Impact
What the farm puts back
A grove employs people, uses water and shapes the land around it for decades. These are the numbers we hold ourselves to, and the programmes behind them.
By the numbers
The figures we hold ourselves to
Verified annually and available to buyers, certifiers and lenders on request.
40+
People employed year-round
Rather than hired at harvest and dropped
62%
Of our crew are women
Across grove, packhouse and admin roles
18
Outgrower farms supported
Supplied with seedlings, inputs and offtake
31,000
Seedlings supplied to other growers
Raised in our own nursery
40%
Less water per tonne
Since converting the blocks to drip
0
Tonnes sent to landfill
Out-grade fruit goes to juicing or feed
Figures shown are placeholders pending verification with the farm. See CONTENT-CHECKLIST.md before publishing.
How we do it
Four commitments, not four slogans
Each of these costs the farm something. That is how we know they are real rather than decorative.
Year-round work, not seasonal churn
Harvest farming tends to hire in bulk and let people go the moment the last crate is loaded. We keep our crews on through the quiet months, on pruning, nursery and packhouse work.
- Permanent contracts for the grove and packhouse teams
- Paid training in pruning, grafting and grading
- Promotion from crew to supervisor as the farm grows
Lifting the growers around us
A single farm cannot attract a serious buyer to a region. A cluster of farms that all grade to the same standard can. So we supply neighbouring growers with seedlings, advice and a guaranteed buyer.
- Seedlings and inputs supplied against harvest, not cash up front
- Free site and soil assessment before anyone plants
- Their fruit sold through the same channel as our own
Water is the constraint, so we treat it as one
Citrus is thirsty and the dry season is getting longer. Converting every producing block to drip cost us a season of margin and cut our water per tonne by roughly two fifths.
- Drip irrigation across all producing blocks
- On-site borehole and reservoir storage to ride out dry spells
- Soil moisture checked before irrigating, not on a fixed timer
Farming the same land in thirty years
A grove that is pushed hard pays for it three seasons later. We test and rest our blocks, and we would rather take a smaller crop than mine the soil for one good year.
- Soil tested each season before any fertigation programme is set
- Integrated pest management instead of calendar spraying
- Out-grade fruit and prunings composted back into the blocks
In depth
Impact stories
The longer version of what each commitment actually cost, and what it returned.
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