Blog: Wine of the Week with The Vintry

Each week our gorgeous wine bar, The Vintry, showcases a different Matakana ‘Wine of the Week’ Join The Vintry team and be offered a tasting, hear the story of the vineyard, its grapes and wine style. On Fridays and Saturdays you may even be able to meet the winemaker! Wednesdays at 2.30pm, you can hear…

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Blog: Village Health Shop – massage with Jonathan Lane

Saturdays and on Fridays by appointment, Jonathan from Lane Massages is at the Village Health Shop, for chair massages.  Phone 09-422 9083.

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Blog: Michael Kessell – Farmers’ Market Manager Extraordinaire

How I became a market manager of 40 stalls. Michael Kessell’s job at the genteel Matakana Village Market is a world away from his time spent helping street kids. But the 60-year-old says his diverse past provides the perfect platform for his role as market manager. “If you want a challenge, try running 40 stalls…

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Blog: New Zealand’s Matakana Gets Chic: Air Canada ‘en route’ article

New Zealand’s Matakana Gets Chic How a tiny village north of Auckland transformed from a dying rural community to a vibrant place full of visionaries, artists and business people. By David Lansing Share This Print Photo: Amber Share I’m hunkered over the wheel of my rental car, and I’m anxiously navigating a windy coastal road…

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Blog: Glorious oranges – with Lauraine Jacobs

Glorious oranges By Lauraine Jacobs for NZ Listener. Make the most of our beautiful locally grown oranges, which can be used in a variety of ways. Farmers’ markets have been in the news: the debate continues to rage over food prices (aren’t we all sick of hearing about tomatoes, peppers and beans?) and I have…

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Blog: Plump, pastel, perfect Macarons

A very favourite thing… On my adventures I sometimes come across things that simply need to be written about.  In a roundabout way, these little gems can be seen as event related.  Well, they can be served at an event! I like to think of myself as a bit of a Macaron connoisseur.  I have…

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Blog: Matakana Farmers’ Market Featured on Homestyle Blog

Escaping Auckland for the day, Editor Lucinda Diack and friends headed out to discover the local treats on offer at Matakana and their renowned Farmers’ Market. Christine (right) and I found ourselves overwhelmed with choice, for a tasty Saturday morning treat!   A short and scenic trip north from the hustle and bustle of the city…

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Blog: The Gaurdian UK Article

I’d heard all about New Zealand: sleepy; sheepy; 1950s England; dull and duller colonial cakes and overcooked roasts. Forget it. Auckland is so deliciously cosmopolitan that I’m wondering quite why I don’t live there. Auckland is the world’s most populous Polynesian city. It’s an isthmus circled by dramatic extinct volcanos, rubbed by the unpolluted South Pacific waters…

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Blog: Flooding at Matakana Village

If you look around the Matakana Village now, its hard to believe that 10 days ago it was ankle deep in mud and silt from the river, and at the rivers peak around 1am, the ground floor shops were under a foot of water. We experienced two tropical cyclones within a week. In the first,…

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Blog: Christmas Window Display Competition

Congratulations to the Bach Surf Shop for winning the Matakana Village Christmas Window display as voted by the customers! See below for pics of the winning window and for other stores that competed for the publics vote.

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