Remember how fruit and vegetables used to taste from the home garden? Every Saturday morning you can browse through a wonderful variety of fresh Wairarapa produce and locally produced foods - all available directly from the producers and growers. Based in the historic old sheep yards at Solway Showgrounds, the Wairarapa Farmers’ Market provides a year-round outlet for local fresh produce and locally produced foods. Operating since 2006, this year the market celebrates it’s 3rd birthday.

Now you can enjoy great food and exceptional service at Featherston’s Royal Hotel. With exciting new menus now in place Chef de Cuisine, Ulli Reinartz, and partner, Dean Davies, are all set to welcome you to dine with them this summer.

As the inevitable occurs and we move to more wholesome food choices – from the ubiquitous TV Dinner era in the 60’s to glorious looking but tasteless genetically engineered fruit and vegetables – we now come full circle to the need to know where our food comes from and to connect with the product in a way that we feel a loyalty to it.