{"id":445056,"date":"2026-05-25T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445056\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:20:09","slug":"mark-longworth-green-party-name-natural-medicine-grower-as-tukituki-candidate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/445056\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Longworth: Green Party name natural medicine grower as Tukituki candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Longworth and his family are converting a property in Elsthorpe to biodynamic growing with a focus on medicinal herbs.<\/p>\n

He holds a Bachelor of Natural Medicine.<\/p>\n

Longworth connected with biodynamics during his schooling at Taikura, the Steiner school in Hastings, a release announcing his candidacy stated.<\/p>\n

Longworth\u2019s campaign will reflect his environmental interests, particularly water management and sustainable land use. <\/p>\n

Transparent governance, strengthening regional communities and mental health access are also high priorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese are critical areas of concern for the people of Tukituki with the climate change hardships our communities are facing,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the heart of all this is my commitment to keeping Te Tiriti, the Treaty of Waitangi, central to our decisions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Longworth is also studying te reo M\u0101ori part-time at EIT.<\/p>\n

His earlier working years included stints as a DJ and music producer in Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n

Tukituki candidates announced to date<\/p>\n

Incumbent Catherine Wedd<\/a> (National), Taine Randell<\/a> (NZ First), Rachel Ward <\/a>(Opportunity), Kaleb Hawkins<\/a> (Independent), Dan Scott<\/a> (Labour), and Mark Longworth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Longworth and his family are converting a property in Elsthorpe to biodynamic growing with a focus on medicinal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8038,806,1558,19956,2740,2518,19392,227110,32573,3193,13617,10136,111,139,69,4762,7234,213,227111,121079],"class_list":["post-445056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-natural","tag-as","tag-been","tag-candidate","tag-former","tag-green","tag-grower","tag-longworth","tag-mark","tag-medicine","tag-name","tag-named","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-party","tag-partys","tag-sports","tag-tukiktuki","tag-tukituki"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=445056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}