And it has all been possible thanks to the generous Maitland community who responded to a call for help.

Slow Food Hunter Valley needed to raise $1000 to buy the boxes and ended up with $150 more their target.

"We put out a call for members of the community to donate to buy a box of mangoes for a farmer," Earth Market Maitland chairwoman Amorelle Dempster said.

"After everything these farmers have been through this year it will be lovely for them to receive a box of mangoes."

More than 100 boxes of mangoes arrived in The Levee on Thursday after a mega rescue from a small farm in north Queensland. Once the boxes destined for Gundy were removed there were more than 1000 mangoes in 69 boxes for the community to buy.

Every sale supported Townsville growers Helen and Bruce Hill, who had been unable to find a buyer for their fruit. Their market is overflowing with ripe mangoes, and even though these ones were biodynamic, nobody wanted them.

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The mangoes would have been destined for fertiliser if Slow Food volunteers had not stepped in and made it possible to bring them to Maitland.

The fruit flew off the tables.

"The farmers had to pick them and take them to their depot, then the boxes had to come to Sydney and the agent in Flemington received them and then the agents in Newcastle had to approve it," Ms Dempster said.

"Peter Garrett has been very good to us and approved the mangoes three years in a row. He made sure a carrier was contracted to go down to pick them up in Sydney and bring them here."