasons, fewer people are growing roses at home – less time to garden, less land, and perhaps a wish to plant native plants instead Heritage Roses NZ is offering free advice to people or organisations with spare land who are interested in bringing New Zealand's oldest roses back into bloom.

The race is on in Auckland's Hauraki Gulf, where storms and sea swells are threatening an important Maori archaeological site on Otata in the Noises Group of islands. The landowners and local Ngai Tai ki Tamaki are working together to excavate the land to recover information before coastal erosion destroys it. The Noises lie to the north of Rakino and since the 1920s have been owned by the Neureuter family.