Regular Stallholders

Delicious barazek sesame cookies, date maamou, cheese cakes, deep fried falafal, savouries from the warmer, all prepared by Mariam using her Mother's Middle Eastern recipes that she handed down to her daughter.

Welcome to Angela's colourful world of ink art.  Angela offers original vibrantly decorated blank occasional cards, bookmarks and framed works.  She also has a wide selection of decorated tiles for displaying in your home.

Assura Honey's Boys are the Beekeepers and Mum minds the stall.  These dedicated boys are all away at University, but happily rush back when apiary work calls them.  Assura Honey has locally produced honey in small gift sized bottles right through to buckets! Their tasting table is a busy spot at the market.

Beehaven has a wide selection of adorable handknitted teddies, knitted mice, fingerless gloves, beeswax candles, honey soaps and very funky cloth dolls.  There is plenty to choose from, especially if you are looking for a beautifully hand-crafted gift for that special person.

Bella offers freshly prepared pork and chicken or veggie buns, spring rolls and Biko, Filipino sticky rice.  You will find Bella happily cooking in the kiosk opposite the mighty redwood tree.

Boho Soul make traditional and steampunk jewellery, all cleverly crafted from beads, semi precious stones and metals.  You will find soy candles poured into beautiful teacups sourced from local op shops and one off hand knitted shawls.

Caleb has taken over from his brother James to bring bagged horse manure to the market each week.  What a great way to support a young man who is probably more interested in Theories of General Relativity than the finest points of horse manure.  Caleb knows that more than pocket money will be needed to get him to the university he wants to go to.

Our Vinegar Man knows more about vinegar than anyone else we know, he makes and blends vinegars from a vast array of fruits.  He loves you to taste his products and will probably tempt you to taste a combination that you had never dreamed existed.  If you are interested in a Cider Vinegar health regime, Ian is the man to talk to about including vinegar in your daily diet.

Clareville Bakery are a well loved and regarded family Bakery situated between Masterton and Carterton. Each week they bring their award winning breads hot from the ovens, delicious pies overflowing with scrumptious ingredients, amazing croissants and cronuts, custard squares, Danish pastries and much more. Sarah runs the stall and will be happy to tell you more about what is on offer.

Louisa is a farmer with a passion for growing perennials. Her plants are well grown and her customers attest to the high success rate on replanting. Louisa regularly attends throughout spring and early summer. If you after lobelia, camapanula. penstemons, shrub roses, geraniums, flowering shrubs and hydrangeas, this is the stall to visit.

Daniel is a potato farmer from Carterton. He sells his potatoes in 5kg bags. His early Nadine potatoes arrive at the market in December and his Agria potatoes from February to June. Daniiel knows how to grow great spuds.

Fraser Books has been a publishing company since they published their first book Bread and Roses by Sonja Davies in 1997. Since then, in close collaboration with The Wararapa Archives they have published many books of interest to locals and to historians. Fraser Books visits the market on the first Saturday of each month.

Gladstone Gardens has a massive twin skinned tunnel house and manage to keep the market supplied with vegetables for most of the year. Linda prides herself by growing her vegetables in an organic spray free way, working with the seasons and firmly believes in nurturing and caring for the soil to grow the best vegetables she can. She also runs a flock of chickens and gives them the same care she gives the soil.

Jill and Gayle attend the market on a fortnightly basis, bringing hand made crafts. Jill is a sewer and knitter making hair ties, baby bibs, aprons, beanies and scarves. Gayle is a woodworker making coasters, wall hangings and mobiles. You'll be amazed by the range of goods they offer.

Kingsmeade Cheese has been stall holders at the market since it's inception in 2008. They run a large flock of milk producing sheep to produce their award winning cheeses. Tinui Blue is their signature sheep cheese but you will also find Mt Bruce Havarti, Castlepoint Feta and Riversdale Pecorino along with cow's milk cheese like Sunset Blue and Ngawi Brie. You can taste before you buy too!

