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Wrightson
Rural supplies stores and provider to the agricultural sector. About the company. Includes online livestock listing service, rural real estate and store specials. Articles and know how section.

Taunton Gardens
Nursery specialising in unusual woodland plants such as triliums, hostas, arisaema, day lillies and other special plants. Online ordering and garden catalogue.

Rakaia
About Rakaia. Listing of businesses and event. Includes online version of the Rakaia News.

Akaroa Historic Area Database - Introduction
A database of all the historic buildings in the Registered Historic Area of Akaroa. Each has a photograph and as much history as can be found to date. View by street or search the database.

DotComma Print & Web Design
Company providing graphic design, print management, web site design and web hosting to small and medium sized businesses, and to individuals. Information on services.

Learning about wine growing in Canterbury

Canterbury's Waipara region and the plains around Christchurch city are the locations in which to find great wine, vineyards and wineries. localeye links to their web sites in the category Out of town: Rural business: Wine. This listing can provide you with general information about grape production in the region as well as more about wineries, vineyards, wine production, viticulture and oenology in Canterbury.

There are broad, informative sites that look at wine production in the region such as New Zealand Wine. It refers to the growing areas in Canterbury:

• The plains around the city of Christchurch, where grapes were first planted in the late 1970s (soils are mainly alluvial silt loams over gravel subsoils)
• The more recently developed valley area of Waipara, an hour's drive north of Christchurch (chalky loams that are often rich in limestone)

It is interesting to note that Chardonnay and Pinot Noir are the most widely planted grape varieties in Canterbury, together making up nearly 60% of the region's vineyard.

TiZ Wine is another site which has information on wine growing, as well as featured wines and vineyards. It has sections on the Canterbury region and Waipara, North Canterbury area.

Tertiary institutions in Canterbury also offer opportunities for study in the area of viticulture, oenology as well as night classes in subjects such as wine tasting. Lincoln University has a Centre for Viticulture and Oenology and CPIT offers the Certificate in Viticulture and Wine Production.

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Images of Canterbury

If you want to see sights and images from around Canterbury, the Out of Town category has a section called Photo galleries & webcams. There are webcams operating at sites by the Waimakariri River, in Ashburton, Hanmer Spring, at the port of Lyttelton and at the Mt Hutt skifield.

Photo galleries feature such areas as Banks Peninsula,  Hanmer Springs, Rangiora, and the Hurunui District.