What can be sold

Gate + Gather is for plants, flowers, seedlings, seeds, bulbs and closely related grower products that are lawful and safe to sell in New Zealand. In practice that means potted plants and seedlings, divisions and cuttings, bare-root stock, houseplants, edible starts, tubers, corms and bulbs, seeds (subject to biosecurity rules), and the small associated items a grower reasonably sells alongside — pots, labels, cuttings compost, hand-tied bunches, and preserved or dried flowers grown by the seller.

This is intentionally narrow.

Keeping the scope tight lets us build the platform properly for one kind of seller — the independent grower — without getting pulled into the moderation load of a general marketplace. We can add new categories later when we're confident Gate + Gather can support them, our moderation team is set up for them, and the biosecurity, safety and consumer-law implications are well understood. If you're a grower who would like a category considered, tell us — we'd rather hear from real sellers than guess.

Do not list:

• illegal or controlled drugs or drug-related products
• weapons, explosives or products intended to cause harm
• sexual services, pornography or sexually exploitative material
• people, human remains or human biological material
• stolen, counterfeit or unlawfully obtained goods
• dangerous poisons, hazardous substances or unsafe products
• plants, fungi, seeds or other biological material that are prohibited, restricted or unsafe to possess, propagate, distribute or sell
• pest plants, unwanted organisms or other material prohibited by NZ biosecurity or environmental rules
• protected plant material where sale or propagation is unlawful
• products that infringe another person's intellectual-property or propagation rights
• live animals, and animal products where sale would breach welfare, safety or biosecurity rules
• anything else unlawful to possess or sell in New Zealand.

If you're not sure whether a particular plant, cultivar or grower product falls inside the "what can be sold" line, the safest option is to ask us before you list it. We would much rather answer a quick question than take a listing down after the fact.

New Zealand's biosecurity settings exist to protect the plants, animals and productive land that make this country liveable. As sellers on Gate + Gather, we take those settings seriously — a single pest plant or unwanted organism moving through the mail can cost the wider industry a great deal to contain. If a species is on the National Pest Plant Accord, on a regional pest management plan, or otherwise restricted under the Biosecurity Act 1993, it doesn't belong on a Gate.