Harvesting avocados

[Devany]

Ken Love was featured in an article on Avocados in the Hawiian Airlines in flight magazine, October I think. When we were placing our fruit tree order at Plant it Hawaii, we bought some Avocado trees for our new house. The owner of the nursery had differing opinons on the best Avos for our area. She had seen the article too. His work is certainly beneficial to the consumer and especially to educating grocers. It never fails to amaze me when I am in a grocery store in and see so many imported produce items, when the local fruits and veggies are fresher, less expensive and far more abundant.

After reading Ken's article, I started looking for different varieties of avocados at various farmer's markets. One day I bought five different kinds at Waimea Farmer's Market. None of the people I bought them from knew the variety they were selling, they just assured me that they were good. And all were delicious. They were differing shapes and sizes, one the size of grapefruits had the most amazing buttery taste and was very smooth.

Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

Devany Vickery-Davidson
East Bay Potters
www.eastbaypotters.com