Garry Griffin and Maggie Asplet purchased their lifestyle block near Gisborne in 2007 and started selling their navel oranges and meyer lemons at the local Farmers' Market the following year. Maggie also makes a range of jams, jellies, marmalades, chutney and sauces, along with freshly baked bread and more recently free range eggs. Both she and Garry are passionate about Farmers' Markets and love selling directly to their customers.
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FMNZ Secretary - Wendy Wilson
Nelson Farmers' Market. 027 434 8944 fmnzsecretary@farmersmarkets.org.nz 
Wendy has been involved with the Nelson Farmers' Market as a committee member since its inception in 2004. She's been involved with FMNZ since it started in 2006 and is presently secretary for both. She is passionate about where her food comes from, how far it comes and how it has been grown. She has her own vegetable garden but it's not big enough to grow it all. She believes the growers and producers are wonderful, hard working, amazing people and the food they provide for us is the best!
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FMNZ Vice Chair / Treasurer -
Jono Walker Waikato Farmers' Markets 021 729 645 jonofmnz@gmail.com 
Arriving in NZ in 2003 from the UK, Jono and wife Sarah run a small mixed farm of heritage breeds of beef, sheep and free-range pigs near Hamilton. All processing is done in an on-site butchery, and all products sold via the local Waikato Farmers' Markets, which Soggy Bottom have been attending since the markets started. Jono is passionate about producing tasty clean food and loves the philosophy of direct selling at Farmers' Markets.
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FMNZ Executive - Cam Booker
Mount Pleasant Farmers' Market and Lyttelton Farmers' Market 
A passionate grower of fresh vegetables who has fallen into a marketing role.
Cam has been involved in the Farmers markets for over 10 years in Canterbury. |
FMNZ Executive - Raewyn Loader
Feilding Farmers' Market 
As Project Manager for Feilding and District Promotion, Raewyn is the dynamite behind all good things that happen in Feilding and has led the Feilding Farmers' Market to win Market of the Year in 2012, 2013 & 2014, Raewyn also won Farmers' Market Manager of the Year in 2014. These awards were the catalyst to attracting his Royal Highness Prince Charles and Camilla to the Feilding market, which has been a career highlight for Raewyn.
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