NZFGA - Preferred Suppliers

NZ Feijoa Growers Association members are proud of the product they grow and market. The Association is this year starting a progrgramme which identifies growers who have agreed to produce their fruit to the highest quality level.

This level has been set out in the NZFGA grade standards and includes quality controlled touch picking, handling and grading standards, storage and transport standards. Fruit from these growers will therefore arrive in the marketer at this standard. from there it is the marketer's and the retailer's responsibility to store and handle the fruit with utmost care.

If fruit supplied to you arrives in damaged condition, please in the first instant contact the marketer you purchased the fruit from and in the second instant the grower providing you with their fruit.

For storage and handling guides for the retailer and wholesaler please click here

The growers who have signed the NZFGA supply agreement which assures their product to be of the highest quality are listed below, with the relevant standards wto which they are certified, or comply.

Name:	Trading as:	NZFGA Picking Stds:	Grower No:	NZ GAP:	Grow Safe:	Certified Organic:	Spray Diary Kept	Fruit Chilled:
David Bloor	Stonehaven Resources Ltd	Yes	4779 CO1	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Neville Brook	Brook Farm	Yes	02544	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Mick Birkitt	Longleaf Orchard	Yes		No	No	No	No	No
Peter F Gulik	Peter F Gulik	Yes	2394	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Colin Honeyfield	Honeyfield Holdings	Yes	2120	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Jessops	Grovelea	Yes	0469	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Tony Kendall	Kendall Family Trust	Yes	E332	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Joanne Kiddie		Yes	F172	No	No	No	No	No
Wendy Noble	KT and WM Noble	Yes	J777		Yes	No	No	No
Graeme Philip	Mandeville Orchards	Yes	QA2059	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes
Craig Reynolds	Forest Park 2005 Ltd	Yes	02485	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Christine Robinson	Whangamata Landscaping Services	Yes		No	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes
Brian Scragg	Uluru Farm	Yes	1846	No	No	Yes	No	Yes
Gary and Catherine Sigley	Sigley Orchards Ltd	Yes		Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No
Ross and Shirley Uren	Uren Company	Yes		No	Yes	No	No	Yes

Glossary of terms

Grower number as allocated by NZ GAP or Organic Certification authorities (see below)

NZFGA picking standards are the Associations picking standards - viewable here

NZ GAP is a quality assurance programme that provides a traceable, accountable system from crop to customer,

Grow safe The NZ Agrichemical Education Trust's training programme which follows principles of safe, responsible and effective agrichemical application,

Organic certified means the grower is certified by Agriquality NZ, Bio-Gro NZ, or The Bio Dynamic Farming and Gardening Association,

Spray diaries means the grower keeps a full and accurate diary of all sprays which are applied to their feijoa crop,

Pesticides free means no pesticides used on fruit or trees (sprays can be used to keep weeds down and trees can be sprayed with micro nutrients when they are not in fruit),

Fruit chilled means fruit is chilled to 4�C within 8 hours of picking.