A feijoa festival is being planned for Wanganui - and the organiser doesn't even like the popular autumn fruit.
Lyn Pearson is hoping to hold the one-day festival in early May, before the feijoa season finishes.
The festival would be held at the education room at the Whanganui Resource Recovery Centre in Maria Pl, and would include feijoa-themed book and poetry readings, making feijoa artworks, planting feijoa trees, feijoa tasting and cooking with feijoas.
"I've already been given a recipe for feijoa chutney and a feijoa smoothie," Mrs Pearson said.
However, she is adamant someone else will have to organise the cooking as she can't stand the taste or smell of feijoas.