Tony Jung Farms « Harbourside Market

Tony Jung Farms

Stallholder: Tony Jung

Description

Tony and his family are well known within the market for their fresh, high quality vegetables and their friendly helpful service. Tony’s family originally came from Guangdong Province in the south of China to Levin where they produce the majority of vegetables they sell at the market.

Like the other 11 fruit and vegetable growers at the market, Tony and his family every Sunday morning pack up their truck and leave their farm at 3.00am laden with fruit and vegetable for their Wellington customers. Tony is the co-ordinator for the Harbourside Market Food Partnership programme. At the end of the market, fruit and vegetables are donated by the growers to the City Mission Food Bank and Home of Compassion Soup Kitchen. This programme is unique in New Zealand to Harbourside Market. The generosity of the grower involved is sometimes overwhelming. Tony and his family will also be part of the Sustainability programme where students will work with them to find ways of reducing waste in the farm to market process.

Tony is a great and helpful source of information about fruit and vegetables so always feel free to discuss with him how to pick the best vegetables, what vegetables are in season, how to store vegetables and how to cook the different varieties. Go and visit Tony when you come down to the market on Sunday. You will not be disappointed.