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Vegetable animal

Shows also include vegetable contests for children. This inventive entry in the ‘vegetable animal’ competition only took third prize at the Kaikōura A & P show in 2006. The first prize-winner must have been truly spectacular.

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by Jim Pickles

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Jock Phillips, Shows and field days – Domestic and family competitions, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16780/vegetable-animal (accessed 13 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 1 March 2009.