Okiwi Passion - Great Barrier Island

Okiwi Passion - Great Barrier Island Market garden, orchard, nursery operating according to organic principles on Great Barrier Island. Truly local food.

Okiwi Passion grows a wide range of high-quality, non-certified organic produce, including free range eggs. We're on Great Barrier Island and serve the local community and visitors alike. Our products are available at the weekly Stonewall Village Saturday market in Tryphena, and via a fruit/veggie box service. We also supply local cafes and restaurants with fresh salad greens, herbs and other produce. 90% of our produce stays here. We also grow high-quality organically raised seedlings and plants for local gardeners.

Hi folks, we are running low on the following pots that we use for basil, parsley, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. The ...
26/09/2026

Hi folks,

we are running low on the following pots that we use for basil, parsley, tomatoes, peppers and eggplants. The smaller pot measures just over 6.5 cm at the top and the larger pot measures around 8 cm. Always can use 6 cell punnets too.

If you have any spare from plants you have bought from us, we would love to keep them working! If you're in the North please drop in to the bamboo shelter, otherwise in a clearly labelled box for Okiwi Passion, to either Claris Bus Stop (opposite Sandersons) or Medlands Bus Stop, or bring to the market next Saturday after the Wharf to Wharf at Kaitoke School, 3pm.

Very much appreciated! Thank you- Caity and Gerald

Time to get your plants in, off to a good start while the soil is still moist.! Gerald is on his way to the Stonewall Vi...
25/09/2026

Time to get your plants in, off to a good start while the soil is still moist.!

Gerald is on his way to the Stonewall Village Market with beautiful herb, veg and flower seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies! Open at 9.30 am.

Did you know, all our seedlings are grown here at our nursery in Okiwi. And everything is done by hand, from sowing, to pricking out, to hand watering!! Even our plant labels are handwritten bamboo strips we have made ourselves from bamboo sheaths.

We have our potting mix made to order, using only natural inputs, no synthetic fertilisers.

Most of the varieties we grow are tried and true ones that we have grown ourselves over the years here in our gardens.

Bringing today: zucs, cucs, toms, greens, herbs, flowers! Plus apple trees grafted from our own trees, And neem granules for keeping Green Veg Bugs away from your tomato plants.

Oh, and if you have used pots and punnets, please do bring them along- we reuse pots wherever possible to keep them working and keep prices down.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hi there gardeners- we will be at Stonewall Store tomorrow with beautiful healthy seedlings ready to plant. Read below ...
25/09/2026

Hi there gardeners- we will be at Stonewall Store tomorrow with beautiful healthy seedlings ready to plant. Read below to see the list!

Okiwi Passion will be at the Stonewall Market tomorrow 9.30 for seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies ! Read below...
25/09/2026

Okiwi Passion will be at the Stonewall Market tomorrow 9.30 for seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies !

Read below for what we are bringing:

Spring seedlings:
• Tomatoes! cherries, beefsteaks, oxhearts, bush, tall, red, yellow, black and green!!
• Lettuce green batavia (open leafy) and canasta
•Zucchini Cocozelle and Black Coral
• Rampicante
• Cucumbers: lebanese pasqua and tendergreen
• Broccolini (Tasty Stems)
• Snow pea sugar snaps (new)
• Heading Broccoli (marathon)
• Rampicante
• Cabbage mix of red and green varieties
• Curly Kale
• Celery
• Pak choy - fast growing!
• Cardoon
• Flat Leaf Parsley Gigante and Curly Parsley
• Garlic Chives
• Spring onions
• Beetroot
Flowers
• White Alyssum to attract beneficial insects to the garden, tough and drought tolerant
• Echium: loved by bees
• Cosmos Sensation mixed and White : for the beneficials, tough and drought tolerant

Fruit Trees\
• Two apple varieties, tried and proven on Aotea
o 2 x Freyberg: a dense, “dry” skinned apple, similar in flavour to Golden Delicious but even better in our opinion! Sweet, crisp, firm flesh and juicy for fresh eating, when cooked remains firm so ideal for French Apple Tart. Good cropper.
o 4 x Sir Prize: extremely juicy apple which has quite an intense lemony flavour profile. Needs to be eaten fresh off the tree, does not store well. Also an excellent cropper.

Garden Supplies:
• Dusk slug bait: protect vulnerable young seedlings!
• Bt for caterpillars (Diamond Back moths are just coming back now and cabbage whites won;t be far away)
• VAM: mycorrhizal fungus inoculant which will protect plants from disease and enable them to tolerate dry periods better
• Diatomaceous Earth: good source of silica to strengthen cell walls for disease and pest resistance
Plus De-ionised Battery water
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Okiwi Passion will be at the Stonewall Market tomorrow 9.30 for seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies ! Read below...
17/09/2026

Okiwi Passion will be at the Stonewall Market tomorrow 9.30 for seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies !

