Enjoying that mid-winter citrus fruit overload, but wondering what to do with all your spare fruit?
Whangarei's Lions Clubs have the answer, bring it to Forum North on August 5 and it will be sent to help residents in the deep south experience some free mid-winter citrus.
This will be the fourth winter in a row citrus has been collected from Whangarei after it was started in 2014 by Christine Stephenson, who moved to Whangarei in 2012 from Christchurch where she had lived for 25 years.
She got the idea when she saw the excess fruit around Northland and recalled how hard it was to get in Christchurch. Citrus is also good at helping fight the winter sniffles.
Whangarei's Lions Clubs have been running the collection for the past three years and after sending more than six tonnes of fruit south last year, organiser Terry Ward said the collection would be held again at Forum North from 8am to 2pm on August 5.