Fay Gock (25 March 1933 – 21 December 2018[1]) was a New Zealand horticulturalist. With her husband Joe Gock, she made numerous innovations in the growing and selling of fruit and vegetables, for which they jointly won Horticulture New Zealand's Bledisloe Cup in 2013. They are credited with the survival of the indigenous sweet potato known as kūmara, integral to Maori cuisine.
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FayGock (25 March 1933 – 21 December 2018) was a New Zealand horticulturalist. With her husband Joe Gock, she made numerous innovations in the growing...
Joe (Moo Lock) Gock QSM (1928 – ) is a New Zealand horticulturalist. With his wife Fay Wong Gock, he made numerous innovations in the growing and selling...
severity through the 1950s. A disease-free strain was developed by Joe and FayGock. They gave the strain to the nation, earning them the Bledisloe Cup in...
crops in the northern North Island. Chinese New Zealand gardeners FayGock and Joe Gock developed a disease-resistant variety of kūmara from a mutant form...
military hospital. In the 1950s, Chinese New Zealand gardeners FayGock and Joe Gock began cultivating kūmara (sweet potatoes) at their farm beside the...
Works, New Zealand Geological Survey, NIWA) (born 1937). 21 December – FayGock, market gardener and horticulturalist (born 1933). 25 December – Bill Baillie...
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