Read below for what we are bringing:

Spring seedlings:

• Tomatoes! cherries, beefsteaks, oxhearts, bush, tall, red, yellow, black and green!!
• Lettuce cos mix and leafy mix
• Zucchini Cocozelle
• Rampicante
• Cucumbers: lebanese pasqua and tendergreen
• Broccolini (tasty Stems)
• Bohemian sugar snap peas
• Snow pea sugar snaps (new)
• Heading Broccoli (marathon)
• Zucchini Cocozelle and Black Coral
• Rampicante
• Cabbage round mix of red and green varieties
• Curly Kale
• Celery
• Pak choy - fast growing!
• Cardoon
• Flat Leaf Parsley Gigante and Curly Parsley
• Garlic Chives
• Spring onions
• Beetroot

Flowers

• White Alyssum to attract beneficial insects to the garden, touch and drought tolerant
• Pink scented stock: sweet vanilla spice scent
• Echium: loved by bees
• Cosmos sensation mixed and White : for the beneficials, tough and drought tolerant
• Hammett original Sweet peas: simply for the nose (ad the eyes) !!

Fruit Trees

• Two apple varieties, tried and proven on Aotea
o 2 x Freyberg: a dense, “dry” skinned apple, similar in flavour to Golden Delicious but even better in our opinion! Sweet, crisp, firm flesh and juicy for fresh eating, when cooked remains firm so ideal for French Apple Tart. Good cropper.
o 4 x Sir Prize: extremely juicy apple which has quite an intense lemony flavour profile. Needs to be eaten fresh off the tree, does not store well. Also an excellent cropper.

Garden Supplies:

• Dusk slug bait: protect vulnerable young seedlings!
• Bt for caterpillars (Diamond Back moths are just coming back now and cabbage whites won;t be far away)
• VAM: mycorrhizal fungus inoculant which will protect plants from disease and enable them to tolerate dry periods better
• Diatomaceous Earth: good source of silica to strengthen cell walls for disease and pest resistance

Plus De-ionised Battery water

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Reminder Stonewall Market tomorrow 9.30 for seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies ! Be early don't have a huge amou...
11/09/2026

Reminder Stonewall Market tomorrow 9.30 for seedlings, apple trees and garden supplies ! Be early don't have a huge amount of plants this time.

Read below for what we are bringing, ...we will also be bringing our first tomatoes for those who have a greenhouse or somewhere warm for them to grow. (Gardeners Delight cherry tom, Golden Cascade cherry tom, Red Russian, Money Maker, Beefsteak Select, Black from Tula, and the wonderful Aunt Ruby's German Green)

Spring seedlings:
• Broccolini (tasty Stems)
• Bohemian sugar snap peas
• Heading Broccoli (marathon)
• Garlic Chives
• Zucchini
• Cabbage, conehead mix plus round red/green
• Brassica mix (Broc, red and green cabbage)
• Curly Kale
• Celery
• Globe Artichokes (Purple and Green) and Cardoon
• Flat Leaf Parsley and Curly Parsley
• Spring onions
• Beetroot
• White Alyssum to attract beneficial insects to the garden
• Pink scented stock
• Hammett original Sweet peas
• No lettuce sorry, sold out last weekend but will be more next weekend along with first tomatoes

Fruit Trees
• Two apple varieties, tried and proven on Aotea
o 2 x Freyberg: a dense, “dry” skinned apple, similar in flavour to Golden Delicious but even better in our opinion! Sweet, crisp, firm flesh and juicy for fresh eating, when cooked remains firm so ideal for French Apple Tart. Good cropper.

o 4 x Sir Prize: extremely juicy apple which has quite an intense lemony flavour profile. Needs to be eaten off the tree, does not store well. Also an excellent cropper.

Garden Supplies:
• Dusk slug bait: protect vulnerable young seedlings!
• Bt for caterpillars (Diamond Back moths are just coming back now)
• VAM: mycorrhizal fungus inoculant which will protect plants from disease and enable them to tolerate dry periods better
• Diatomaceous Earth: good source of silica to strengthen cell walls for disease and pest resistance

Plus De-ionised Battery water

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Okiwi Passion will be at the Stonewall Village Market this Saturday 9.30 am start! Spring seedlings:• Broccolini (tast...
09/09/2026

Okiwi Passion will be at the Stonewall Village Market this Saturday 9.30 am start!

