Citrus fruit collected from Whangarei will be sent to Canterbury residents to help to fight their winter woes for the second year in a row.
Last year, Christine Stephenson, who moved to Whangarei in 2012 from Christchurch where she had lived for 25 years, organised the first Citrus For Christchurch campaign. It sent well over two tonnes of fruit to the South Island city.
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.
Ms Stephenson is overseas this year so the campaign is being organised by Whangarei's Lions clubs. Spokesman Terry Ward said the clubs hoped to gather two tonnes of fruit.
Last year's fruit was gratefully received by the Christchurch City Mission and supporting co-ops and he was putting out the call for those with excess citrus to bring them to collection days.