FAQs

The majority of our produce is grown on our own farm, Connings Market Gardens. These are all within an 8-kilometre radius of our Appleby market. We source the rest of our produce from local and New Zealand growers. This keeps our food miles and environmental impact low and our freshness and affordability high.   

Yes, we do. We have a selection of New Zealand grown organic produce, including carrots, sprouts, salad mixes, potatoes, garlic, leeks and onion bulbs. Like all produce, these are seasonal, so stock may vary. 

No, we don’t. Our focus is local fresh produce, meat, dry goods and alcohol. We work collaboratively with our neighbours in Appleby ‘The Junction’ who provide all the dairy products you could possibly need – and more!  

As a store within the Old Factory Corner complex, we have made a conscious effort to work together and support each other.  The Junction are experts when it comes to dairy products, so please visit them just across the car park.   

Please email us at orders@conning.co.nz to organise an appointment with our sales team. We are no longer open for drop-ins and meetings are by appointment only.   

We love to support as many local growers as we can, however if you do not have a NZGAP Certification then you are unable to become a supplier and sell produce through our markets. This policy ensures that the produce we sell is safe for our customers.  

Yes, we sure do! You are welcome to bring your own bag or box and help yourself to the produce scraps that can be found next to the produce chiller and the back of house doors in our Appleby store. We are only able to offer you what is there. Please do not enter the staff only area to check if there are any more produce scraps.   

We love helping charities out whenever possible, so please get in contact with us via our application form. Please note that we do have a donation cap each financial year and that our policy is to only donate produce that we grow on our farm.  

If we need any amazing staff, we will post vacancies to our jobs page. We always keep an eye out for friendly new additions to our team, so if you are looking for work, please send your CV to kate@conning.co.nz and we will be in touch if we have any openings.   

Yes, we are more than happy to help you out and order in specific meat options when we can.   

Please email your request through to hello@conning.co.nz and we will do our best to help you. We do need to know at least a week in advance. Most orders are placed on a Monday morning for the week, so before then is ideal.  

If you are looking to open a wholesale account with us, please email accounts@conning.co.nz for an application form or fill one in online here.  

Happily, we will be staying in Nelson. Currently, we are working on the design for a new purpose-built Connings Food Market to bring our full offering to Nelson in the future.