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Hydroponically grown lettuces

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Hydroponically grown lettuces

In 1997 Phil Henderson of Raumati was producing a quarter of a million lettuces each year for supermarkets in the southern half of the North Island.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dominion Post Collection (PA-Group-00685)

Reference: EP/1997/1525/17

by Ross Giblin

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Maggy Wassilieff, Market gardens and production nurseries – Covered vegetable crops, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/20019/hydroponically-grown-lettuces (accessed 24 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.