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Samantha Smith is a lover of all things green and hopes to inspire young eco warriors with this, her first picture book. Melissa Johns is an artist, illustrator, an avid upcycler and a closet poet. She is passionate about stimulating young minds through art and literature.

Dr Greg Smith is a psychologist who combines an interest in empowering styles of psychotherapy with a passion for yoga, meditation and mind–body awareness. 

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Bevan Smith’s life has always revolved around food since his childhood growing up on a Northland dairy farm. Surrounded by citrus orchards, mum’s lush vegetable gardens and his favourite feijoa hedges. Smoked snapper heads at school, netting for flounder with his dad and boiling up pipis from the beach all helped shape a young, hungry boy’s mind. A move south at age ten revealed a very different food experience. Braided rivers with sea-run salmon, trout and long, slippery eels. Stone fruit, berry farms and tussock covered hills, speckled with wallabies, rabbits and deer. A hunting and fishing paradise. Inspired by his cousin, Bevan began his professional culinary journey by leaving home to train in Christchurch, and went on to cook in prestigious restaurants in London and Brisbane. He finally returned home to the Waitaki plains in 2006 to establish the now famous Riverstone Kitchen. Numerous awards later, Riverstone is beloved for its approach to seasonal food, simply prepared, from the stunning gardens that surround the restaurant. Bevan is the author of three previous cookbooks and a father of two. He continues to cook, travel, teach and inspire others who share his love of ethically produced food and the notion that all people can, and should, eat well.

Dr Greg Smith is a psychologist who combines an interest in empowering styles of psychotherapy with a passion for yoga, meditation and mind–body awareness. 

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Originally from Oamaru, now living in Te Puke, New Zealand, Kingsley Smith completed a B.Ag.Sci at Lincoln University in 1963 and was employed by Lincoln for two years before completing a PhD in Poultry Science at Sydney University. After two years as a research scientist at the University of Manitoba and the University of Missouri he returned to New Zealand as a scientist at the Massey University Poultry Research Centre. In 1980 he took up a post at the Scottish Rural College (formerly Scottish Agricultural College) until 2001. There he specialised in physiology, breeding and genetics. Now in retirement back in New Zealand he has written books on the histories of poultry breeding companies.

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