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Stack-and-wrap race, Ohakune Carrot Carnival

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Stack-and-wrap race, Ōhakune Carrot Carnival

The annual Ohakune Carrot Carnival, held in the last week of July, is a day that celebrates the contribution that market gardening makes to Ohakune's economy. The carnival includes team races like this carrot and parsnip stacking and wrapping challenge.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Other outdoor crops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20013/stack-and-wrap-race-ohakune-carrot-carnival (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.