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Thai Sweet Green Mango
Mamuang Kiew Sa Wei In my current life surrounded by mangoes, I meet countless mango lovers who fell head over heels through their excursions around the globe. (I personally discovered mangoes as a little girl in Nicaragua.) The mango embodies flavors of nostalgia, awakening the feeling of those far off exotic places with every bite.…
Continue ReadingMother Nature Strikes and Unexpected “Blow” in Oaxaca
Heavy, Unexpected Winds Challenge Crop Outlook From Oaxaca Region Two days ago heavy winds swept through Oaxaca in the southern regions of Mexico centered heavily in mango production zones. Many of the early mangoes expected to be harvested for January and February have literally been ripped off the trees for several producers in the area…
Continue ReadingSweet & Fruitful Predictions for Mexican Organic Mangoes
2017 season springs into action in Oaxaca with “normalcy” The first cut of the 2017 Mexican mango season will happen sometime around the second week of January but the US market won’t get their hands on any until mid February. The projected “normalcy” that Crespo Organic reported on in late November 2016, seems to be…
Continue ReadingBehind the Season
Fickle fruit and empirical crop forecasting Behind every great season, lies a great deal of unseen work, especially in the off-season where mainly the “unpredictables” determine the outcome of the crop. In today’s world where climate change exists (it’s not a hoax) and capricious weather becomes the norm, an empirical approach to understanding agriculture is…
Continue ReadingThe Mango Pack House: A Quick Glance
Take a peek inside a Mexican mango packhouse I will never forget my first time visiting a major farm and processing center in another country. It was in Israel, and since I had heard so much about their advanced agricultural technology I was expecting something robotic and almost medicinal, glass houses and everything automated, pristine. I arrived to…
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