Christchurch Farmers' Market
Saturday market of local growers and artisans beside a historic homestead and remnant native forest.
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This guide to Christchurch Farmers' Market follows the Deans family, who farmed these grounds from the eighteen-forties, and a signed promise to protect the kahikatea forest at the edge of the stalls. It touches a shipwreck, a young widow named Jane, and the campaigners who took up her husband's wish decades later. Best heard walking from the homestead toward the trees.
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