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Carrots

We can always celebrate carrots! While they are in the peak of their season when they are the freshest and most flavourful. Thanks to that carrot-eating icon, Bugs Bunny, generations of children have grown up knowing that carrots are good for your health. Packed with health-promoting beta carotene, they promote good vision, especially night vision, […]

Eve Apples

The Eve Apple is a new apple on the Australian market, easily identified by its bright red skin. What makes the Eve apple so unique is its delicate balance of flavours which makes Eve the perfect eating apple and a favourite with the whole family. The firmness and superb white flesh of Eve also make […]

Sundowner Apples

Sundowner is very much a warm-climate apple.  That means it needs long hot summers to ripen, but it also has a low-chill requirement so it can tolerate winters where temperatures are rarely below freezing.  (Apples originated in mountainous central Asia and need a period of very cold weather each winter as part of their annual […]

Jazz Apples

Launched in Australia April 2009, Jazz Apples are the super fruit product with the best qualities from its parent varieties, Gala and Braeburn. Blushing a red/pink colour, Jazz Apples provide crunchiness on the outside and an unforgettable flavour combination of tangy and sweet on the inside. As a seasonal variety, Jazz™ Apple lovers can taste the […]

Fuji Apples

Fuji is surely one of the more attractive modern apple varieties. Its main characteristic is the lovely pink speckled flush over a yellow-green background. It is also crisp and juicy, with dull white flesh which snaps cleanly. The flavor is predominantly sweet, very refreshing.

Red Delicious Apples

This one’s a classic – America’s favourite snacking apple. The heart-shaped fruit is bright red and sometimes striped. Crunchy with a mildly sweet flavour, Reds are also great in salads.

Golden Delicious Apples

Golden Delicious has a bright yellow to golden skin colour, sometimes with a pink tinge. It is at its best when the skin turns from green to gold. It is excellent as an eating apple, with its crisp, creamy, white flesh, which is sweet, tasty and juicy. Golden Delicious originated in 1912 in West Virginia, USA.Being a […]

Royal Gala Apple

Royal Gala are characterised by a blush of pink of the skin, the colour varies from yellow to almost orange with deep orange stripes. Gala is a round sweet apple that fits nicely into a child’s hand. It is dense, sweet, aromatic and juicy with a white flesh. Gala apples can be eaten fresh, included in salads […]

Granny Smith Apples

Granny Smith is one of the best cooking apples with a sensational tart, tangy flavour. When fully mature the sweetness level of this popular apple increases. This Australian native was discovered in 1868 as a chance seedling by “Granny” Anne Smith of Ryde, New South Wales. One parent might have been a French Crab Apple. Grannys […]

Silverbeet Rainbow

Basically a multi-coloured relative of beetroot and silverbeet, this plant is one of the easiest to grow in the garden and you wont have to force yourself to drink wheatgrass juice, this plant is packed with chlorophyll! Just be sure to steam or cook as the cellular structure and oxalates need a little breaking down […]

Mexican Mangoes

Mexican mangoes for Australian import are sweet and colourful. Mangoes are available in a range of sizes and varieties. They are grown in tropical climates and contain high levels of Vitamins A and C.Their buttery flesh is not fibrous, and they have a thin pit. Their flesh is a deep yellow and high in sugar and […]

Kale Cavolo Nero

Kale is a wonderful crop for the winter vegetable garden. The flavour and texture improves once the frosts have started in early winter releasing it’s sugars. Kale is a fantastic winter ‘superfood’. Kale has upright smoky green-black leaves, crinkled and handsome like a tall Savoy cabbage. It’s very popular for autumn and winter cooking. Perfect, finely […]

Blood Oranges

This crimson-red pigment so adored in the blood orange comes from the blood oranges unique ability to produce Anthocyanins which is extremely rare for Citrus fruits.  Anthocyanin, most commonly found in berries such as the blueberry, flowering plants and red wine (derived from red grapes) is one of the most powerful phyto-chemicals known in the […]