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The beauty of autumn will be celebrated at the first edition of the Alpine Harvest Festival in Hāwea Flat this Sunday.

The festival is hosted in a partnership of the Your Garden Coach podcast — a monthly podcast providing practical gardening advice — and Alpine Blooms Farm, where the festival will take place.

Alpine Blooms Farm owner Vera Yakzhik said the festival aimed to fill a gap in the area’s festive calendar at a beautiful time of year.

‘‘We don’t really have a harvest festival per se in the area where it’s just celebrating the autumn and the autumn colours and the bounty of it.

‘‘We decided that we would like to organise one and it came to be from there.

‘‘We would just like people to celebrate autumn because it’s absolutely stunning,’’ she said.

Ms Yakzhik said the event was designed to be a fun day out for families on Mother’s Day, and would include range of stalls and autumnal activities designed to celebrate harvest.

‘‘We’ve got about 15 stalls that have local produce, as…