From pasture to plate
Taste Selwyn celebrates the best food grown and crafted in our region for the month of May.
It is now finished for 2023.
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Our Eateries
Dinner
Tai Tapu Hotel
Brunch
Grain & Grape
Lunch
Langdale Vineyard Restaurant
Dinner
The Famous Grouse
Lunch
Memorys Restaurant
Lunch
The Store @ Tai Tapu
Lunch
Union Fare Eatery
Brunch
Helado Gelato and Coffee Garden
Lunch, Dinner
Little India
Brunch
Café on the Green
Lunch
The Fat Beagle Café
Lunch
General Post
Brunch, Lunch
Les Délices
Lunch, Dinner
Smoke
Lunch, Dinner
Maddison Eatery
Brunch, Lunch
Hororata Village Bar and Café
Upcoming Events
Darfield Artweek
Saturday, 7 October 2023
Join the Malvern Community Arts Council for a week in October for their 42nd community art exhibition.
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Selwyn Spring Show | Ellesmere A&P Show
Saturday, 14 October 2023
A fun day in the country for the whole family!
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Hororata Parish Spring Fair
Monday, 23 October 2023
The annual Hororata Parish Spring Fair is a great way to spend Labour Day, so come out for a drive and have some family fun.
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Spring Garden Open Days
Wednesday, 25 October 2023
Visit Selwyn’s award-winning gardens opening in spring.
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Hororata Highland Games
Saturday, 11 November 2023
The Hororata Highland Games returns on 11 November 2023!
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Sheffield Country Polo
Saturday, 11 November 2023
Put the date in your diary - the Sheffield Polo is back for it's second year!
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Selwyn Sounds
Saturday, 2 March 2024
Selwyn Sounds is returning in 2024. Our aim is to make sure everyone has a great day out so we’ve including a whole range of fantastic…
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Leeston Fete
Saturday, 23 March 2024
A fun, family-friendly annual event taking over the main street of Leeston this March.
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The Buzz of High Country Honey
Firefighter by day, fourth generation Selwyn beekeeper on his days off, Simon Aarts enjoys working with the small black and yellow insects he was once frightened of.
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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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A Little Red Farm in Hororata
What 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.
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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
