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Aotearoa Grown

Name: Aotearoa Grown
Address: 24B Waterview Crescent, Kaiwaka 0573, New Zealand, Auckland, NZ
Telephone: 022 127 9609
Location: Aotearoa Grown

The inception of Aotearoa Grown emerged from a pivotal moment during the first Covid lockdown, prompting Sara Bennett and Andrew Withell to re-evaluate their lives. Their products are available online and seasonally at the Grey Lynn Farmers Market

“She's looking to spending more “golden tickets” next week - Brazilian cheese rolls and freshly crushed sugar cane juice (Aotearoa Grown) are top of her treat …”

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Their Story

The inception of Aotearoa Grown emerged from a pivotal moment during the first Covid lockdown, prompting Sara Bennett and Andrew Withell to re-evaluate their lives. Andrew, formerly head of the Art and Design School at AUT, and Sara, a consultant with a PhD in Community Health, embarked on a 'bold…

What They Make

Fresh tropical fruits (including papaya, pineapples, nine varieties of bananas, passionfruit, chocolate sapote, mango, sugar cane, dragonfruit (Palora Dragonfruit), jackfruit, guavas, cherimoya, casimiroa, tamarillos, starfruit, banana blossoms), Gut Nourish dietary supplement (blending freeze-dried green banana and papaya), Freeze Dried Ladyfinger Bananas (fruit snacks), tropical fruit-infused yogurt (in collaboration with Belle Chèvre Creamery), freeze-dried papaya and banana (in collaboration with Fresh As), freshly crushed sugarcane juice (seasonal at markets).

More from Aotearoa Grown

Gut health supplementsFreeze-dried fruits

How to Get Their Products

Farmers' Markets

Grey Lynn Farmers Market

Auckland·Sun 8:30-12

Direct Sales

24B Waterview Crescent, Kaiwaka 0573, New Zealand

Online

Nationwide delivery via online ordering (ships Mondays and Tuesdays, free shipping for supplements and fruit snacks), Grey Lynn Farmers Market (most Sundays in spring and summer), Origin Northland (physical store in Waipu).