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Kōrero: Auckland region

Market gardening

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Market gardening

Rich soils derived from volcanic ash and lava cover two-fifths of Auckland and produce bountiful crops. These harvesters walk behind a tractor picking up broccoli in a market garden near Pukekohe.

Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi

New Zealand Herald

by Ross Land

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Margaret McClure, Auckland region – Landforms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/15869/market-gardening (accessed 9 July 2026).

He kōrero nā Margaret McClure, i tāngia i te 2 March 2009, updated 1 August 2016.