Recently, a news piece came through with the horrifying statistic that 7% of adults in the US believe chocolate milk comes directly from cows. But, is it really such a surprising statistic when you ask yourself what do you really know about the food on your table? Most of us walk into the supermarket and buy our food from nicely stacked shelves, without thinking much about how it was grown. Most of us know what an apple orchard looks like, but how about a pineapple farm, a cashew nut farm, or even a sugarcane farm? I was lucky enough recently to speak at the New Zealand Horticulture conference where Otago orchardists, Stephen Darling, of Ettrick, and Gary Bennetts, of Roxburgh, were awarded lifetime memberships (ODT, 20.7.17).

Source: Otago Daily Times July 25, 2017 18:33 UTC