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Harvest moon

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Harvest moon

A harvesting machine and truck sit in a cornfield at Twyford near Hastings in 2004. The machines keep working throughout the night to ensure that the corn is picked at its ripest.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – History of market gardening, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20004/harvest-moon (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.