The avocado season is over at Bee Heaven Farm. The last of the big, plump Donnie avocados got picked weeks ago. The lull between picking fruit and and blooming season (usually around January) brings off-season maintenance. Almost every year the tree trimmer comes to cut back all the avocado trees. Call it their summertime haircut, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘avocados’
A little off the sides and top
Posted in farm, fruits, photo, tagged avocados, Bee Heaven Farm, Margie Pikarsky on October 3, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Redland fruit arrives in Central Florida
Posted in fruits, location, market, photo, tagged avocados, Bee Heaven Farm, Health and Happiness Farm, mamey, Whole Foods on July 18, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Last week I was up in Sanford visiting with friends Kattia, Chris and Holden. Kattia knows I’m a big fan of Whole Foods, and took me to visit the store at Winter Park. The first thing I saw when I walked in through the front door was a heap of Florida avocados. They looked suspiciously [...]
Packing avocados
Posted in comic, farm, fruits, tagged avocados, Murray Bass, Wyndham Organics on November 6, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Organic avocado grower Murry Bass of Wyndham Organics was packing avocados in the Bee Heaven Farm barn for most of the summer. His fruit was selling under the Uncle Matt’s brand at Whole Foods. Although Murray is done packing his avo’s, there are still some late varieties getting picked and coming to stores. I made [...]
Avocado bliss
Posted in food, fruits, market, photo, tagged avocados, Bee Heaven Farm, Whole Foods on July 31, 2010 |
The time has come to pick avocados. Last week Farmer Margie mustered her crew of mostly volunteers and they went through the grove to gather the first of the season. Thirty bushels of certified organic Donnie avocados went straight to the area Whole Foods warehouse, and I’m told that the fruit just flew out of [...]
Beating the beetle
Posted in farm, fruits, location, media, tagged avocados, laurel wilt, redbay ambrosia beetle, UF/IFAS on December 26, 2009 |
This summer, there was great concern among commercial avocado growers in Redland (including Bee Heaven Farm) about the apparent discovery of the redbay ambrosia beetle, which rapidly kills avocado trees, and has been located in North and Central Florida. At least one tree in Redland was suspected of infestation and was burned. UF/IFAS held a workshop [...]
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