{"id":12945,"date":"2025-03-06T06:39:28","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:39:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12945"},"modified":"2025-03-06T06:39:28","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:39:28","slug":"why-is-new-zealand-garlic-so-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/?p=12945","title":{"rendered":"Why is New Zealand garlic so expensive?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once said shallots are for babies, garlic is for heroes, but you may have to pay heroic prices for the home grown stuff.<\/p>\n<p>At Woolworths a single bulb of garlic costs $4. Garlic imported from China is selling for $3.99 cents a bag, with about a dozen bulbs in a bag.<\/p>\n<p>Murphy&#8217;s Garlic chief executive John Murphy, who is chairman of Vegetables NZ, told\u00a0<i>Checkpoint\u00a0<\/i>there are extra challenges to grow garlic in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We do have some special challenges in New Zealand, particularly compared to some of those other markets overseas. Our land and our water are significantly different in terms of what we pay.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The good thing for us is the combination of those things means that we end up with product that chefs tend to opt for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RNZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Someone once said shallots are for babies, garlic is for heroes, but you may have to pay heroic prices for the home grown stuff. At Woolworths a single bulb of garlic costs $4. Garlic imported from China is selling for $3.99 cents a bag, with about a dozen bulbs in a bag. Murphy&#8217;s Garlic chief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":12946,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[222,174],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12945","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-nz-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12947,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12945\/revisions\/12947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12946"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebuzz.apnanetwork.co.nz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}