Owner seeks new challenge after business blossoms at Whanganui berry farm
23 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Almost every part of the Windermere berry farm is taken up with tunnel houses. Photo / Hothouse Photography
Almost every part of the Windermere berry farm is taken up with tunnel houses. Photo / Hothouse Photography
Laurel Stowell is a reporter for the Whanganui Chroniclelaurel.stowell@whanganuichronicle.co.nzWhangaChron
When former banker Tony Boswell bought Windermere Gardens in 2011 it had been out of business for a year and parts were in weeds. The next year the crops made $522,000. The year after that it was $833,000. This year it will be $2.75 million, and $3.25 million the year after that, Boswell said.