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SO, WHAT MAKES A DELCADO?
Well apart from perfect soil, great rain fall and an abundance of the warm south-west Aussie sun, it takes a whole heap of work. Delcados are slow grown, spending from 12 to 16 months on the tree to develop their richer, creamier flavour.
Delcados are the result of more than 30 years of growing expertise by the Delroy family. Nothing tastes like them.
Russell Delroy and his wife Jenny planted their first avocado trees on their farm in Pemberton in 1988, starting with five hectares of avocado trees. Today the orchard has more than 340 hectares of avocado trees. That’s around 180,000 – 190,000 avocado trees!
The Delroys have spent the last eight years perfecting every step of a Delcado’s journey from Pemberton in southwest WA to plate. They have invested in cutting-edge technology to ensure they have complete control over an avocado from before it is picked, packed, ripened, stored and transported at the ideal temperature to the supermarkets. This ensures Delcados are fresher and taste better.
The whole Delroy family run the family orchard in Pemberton, including Russell and Jenny’s three children Suzie, Kathryn and Robbie (left).
Wow, you’ve scrolled down this far, You must really love your avos.
Well, let us indulge you with a deeper history of the mighty avocado in Australia.
Avocados first arrived in Australia in 1840 in seed form, and were planted in the Royal Botanic Gardens in Sydney. Further commercial imports of seed and plants continued over the next 110 years until the late 1960s when a developing Australian industry began to take shape.
Currently avocado orchards are found in Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Tasmania and of course, Western Australia. Avocados are a perennial fruit and premium Australian produce is available all year round because of the widespread and climatically diverse growing regions. The highest volume of fruit is available between March and November.
Avocados are known to have existed from as far back as 291 BC. They originally took root in the highlands of Central America and Mexico and the lowlands of Colombia in South America, where they grew wild.
This exotic fruit was first transported to Europe in the 16th century, after the Spanish conquistadors invaded Mexico and Peru. When the Aztecs discovered the unique greenish coloured fruit with a seed in the centre they dubbed it ‘ahuacatl’, which has evolved over the centuries into the word avocado.
Fascinating stuff!
