Strawberries and asparagus have been around for a few weeks now, and new season's carrots, early potatoes, broad beans, peas and other vegetables are on stalls.
It won't be long now until more summer fruit from Central appears.
A new face at the market is Helen Cleland-Ferguson, of South Otago, who makes cordials, smoothies, jellies, herb vinegars and other old-fashioned recipes, and grows micro-greens.
As a child she used to enter baking and vegetables in A and P shows and fight with her brother over whose turn it was to do the family baking at the weekend.
She remembers bottles of home-made cordials with corks stored under the kitchen sink, and years later asked her mother for the recipes.
We tend to undervalue domestic skills and give status to people who do well in business, she says, but now many of those skills are lost.
She wants to keep old family recipes alive, and is using them for her products.
She loves chatting to people about their old recipes and the stories that go with them.
She shares a stall with Tracey Crampton-Smith and her daughter Aroha who also make preserves.
