The Birkdale / Beach Haven area has a long history. For Māori, the bush and waters around this peninsula provided a bountiful supply of seasonal food.
The hard-working and innovative fruit growers were renowned for producing New Zealand's best strawberries. Birkdale is also where the first wooden strawberry chips (punnets) were made. Join author and historian Matt Elliott as he serves up this 'punnet of history' on the North Shore’s cultural and strawberry-growing industry of a century ago.