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Growing up gardening with her grandmother sowed the original seed for heritage seed collector and grower Jemma Ostenfeld.
Originally from Australia's Gold Coast, she's been in New Zealand five years and after learning the ropes of seed collecting in Hawke's Bay, she now collects and sows heritage varieties on a patch of borrowed land at Poroporo in eastern Bay of Plenty.
She grows the seedlings and heritage crops and sells her produce at farmers' markets in the region.
"I try for over 100 years old - they hold the memory of all the times that they've been grown before, so they have more resistance to pests and disease and any envi
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