Can't beat fruit at $2 per kilo
Summer fruit is just starting to come into season. This week at the Carterton Farmers Market ...
Local Growers have a variety of fruit on offer We have ready to eat Luisa, Black Doris, and Omega plums, and the beginning of Leone's sweet Royal Gala apples, as well as a crisp tart cooking apple. The pears include Buerre Bosc. And all this fruit is only $2 per kg. Blackberries are also only $2 a punnet and Aja Rojo, a slightly hotter variety of garlic ,will also be for sale. Helen will not only have her juicy golden grapefruit, but also tasty Beefsteak tomatoes from Garry Foster’s food forest.
All Local Grower produce is spray-free and compost-grown (which means no artificial fertilisers). Other vegetables include amaranth, apple cucumber, basil, bay leaves, beetroot, beans, carrots, corn, cucumbers, chillies, elephant garlic, hazelnuts, kūmara leaf, lambs quarters, lettuce, malabar spinach, NZ spinach, mizuna, potatoes, radishes, rocket, scallopini, silverbeet, sorrel, and zucchini.
Wilf from Henson's Gardens is back after a week's break with his large variety of fresh seasonal produce. This includes broccoli, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, eggs, fennel, kūmara, onions, oranges, potatoes, Māori potatoes, and turnips.
Garden for Life will be selling Elwin Farm’s organically fed, free-range eggs for the next few weeks. Helen also has a range of home-grown seeds, seedlings, and a mixture of tools to help you grow your garden.
Sue and Mitsuo Okano will be here with their Okano Alignment Technique massages.
Also here this Saturday is Helen's Honey and Adrianne's Crafts.
We're be at Memorial Square from 9.00am until 12.30pm so pop along for a looksee. It'll be great to see you there.
Poll: Do you think NZ should ban social media for youth?
The Australian Prime Minister has expressed plans to ban social media use for children.
This would make it illegal for under 16-year-olds to have accounts on platforms including TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and X.
Social media platforms would be tasked with ensuring children have no access (under-age children and their parents wouldn’t be penalised for breaching the age limit)
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Do you think NZ should follow suit? Vote in our poll and share your thoughts below.
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84.6% Yes
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13.9% No
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1.4% Other - I'll share below
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