Join us for the inaugural Harvest Festival, a vibrant local event celebrating the best of Selwyn’s food, drink, and community spirit. This exciting weekend highlights local producers, eateries, and entertainment, with the hero event taking centre stage.
From 28–30 March 2025, cafes and restaurants across Selwyn will serve delicious harvest-inspired dishes. Take this opportunity to explore our fantastic local dining experiences and savour seasonal flavours.
Are you a local producer, grower, eatery, enthusiastic home baker or artisan? Join us in celebrating the season!
Find out how you can be involved here!
If you would like to discuss opportunities and ideas, email tourism@selwyn.govt.nz
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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Brown Acres is dedicated to the growth, harvest and delivery of family-grown, spray-free, organic microgreens. Their vision is to show how tasty and nutritious these farm-fresh superfoods are.
Read moreAward-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.
Learn MoreDunsinane's Black Garlic produces high quality locally made gourmet foods. They currently sell saffron and black garlic.
Read MoreEmilio’s Cheese is a taste of Italian cheese made in the Canterbury Plains. Their cheeses are proudly handmade using local milk and natural ingredients.
Read MoreOn Rolleston's bustling Tennyson Street is the family-run business Helado, your one stop place for artisan gelato.
Read MoreMinchins Milling have been grain growers for four generations and their most recent adventure is turning their grain into flour on site.
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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Read MoreA 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.
Read MoreNestled in the foothills of Selwyn and delivered straight to the butcher's door at Darfield Village Meats, Wakaepa Farm is a great example of controlling the full journey from pasture to plate.
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.
Located in Dunsandel, Nutritional Farm provides hens the best quality of life living on pastured land. They produce highly nutritious eggs that are readily available to local eateries.
READ MOREOne of the largest blueberry growers in Canterbury, is based right here in Weedons.
Get your Berries DirectShandy’s, made up of Sharon and Andy Howard, started selling sauces, oyster mushrooms, elderflower cordial, pates and pestos in 2020.
Read moreWhat comes first, the chicken or the egg? For Dee Oliver and Brendon Albon, their chickens come first. Their small Hororata chicken farm, Little Red Farm is free-range and pasture-raised.
Read moreGladfield Malt supplies their malt internationally, exporting to the South Pacific, China, Japan and India and have their own warehouses in Australia.
Read moreAfter 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.
Read MoreFor 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.
Read moreMark 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.
Read MoreHauora 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