Lavender Fields was initially planted in 1995 by Jim Curnow, when he was 64. This makes
it one of the earliest lavender farms in New Zealand. Angustifolia, Stoechas, and X Intermedia
were planted, with propagation and oil production in mind.
Jim’s daughter, Clare, and her husband Kevin have been involved
for much of this time, more extensively since 2010.
The still was commissioned in 1998. Clare has been manufacturing
her “Declare” range of products since 2011. These products all include Lavender Fields’
essential oils, and other carefully sourced oils and natural ingredients. No animal products,
parabens, sulphates or petro-chemicals are used.
Jim, played an active role in Lavender Fields, especially in the
distillation of the quality award winning essential oils, until he passed away aged 92 November the 19th 2014.
Clare and Kevin are carrying on Jim’s legacy, running the farm
and distilling the highest quality oils.

Airbrushing, Branding, Colour Graphics, Design, Imaging, Lettering, Banners, Colour Graphics. The other business is Laser cutting acrylic sheets cut to size, making display showcases, and of course fabricating acrylic signage. Along with our 25 years in the trade, and numerous awards

Hair design and hair dressers

We are a family owned Drainage/Construction company based in Christchurch working on horizontal infrastructure rebuild and other related projects.

We are Julie and Matt, owners of Liberation Jewellery and Home wares. Navigating through the world of small business ownership together, we place an emphasis on community, the handmade and reducing the environmental impact of our products. Our studio is based at home, in the small beach settlement of Pines Beach. We have a love of developing new designs that stand out from the crowd, selecting wood based on its characteristics for each design, offering a personality to each piece that only wood can give.

Wood
Made from furniture off cuts, we try to utilise the wood by even using our off cuts to make smaller products such as earrings. Any additional wood is from responsible sources, or recycled goods..

Packaging
Made from environmentally friendly cardboard: reuse, recycle or feed to some worms.

Lazy Lunches is a supplier contracted to the Ministry of Education to supply Lunches in schools

Meet our team take 1!

My name is Ataahua Solomon, I was born and raised in Kaiapoi and over the last 2 years have the privilege to provide some of my local schools and families with lunches under the Ka Ora, Ka Ako program. I am a mother of 4 children, 2 girls and 2 boys!

I first started making lunches for my own children, I had purchased cute bento boxes and all the accessories to make lunches more enjoyable for my kids. Hiding all the nutrients behind cute food picks, containers and my trusty sandwhich and cookie/fruit cutters. My son, Kereama, has autism, desperately, I was trying to widen his taste pallet. I began posting these on my Facebook and instagram pages where families are friends would jokingly ask for a lunch providing service and instead of saying no, I said yes! And off we went into this fun new journey, and Lazy Lunches was born.

Even though I originally started making lunches privately to take the burden off of busy families I was approached by one of our schools who had just been invited into the program, with no current suppliers in my area they were in need of one to become approved under the MOE and again, I said Yes!

I put in a lot of hard work, from council applications, Menu planning, working with a nutritional advisor (on many occasions), sourcing suppliers, business planning, waste solutions and the list went on. Once I was approved and ready to supply my first school I needed to find some staff who could help me (you will get to meet our team). At the beginning, the 3 of us would start at 6am to get lunches out on time. After a while we managed to cut our time down by afew hours.

Shortly after we were approached by another school, and then another and now with LL we have created 4 permanent jobs and 2 casual positions while successfully proving 600 lunches a day.

This program and it’s success is important to me because of who it impacts. Me and my team try hard to listen to the voice of the students and take in every piece of feedback that is provided by each school and adjust our meals as needed as quickly as we can. We also make changes based on intake. If we notice a meal isn’t as popular and we have room to change then we do.

Our vision has always remained the same – To provide families with nutritional lunches that fall inside the requirements or the MOE.

If you would like to know more or need to get in touch, feel free to hit the message button at the top

Ataahua

Love Your Home – New to Kaiapoi. “Love your Home” with Suzie. Offering home decor – indoor and outdoor with French Country, Lemonde, CC Interiors, Rembrant, Madras, Le Forge and art with Christine Watton.

Handmade wedding and event signage, personalised gifts, home decor and more!

So many new products! Featuring our newly released keepsake boxes More ideas and designs coming! So many wedding signage and so little time wouldn’t change it!

Kaiapoi’s newest laundromat!
10 washing machines and 15 dryers, and the largest dryers in the region.

Eftpos , NO top up cards here!

Corey and Andrea