Journal
We’re moving the blog in a new direction - meet the journal!
The Journal will feature conversations with the people behind local businesses - their spaces, their work, their thinking, and the reality of building something in Dunedin.
We’re interested in how things are made, why they exist, and what it actually takes to keep going. The detail. The discipline. The decisions.
This space is about our small businesses doing good work - thoughtfully, creatively, and in their own way. There’s a lot happening in this city, and we’re excited to share more of it.
We’re currently working on our first round of features, and they’ll begin rolling out shortly. We’re really looking forward to introducing them.
Know a Dunedin business that would be neat to feature? Email editor@dunedinonline.co.nz and let us know.
Eiderdown: Locally made comfort since 1972
There’s something pretty special about sleeping under bedding that’s been made right here in Ōtepoti Dunedin. Eiderdown has been crafting premium duvets, pillows, and bedding for over 50 years and they are still proudly a small New Zealand business keeping things local.
mea: Perfume from local taonga
Keeping Maori culture alive with fragrance? That’s the idea behind ‘MEA’, the beautiful perfume brand created by Kāti Huirapa Rūnaka ki Puketeraki with the support of Te Rūnanga o Ngāi Tahu.
The age of online
Our online shopping directory has existed since 2013 but has really “come into its own now”. Welcome to the Age of Online! We set up a new category for those businesses that are open for trading and offering home delivery during lockdown. We hope the service helps to connect people at home with Dunedin businesses so they can support them in this difficult time while also avoiding going out in public unnecessarily.
How Dunners does dairy differently
Part Two of guest writer Toby Bennett’s blog series for Dunedin Online on the city’s food scene is an epic love letter to local dairy.
Defiantly Definitively Dunedin!
In his first in a blog series for Dunedin Online, guest writer Toby Bennett waxes lyrical about his adopted hometown’s food scene. This blog series is all about tantalisingly, titillating terrific tipple and tucker, funky fresh flavours and the geniuses and gourmands making it happen.
Off the backburner
We’ve come out of hibernation to relaunch our beloved Dunedin Online. When a project is a side-hustle, as Dunedin Online was when it began, it’s easy to become distracted by the bigger fish. Now, having sold the 16-year bigger fish, we are ready to realise the Dunedin Online dream and implement all the ideas for it we have had percolating in the last few years.