Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Kiwifruit (Actinidia deliciosa)

What a relief we feel to have harvested our Kiwifruit crop before the seasonal storms began.


The charming Vanuatu pickers arrive in mini buses and quickly strip the vines of ‘Hairy Berries’. The firm fruit gets placed in bins then whisked off to the packhouse. Our fruit was graded as a superior, premium, sweet fruit so it will be sent to Japan and Korea for consumption.


It is a pity the fruit is not able to be completely soft and vine ripened after a few frosts zap up the sugar content and the flesh turns emerald green and truly becomes deliciosa.

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