Ruth is busy in her kitchen each week using seasonal fruit to make jams, relishes, chutneys, sauces and the most amazing lemon curd. She also has a wide selection of aprons, oven cloths and cleverly designed heat proof mats for placing under dishes in the microwave. Ruth is always on the look out for clean jam jars if you can spare some for her.

Lavender Magic is a Lavender and Flower Farm, tantalisingly hidden in the Tararuas.  Pauline harvests her Lavender in the height of summer and produces award winning Lavender Oil that she adds to her creams, balms and salves.  Her mosquito repellant and gardeners' hand cream are Wairarapa favourites.  Pauline also has a range of hand-made soaps candles and bath bombs.  In the flower season her stall is decked out with beautiful bouquets.  Picked fresh the evening before market, they are bound to give you or your friends days of joy.

Eddie has been a stall holder since the market's inception in 2008, his caravan can be found infront of the market each week. Machiatto roasts and extracts the finest single origin coffee beans, fresh to you, using NZ technology … "coffee without compromise". For milk based coffees there are non-dairy options including soy, almond, oat and coconut, just let him know in advance. You can also buy his freshly roasted coffee beans in take home packs.

Maureen learnt to sew when her children were young and money was tight. This talented seamstress sources all her fabrics from Op shops, washes and irons the fabrics prior to sewing beautiful dresses for children ages 2 - 14. During the winter months she also makes children's coats, often using what would have been expensive up-cycled brocades and courdoroys that she has found. Affordable, ethical clothing for young people.

Mel is a talented needle woman with an eye for matching brightly coloured fabrics to make her equisite range of bags. Each bag is uniquely designed so you will never bump into someone with the same handbag! Her bags have strong zips and multiple pockets to help keep your life in order. She also makes a range of purses and handy travel bags. She even has one for clean and worn undies.

A Māori wahine, māma and weaver (kairanga and kaiwhatu) living and working in the Wairarapa. Of Ngāti Hine and Ngapuhi descent, Manaia weaves Kete, pikau, pōtae and traditional kākahau. All products are handmade from sustainably sourced materials.

Natalia is very talented artist and published author of children's book that she has written and illustrated. Her artwork is stunning and would grace any home. She has a special love of painting flowers, but also has a range of native birds, chickens and horses. Natalia has a large range of art, cards, prints and books available each week.

Sally and her son Geoff specialise in cutting shapes from steel. Their work is suitable for outdoor and indoor display. They carry a large range of animal, moon, snowflake and sun shapes along with single stemmed roses and dream catchers. It's her range of cats that are most popular!

New Zealand distilled, multiple award winning Brandy and Gin, using local fruits. Gabor has brought with him from Hungary his family's multigenerational knowledge of making fruit Brandies. With a broad smile, Gabor tells us his Brandies and Spirits just get better and better! We have an alcohol licence area at the back of the market where those over 18 years old, can sample and chat to Gabor, about his distillery.

​Parkvale Mushrooms no longer sell directly to the public. They generously offer their unsold mushrooms each week, for the Market Committee to sell on a 50/50 split. Each week we are able to offer Portabello Flats and Gourmet Brown Buttons that are freshly grown in their Carterton Mushroom Factory. We are very grateful to Margaret and Clive and thank them for their generosity.

​Don is a talented wood craftsman who uses upcycled wood to make children's toys. The range of old native timbers gives his work a special and unique look. He has a large selection of pull along toys to delight any toddler and beautifully sanded blocks of varying hues, contained in a kete for easy transport and hopefully a tidy house. Toys made by a craftsman using old recycled wood. These toys will last many generations.

​Ridgeway Olives planted their grove on 2001 and has produced Extra Virgin Olive Oil since their first harvest in 2005.Their oil is always fruity, sometimes intense and sometimes mild, depending on the year's climate. They harvest with family and friends, are spray free and pride themselves on doing all the work themselves, from digging the holes to now pruning the massive growth from the trees. They offer oil tasting each week. They also sell fresh walnuts in their shells, from their walnut grove.

Karyn is a talented potter who specialises in funky animals and houses. Her Beatrix Potter range of Peter Rabbit, Flopsy Mopsy and Cotton-tail are in hot demand. Each week she brings new items fresh from the kiln. She also has a selection of her artwork.

