Vege Mao Farm Fresh is a produce market on Chattertons Road in Templeton, on Christchurch's rural western edge, and it holds a five-star Google rating. A good produce market lives or dies by turnover: stock that sells fast is replaced fast, which is why the best-looking boxes are usually there first thing. Shopping with the seasons pays off too, as locally grown lines are fresher and cheaper at their peak, while out-of-season produce has travelled further and shows it. Regulars tend to shop with their eyes rather than a fixed list, and they check the bottoms of punnets and bags, since the freshest stock is rarely the most uniformly polished. In a spot like Templeton, with farmland close by, freshness and seasonality are the two things most worth watching for. For Templeton locals, a produce market a short drive down Chattertons Road makes the fresh, seasonal shop an easy habit.