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 in her discussion with Annabel Langbein.

Kate Evans is an award-winning journalist and nature writer who lives on a plot in Raglan with her young family and a much-loved feijoa tree. Her work has been published in The Guardian, The Observer, Scientific American, and National Geographic and she is a regular contributor to New Zealand Geographic. Kate 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 Africa, Indonesia, the Whanganui River and the 2019 Christchurch mosque shootings.