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Picking raspberries, 1948

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Picking raspberries, 1948

These women are picking berries from raspberry canes on a Greytown berry farm. Raspberries require a cold winter for good fruit production, and are mainly grown in the South Island, with smaller quantities in the southern North Island, around Greytown and Levin.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, New Zealand Free Lance Collection (PAColl-0785)

Reference: PAColl-8983-32

by D. Pickard

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Sandy Scarrow, Citrus, berries, exotic fruit and nuts – Boysenberries and raspberries, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16028/picking-raspberries-1948 (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Sandy Scarrow, published 1 March 2009.