Story: Market gardens and production nurseries

A settler bartering tobacco for potatoes and pumpkin

A settler bartering tobacco for potatoes and pumpkin

This sketch, dating from around 1845, shows a Whanganui settler bartering with Māori for potatoes and pumpkins they have grown alongside the Whanganui River.

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Hocken Library, University of Otago
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Drawing by John Gilfillan

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Maggy Wassilieff, 'Market gardens and production nurseries - History of market gardening', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/artwork/20000/a-settler-bartering-tobacco-for-potatoes-and-pumpkin (accessed 25 April 2024)

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 24 Nov 2008