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Squash harvest

Squash harvest

These squash grown in a market garden in Te Aute, Hawke’s Bay are bound for export to Japan. The Japanese name for squash is kabocha.

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Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
Photograph by James Lawson

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Maggy Wassilieff. 'Market gardens and production nurseries', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 1-Mar-09
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/market-gardens-and-production-nurseries/3/5