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FOOD WEEK.

Join us for a delicious week-long celebration of our region’s kai and community. Discover, share, and enjoy locally produced food through a series of fun and engaging events.

Community Wellbeing

Each year, Food Week focuses on themes that reflect local strengths and challenges. This includes supporting local growers and producers, sharing practical skills, and building awareness around food resilience and environmental care.

At its core, Upper Hutt Food Week exists to strengthen community wellbeing. By bringing people together around food, it helps build knowledge, confidence, and connections that last well beyond the week itself.

Apples for the Harvest Festival

Heritage Nurseries have arranged for a pallet of Apples for Food week – and Apples will be popping up all over Upper Hutt during the week ….think Apple Pies, Toffee Apples – Apples for kids lunch boxes watch out for Apples during food week.

Food Bank Food Tasting

Upper Hutt Salvation Army, Orongomai Marae and Upper Hutt Food Bank are combining to host a special Food Bank Lunchtime tasting at the Salvation Army.

Grow Movie

Monterey Theatre are showing a special Movie for Food Week – GROW is a Family Movie about a pumpkin growing competition Movie – launching specially during Food Weeks opening weekend and showing for the whole week and beyond – purchase tickets at Monterey for the special opening night with bubbles and popcorn.

Upper Hutt Food Week

A celebration of local food, people, and places

Upper Hutt Food Week is a lively, week-long celebration of food, culture, and community. From foraging walks and open gardens to shared meals, food talks, tastings, and hands-on experiences, the event brings together growers, makers, cooks, hunters, educators, and neighbours.

Across the city, food trucks, cafés, schools, gardens, and local venues come alive with events that explore where food comes from, how it is grown or gathered, and why sharing it matters. Whether your interest is backyard vegetables, wild ingredients, local producers, or cultural food traditions, there is something to explore.

More than a Festival!

Food Week invites people to reconnect with food in meaningful ways. It celebrates flavour and fun while encouraging practical conversations about seasonal eating, local knowledge, and caring for the environment that feeds us.