Hello world! Our citrus-Corsican so delicious that we send this baby last word very warm.
Lacking vitamins, wish Aitons that contract back soon.
Hello, V ere came the crate subscription end. This will only last for grapefruit all groups. The grapefruit harvest will continue for a while. Depending on the pace of our sales, we finish late June or July. We decided upon the establishment of the first subscriptions to not go beyond May because some years the Mediterranean fruit fly emerges and begins cycle from mid-June. We have difficulties to control and the fruit it pic does not keep. He estab it unthinkable for us to send a crate destined for consumption for a month knowing in advance that the probability is high that hand is discarded. All other fruits are now grown, but the last variety avocado (Nabal), any small production that we do not - or not? - Waived pick but whose growth and maturity will have at least one month lag that the lead in the month of June if it finishes work properly. This season has been quite an experience for us all. A big thank you to all returns and messages we have been indirectly by group leaders or by mail. Even remotely, the system creates the link and AMAP fate producers and consumers ano nymat. Including for the workers who picked and made crates and began to share the most beautiful fruits wonky (Those escaped the dumpster and decorated the grader during the winter) between pallets AMAPiennes. All of the co-producers participated in crates except farmers hazelnuts and almonds because contracts were introduced too late in the first year. the side of the climate here has not been easy. Harvesting of clementines happened serenely with little rain, no cold ... except at the end where the orchard has been some frozen (in the standard in January) and then the first snow conditions in February and there all chained himself to a general disruption. Rain, rain and even a second passage snow in March. If the snow has remained happily anecdotal anecdotic plain, had not lived Corsica such snowfall at altitudes of 300-1000 m from the 70s. Great anguish when the second snow fell and the crops of kumquats and lemons were delayed on purpose to pick them for subscriptions. Finally, lot of fear, not too bad but we still found that the fruits of kumquats, so hardy and resistant, do not like snow.
E No cumulative rainfall is still far behind the previous winter (the record rainfall measured on the entire history of recorded weather in Corsica) and we have not yet finished counting the days Rain month May. For AMAP picking the result was a pain for small productions (lawyer, lemon, kumquat), for which we do not have regular stock and we pick up specially for dispatches programmed ... if ripe fruit and if all is well. Everything did not work smoothly. A lot of stress on our side and pick carried over monthly crate crate monthly. We are not equipped to store in the refrigerator (this which would have allowed us to anticipate). No kumquat delivered on some groups, few lemons, lawyers for others. To the orchard of little consequence if not visible at this time that flowering citrus started only in late April with 3 weeks late. However, as LOTS of Mediterranean plants citrus, almond and avocado resent to stay long roots in water. The repetition of wet winters too could eventually cause accelerated aging of weaker trees and reduce the longevity of the orchard. Positivons for now: we had feared initially after the 2008-2009 winter, the trees like us and have good restarted. It is the production that happened to you throughout this season. In principle there will be no impact on the production of citrus and avocado trees which have a exuberant flowering and fruit set naturally to unload all the berries surplus. On fruit: The lawyers did not grow normally. All grapefruit worn by lower parts of trees (poorly ventilated and overcast) are fragile because they are since month permanently damp. There was a lot of fruit drop before harvest the wettest areas, and in the worst periods, poorer life after harvest. Side bees: a beautiful spring, sunny but not too dry, is the boom in Beekeepers and their hives. The humidity of spring 2010 is a real catastrophe diseases in swarms, delayed flowering in the bush and nectar from flowers leached by repeated showers. That is the lot of busy bees but reap very little . The spring harvest will be meager and that will continue because the colonies are weakened. For a complete tour of our daily lives in this season, marketing. 26 April our sales have doubled overnight. Having eaten our brake for weeks we finally work full regime. Like every year we waited this wave, like every year we wonder how many weeks it lasts. Because it is not related to the commencement of production or an increase in consumption but at a "niche" left by our competitors. Organic grapefruit from Israel (the main source of organic grapefruit from October to spring) is finally completed this year at the same time as Spain and Italy. Remains only grapefruit Corsican and customers who prefer most low purchase price to the detriment of the nearby back to us. Obviously we organize ourselves to meet increasing orders, it takes at piecemeal find casual to see more teams picking because grapefruit production is stored on the tree. The more we collect, the faster the crop will completed and the risk behind us. Windstorms, hail and especially fly Mediterranean take some years a lion's share of production. But finally sell quickly should sell out and sell below our cost price. So we have little room to maneuver and producers often feel trapped. Soon this improvement will be completed: bio grows on globalization and also with the productions of the southern hemisphere. South Africa and Mexico will arrive with lower prices, before our harvest is complete. *******
It will obviously be difficult to meet all physically to take stock of first season but there will be balance and not forgetting anyone: neither eating nor producers or those who are mobilized for receipt and distribution that we could take with distance and that made this experience possible for their involvement . I hope that this first subscription you will have made further vitamins fun papillae and exchanges.
Sincerely,
Brigitte Etchebes
alimea@orange.fr,
site: www.alimea.fr
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