Rose is our local Wairarapa expert on dying wool from plants. Her extensive garden is testimony to her passion to get the best colours from plants that she has grown. Rose sells hanks of her dyed wool and often includes free patterns to get you started. She is a knitter's dream come true!

Steve has years of experience ethically sourcing seaweed washed up on the East Coast of the Wairarapa. He is a great source of knowledge of the different seaweed types and will help you sort out any fertility issues you may have with your soil. Steve dries and chops the seaweed to make it easier to use and also makes seaweed tea that you can dilute at home.

Discover the beauty of handcrafted cement homeware. Brandon has a talent for pouring fruit bowls, cupped hands and pots for indoor and outdoor planting. He has an eye for detail and has perfected adding colour to his cement, to make interesting patterns on the final products.

Lynne and her sister have a range of handmade crafted goodies including a big selection of 100% cotton tea towels with amusing embroidered sayings and designs of them.  They sell a large range of useful items including but not limited to doorstops, heat packs, aprons, peg bags, cuddle toys, reading pillows, lavender sachets, hanging hand towels, embroidered coat hangers and a baby range.

​Tracy and Kevin ethically source their wild gourmet ingredients from certified local providers. Their gourmet pies contain delicious braised rabbit or goat with plum ragout, paua, cider braised pork and apple, braised venison with mushroom or for the sweet tooth apple strudel pies and traditional eccles cakes. They also make traditional camp oven bread including a camp oven fruit loaf that when toasted with butter is like an enormous hot cross bun! There is a lot of yummy food to choose from.

Sue and Robyn are our Two Crafty Heifers. Robyn makes beautiful cushions, table runners and dog's coats. Sue has fiddly fingers and makes copper trees, silk flowers, bead brooches and bangles. All their products are made by them. Each week they have new stock on their stall. They are two very busy Crafty Heifers.

​Richard from Verdia is an inventor. His latest venture is making vertical gardens, cleverly using an internal worm farm to ensure the tightly planted garden gets all the nutrients it needs to thrive. Richard makes the gardens from repurposed drain pipes, adding extra drainage holes and adding an auger to manage the worm farm. He is a thinker and doer - fascinating to talk to about what he is mulling over in his quest to improve the world!

Wairarapa Eggs is a family owned chicken farm in the Carterton district selling free range eggs in both cartons of 12's, 18's and trays of 30.  Chris and his family ensure that the chickens are free to roam and have access to top quality feed, water, sun and shade.  A happy hen lays a happy egg, full of goodness for you to enjoy.

Every Friday night, the pizza oven fire at The Watermill Mill Bakery is lit using firewood planted and harvested from Boly and Gerlinda's beautiful property at Mt Holdsworth. Boly delivers freshly prepared pizza bases to the market each week, so that customers can enjoy preparing and baking their own pizzas. Our Farmers' Market sign over the northern door of the market, is testimony to his love of the Farmers' Market.

The Southey family bring their ripe cherries to market in the lead up to Christmas. Next we see them in early January with their plums, followed by peaches. Their season finishes with their apple crop. Farmers' Market are all about seasonality. There is always excitement when we know Wharemuku are joining us with their delicious fruit.

Sharon and Lynn bake their amazing muesli so that you don't have to. Filled with delicious nuts, coconut, cranberries and honey their Muesli is highly sought after. They also rock up in a very cool pink Austen 30 van. Although not with us every week, they attend regularly and can be found with their van near the coffee cart.

​Zac first came to the market as an 8 year old and told us he wanted to buy land when he was older and thought that selling his grandparent's pine cones would be a good start. Although he now lives in Picton, Zac visits Nana and Granddad every school holidays and picks up pine cones for them to sell on his behalf during the fire season. We 'take off our hats' to grandparents who help their grandchildren realise their dreams. Let's hope Zac gets to buy his piece of land one day.

Contact our secretary to join our team of enthusiastic stallholders via email on waifmsec@gmail.com