Spring seedlings:
• Broccolini (tasty Stems)
• Bohemian sugar snap peas
• Heading Broccoli (marathon)
• Zucchini
• Cabbage, conehead mix plus round red/green
• Brassica mix (Broc, red and green cabbage)
• Curly Kale
• Globe Artichokes and Cardoon
• Spring onions
• Beetroot
• White Alyssum to attract beneficial insects to the garden
• Pink scented stock
• Hammett original Sweet peas
• No lettuce sorry, sold out last weekend but will be more next weekend along with first tomatoes

Fruit Trees
• Two apple varieties, tried and proven on Aotea
o 2 x Freyberg: a dense, “dry” skinned apple, similar in flavour to Golden Delicious but even better in our opinion! Sweet, crisp, firm flesh and juicy for fresh eating, when cooked remains firm so ideal for French Apple Tart. Good cropper.
o 4 x Sir Prize: extremely juicy apple which has quite an intense lemony flavour profile. Needs to be eaten off the tree, does not store well. Also an excellent cropper.

Garden Supplies:

• Dusk slug bait: protect vulnerable young seedlings!
• Bt for caterpillars (Diamond Back moths are just coming back now)
• VAM: mycorrhizal fungus inoculant which will protect plants from disease and enable them to tolerate dry periods better
• Diatomaceous Earth: good source of silica to strengthen cell walls for disease and pest resistance

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Spring Seedlings tomorrow at the Growers and Makers Market, Claris Conference Centre, 10am start! Bringing..... Produ...
04/09/2026

Spring Seedlings tomorrow at the Growers and Makers Market, Claris Conference Centre, 10am start! Bringing.....
Produce:

• Microgreens: 3 sizes: 100g 200g and 300g
• Root ginger

Spring seedlings:

• Broccolini (Tasty Stems)
• Bohemian sugar snap peas
• Heading Broccoli (marathon)
• Zucchini
• Cabbage, conehead mix plus round red/green
• Cauliflower
• Brassica mix (Broc, red and green cabbage)
• Kale Curly and Cavolo Nero
• Globe Artichokes
• Spring onions
• Silverbeet
• Collards (similar to kale but more succulent and really large leaves)
• Beetroot
• Lettuce cos mix and leafy mix
• Pink scented stock

Garden Supplies:

• Dusk slug bait: be ready for the little blighters!
• Bt for caterpillars (Diamond Back moths are just coming back now)
• VAM: mycorrhizal fungus inoculant which will protect plants from disease and enable them to tolerate dry periods better
• Diatomaceous Earth: good source of silica to strengthen cell walls for disease and pest resistance

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

Okiwi Passion will be at the Growers and Makers Market this weekend at the Claris Conference Centre, 10am start! Bring...
31/08/2026

Okiwi Passion will be at the Growers and Makers Market this weekend at the Claris Conference Centre, 10am start! Bringing.....

Produce:

• Microgreens: 3 sizes: 100g 200g and 300g
• Root ginger

Spring seedlings:

• Broccolini (Tasty Stems)
• Bohemian sugar snap peas
• Heading Broccoli (marathon)
• Zucchini
• Cabbage, conehead mix plus round red/green
• Cauliflower
• Brassica mix (Broc, red and green cabbage)
• Kale Curly and Cavolo Nero
• Globe Artichokes
• Spring onions
• Silverbeet
• Collards (similar to kale but more succulent and really large leaves)
• Beetroot
• Lettuce cos mix and leafy mix
• Pink scented stock

Garden Supplies:

• Dusk slug bait: be ready for the little blighters!
• Bt for caterpillars (Diamond Back moths are just coming back now)
• VAM: mycorrhizal fungus inoculant which will protect plants from disease and enable them to tolerate dry periods better
• Diatomaceous Earth: good source of silica to strengthen cell walls for disease and pest resistance

LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE!

We will be at the Growers and Makers Market tomorrow- lots of seeds for the seed swap and sale, many are seeds we have c...
31/07/2026

We will be at the Growers and Makers Market tomorrow- lots of seeds for the seed swap and sale, many are seeds we have collected from our own garden, including cupola seeds, orange cosmos, sweet peas, orlaya, zinnias, lots of herbs, and bohemian sugar snaps. We have also bought in two varieties of carrot seed that we have trialled in our garden : Carrot Kuroda Improved - a lovely fast growing bright orange, sweet crisp carrot plus Carrot Amsterdam Sprint which is great for sweet and crunchy baby carrots.

Spent the day digging up plenty of dahlia tubers, various colours and flower sizes and am bringing them too!

Will have slug bait and battery water as well.

Look forward to seeing you there- it's going to be a lovely market so do join us!!

Address

10 Mabey Road
Okiwi
0960

Opening Hours

Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 1pm

Telephone

09 4290 137

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