There are never enough daylight hours at the moment. We are flat out harvesting blueberries, carrots, onions and potatoes. Pumpkin harvest starts this weekend, and the Watties Harvesters have been in this week to harvest the sweetcorn, much to our boys delight as they love to see the big Combine Harvester in action.
The weather is playing havoc at the moment with the blueberry harvest. Blueberries like grapes do not like rain, as splitting can occur. The rain can also make it difficult to harvest the onions as they need to be very dry before being picked up. On the bright side all the crops are looking and tasting great.
Don’t forget to enter our competition; the month of March is your last opportunity.

Our organic blueberry harvest is in full swing. If you are interested in casual seasonal work harvesting or packing blueberries please take a look at our work page and contact us. Come and work in the sunny Hawke’s Bay.

You may have noticed a slight difference in our carrot bags. Just before Christmas we released our new carrot packaging. We are very excited now to be able to offer you a degradable carrot bag. They are still made of plastic; however they have an additive in them that allows the plastic to break down through oxidation into small fragments, which then decompose into the natural elements of carbon dioxide, water, biomass, and minerals.
Please have a look at this website if you want to find out more www.epi-global.com
In an ideal world we would prefer to not be using any plastics. However in order to maintain the integrity of our products we need to prepack for many of the retail stores we supply. We do not want our organic produce mixed up with conventional produce. We need to be pre packed and bar coded, so our produce is available to as many consumers as possible, and ensures us traceability.
You will also see the packaging design has changed slightly, and you can now see our yummy organic carrots in the bag more clearly. We would love to hear your feedback.

Scott and I would like to take this opportunity to say a very big thank you to our loyal “true earth” customers. We genuinely appreciate your continued support.

Have a safe and happy organic Christmas. Let’s toast being clean, green and pure!

We are now harvesting organic blueberries and onions. This is so exciting for us. An early start for the onions is going well due to the hot fine days. We have had our first harvest off our young highbush blueberry plants. For Kevin and his blueberry team, this is extremely rewarding, as blueberry plants take at least three years before you can get a crop off them.
We have had a small amount of rain, not enough to stop irrigating, but the dust is dampened and everything feels fresher for a while. All the crops are growing so well.
We have big crews of hardy souls weeding, imagine weeding onions on a 31 degree day. Not an easy job. Some days we would easily have over 40 people working away to bring you the delicious “true earth” vegetables and berryfruit.

Well the light drizzle yesterday really just dampened the dust. Not that we are complaining anything is better than nothing. The crops are still growing with the aid of busy staff and irrigators. Pumpkins, sweetcorn, wheat are all looking great.
Organic onions are not far away from the first harvest. All going well you will have some with your Christmas meal. Organic blueberries are not far away either, you should start to see our delicious blueberries in your favourite organic produce shop very soon!
We really can’t keep up with the demand for our organic carrots at the moment. We did plan to have more, but sadly through the winter the carrots were flooded not long after planting. This rotted a percentage of the seed. We are doing our best I promise!
Do try our new season Nadine potatoes. They are so delicious lightly boiled with all the other delicious spring vegetables.

Well it is that time of the year where we have started harvesting our new season organic carrots and potatoes.

To celebrate this we are running a very exciting competition. You could win a years supply of seasonal “true earth” produce. It is so easy just click on the link and be in to win.

Wow Hawkes Bay has started to dry out again. We are busy irrigating to keep our crops growing as lovely hot days sap all the moisture. Our onions are growing well with an estimated harvest time of mid December. We just finished planting our sweetcorn last weekend, and the pumpkins have just broken the surface.

Weeding is a big job at this time of the year as well. As for the blueberries it looks like another bumper crop.

It is such an exciting time watching the growth of all these new season crops.

Wow it is so exciting. Two of our loyal restaurant customers have had great success in the HB Signature Dish Awards.
On Tuesday the 28th October the winners of the HB Signature Regional Dish were announced at the awards ceremony in front of a crowd of 180 hospitality and food industry people at the stunning HB Opera House. A mystery panel of local and out of town judges had the arduous task of tasting all of the dishes and deciding the winners.
There were two categories
Winner of the Formal category was Church Road Winery
With their entry of: Hawke’s Bay natural lamb loin marinated in Village Press lemon olive oil served on an eggplant ragout, with ‘True Earth’ Agria organic potato gnocchi, savoy cabbage, braised lamb and a roasted red pepper emulsion.
Head Chef Malcolm Redmond has been our most loyal restaurant customer in Hawke’s Bay. Congratulations to Malcolm and his team at Church Rd. We really appreciate your loyalty.
Runner Up of the Casual category was Westshore Inn.
With their entry of: Pan roasted HB Fish Fillets on ‘True Earth’ organic potatoes with fennel and lemon relish.
Head Chef Marty Clarkson has just returned from an eight year stint in Sydney restaurants. Marty is passionate about using local fresh produce and is inspired by the incredible quality and taste of organic produce.
We are so proud to be associated with such dynamic restaurants.