Way back when in December 2015 Jered & Jodi set off from Auckland to a small town in Central Otago, Roxburgh. “You did what? Where?” Yes, we purchased a small piece of Aotearoa with a well established orchard full of cherries, apricots, peaches, plums and nectarines - a whopping 10 acres!
It was supposed to be a lifestyle move, something to keep us busy enough during peak seasons and still have time for Jodi to work elsewhere and Jered to hit the slopes in Winter. However it seemed the opposite effect took place and Jered caught something you can never quite shake off… The orchardist bug, and with that, we successfully made it through our first two seasons.
Jered found himself working a brief stint at the neighbouring Fairview Orchard, the role was supposed to be a short-term thing, planning and executing the spray programme while doing odd jobs around the place. Then one thing lead to another and hello you are now proud owners of 18 ½ hectares (or 45 acres) of stonefruit and pipfruit planted out on the historic Fairview Orchard, which included a well established roadside fruit stall, the old villa originally built in 1986 and multiple sheds...