Celebrate Harvest and Autumn in Selwyn
Join us for the annual Harvest Festival, a vibrant local event celebrating the best of Selwyn’s food, drink, and community spirit. The festival highlights local producers, eateries, and fun entertainment.
Saturday 14 March 2026
10am–3pm
Rolleston Town Centre (green space behind Te Ara Ātea)
- Farmers' Market: Explore stalls featuring Selwyn’s incredible local producers, growers, and wineries.
- Tastings and demonstrations: Experience the rich flavors of Selwyn with hands-on opportunities to learn about our local food and drink.
- Family-friendly activities: See the farmyard animals, enjoy pony rides, bouncy castles, face painting, amusement rides and hay bale maze.
- Entertainment: Enjoy live music and a vibrant atmosphere.
- Community showcases: Discover displays from community gardens, showcasing creativity and sustainability.
If you are interested in taking part in the Harvest Festival, please complete this Expressions of Interest form.
Our Producers
Melton Estate
Melton Estate is known for their handcrafted boutique wines and restaurant overlooking their picturesque Pinot Noir vineyard on the outskirts of West Melton.
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Jones Family Farm
If you prefer sheep milk to cow’s milk, or if you fancy trying it out and learning about its benefits, then the Jones Family Farm products might be exactly what you are looking for.
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Coalgate Honey Co.
Award-winning Coalgate Honey Co. is a small family owned and operated business based in Coalgate. They offer a variety of single sourced honeys including Raw Liquid Honey and Beech Honey Dew.
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Dunsinane's Black Garlic
Dunsinane's Black Garlic produces high quality locally made gourmet foods. They currently sell saffron and black garlic.
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Helado
On Rolleston's bustling Tennyson Street is the family-run business Helado, your one stop place for artisan gelato.
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Shandy's
From oyster mushroom powder, to a variety of sauces and their popular elderflower cordial, their products are just too good not to share.
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Straight 8 Estate
Producing an award-winning range of single vineyard wines including Rose, Riesling, Chardonnay and Pinot Noir, giving you great wines that will cellar well.
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Streamside Organics
A certified organic market garden in Leeston, committed to supplying high quality fresh produce to the local community through farmers markets, vege boxes, restaurants and organic wholesalers.
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White Heart
Based in Tai Tapu, White Heart is your one stop shop for all things hazelnuts and hazelnut mixes from your perfect hazelnut breakfast topper to roasted hazelnuts for snacking.
Producer Stories
Get Your Berries Direct
One of the largest blueberry growers in Canterbury, is based right here in Weedons.
Get your Berries Direct
Handy Dandy Shandy's
Shandy’s, made up of Sharon and Andy Howard, started selling sauces, oyster mushrooms, elderflower cordial, pates and pestos in 2020.
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Crafting Malt in Dunsandel
Gladfield Malt supplies their malt internationally, exporting to the South Pacific, China, Japan and India and have their own warehouses in Australia.
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Unearthing Selwyn's White Gold
After living in West Melton for 15 years, Lisa and Stephen were ready to explore more of what Selwyn had to offer. They never expected that their next step would be unearthing Selwyn’s white gold.
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The Bliss of Picking Blueberries
For Wendy and Don Babe, it’s not just about selling their blueberries. It’s about opening their farm gates and seeing the community enjoy the ripest blueberries from over 2,000 blueberry bushes.
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A Passion for Raw Milk
Mark is focused on being as sustainable as possible, limiting the amount of spray used and selling their raw milk in reusable glass bottles instead of plastic, saving over 240,000 one-litre plastic bottles.
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A Hauora approach to harvesting
Hauora is the Māori philosophy of health, which put into context of a berry farm, means producing delicious products in an environmentally friendly and sustainable manner.
A Hauora approach to harvesting
