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Fresh Produce Update

Farmer's Gate Admin

Welcome to this week’s market update, where you can find information on pricing and availability of our wholes fruit & vegetable lines. The Framer’s gate are pleased to offer free wholesale produce delivery to the Sunshine Coast region seven days a week.

Fruit Update:

We are really moving into autumn this week, peaches (particularly yellow varieties) and nectarines are now virtually over. So, its plums, grapes, apples and pears for the fruit bowl.

  • In apples, we have a great offer on small and large Gala apples
  • With grapes we have red and green in stock – great eating
  • WBC pears in stock, the new season Packhams will take a while to ripen, so buy a few days ahead and leave them out of the fridge
  • Seedless melon has really come good with the weather
  • Strawberries are eating well, but at this stage of the crop the only cheap fruit tends to be the smaller fruit
  • Autumn raspberries are really good
  • Some stores are starting Hass avocados, however greenskin Shepards are still the most reliable and tasty fruit.

Vegie Update

It’s still a very firm market for most vegetables. Lebanese cucumbers, continental cucumbers, broccoli and broccolini are good supply and reasonably priced

  • Butternut pumpkin is eating very well
  • Corn has really come good in both quality and price
  • Okra and sweet potato are well supplied

All the herbs which suffered with intense heat have now come good, so we have plenty of top-quality coriander, dill and continental parsley again!


Fresh Produce Update

Farmer's Gate Admin
Once again the warm weather has impacted several of our supply lines this week. Below is the latest fresh produce update to assist with your wholesale delivery needs.

 

Product Alert

Seedless watermelon is short and up in price
Cherry tomatoes have jumped in price due to the high demand and shortage in tomatoes
Cauliflowers jumped up again in price due to extreme heat
Dill is in extremely short supply – we couldn’t buy any in today

 

Fruit and Vegetable Seasonality
FRUIT
Apples Autumn
Bananas Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Blackberries Summer
Blueberries Summer
cherries Summer
Figs Autumn
Grapefruit Spring winter
Grapes Summer Autumn
Kiwi Fruit Autumn Winter
Lemons Spring Autumn Winter
Mandarins Winter
Melon Rockmelon Summer
Melon Honeydew Summer
Watermelon Summer Autumn
Nectarines Summer Autumn
Oranges Valencia Summer
Oranges Navel Spring Winter
Peaches Summer Autumn
Pears Autumn
plums Summer Autumn
Raspberries Summer
Strawberries Summer
VEGETABLES
Asparagus Spring Summer Autumn
Beans – quality and price can jump. Summer Autumn
Bean sprouts Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Beetroot Spring Summer Autumn
Broccoli Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Brussels sprouts Spring Winter
Cabbage Spring Summer Autumn
Capsicum – price is up and down due to heat wave and crop damage Summer
 Carrots Summer Autumn Winter
Cauliflower- short supply and expensive  

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Winter
Celery Summer
Chillies Summer
Cucumbers Summer Autumn
Egg fruit Summer Autumn
Fennel Spring Winter
Leeks Spring Summer
Lettuce Summer Autumn
Mushrooms Spring Summer Autumn Winter
Peas Spring
Potatoes Autumn Winter
Pumpkins Summer Autumn
Rhubarb Spring Summer
Silver beet Spring Winter
Snow Peas Summer Autumn
Spring Onion Summer Autumn
Sweet corn Summer Autumn
Tomatoes – short supply and expensive Summer Autumn
 Turnips Summer Autumn
Zucchini Summer Autumn

Fresh Produce Update

Farmer's Gate Admin

It’s been another week of crazy weather around the country which has impacted a number of our fresh produce lines. Below is our latest fruit and veg delivery update to assist with your wholesale produce order.

CAUTION: Product Alert
The warmer weather has had an impact on some of our lines such as celery, caulies, tomatoes, snow peas to name a few.
The Pink Lady apple season has come to an end, we will be switching to new season galas next week; we are anticipating some respite in price over the next few weeks but not just yet.
Some herbs currently are in short supply due to the warmer weather.
Tomatoes are still very high price and still no answer when this will change. We are trying our best to buy cheapest and quality in.

  • AVOCADOS: The Hass Avocados season is coming to an end, and we will start to see the Shepard variety coming into the market. While Hass will still be available the Shepard’s will be much better value for money
  • STONEFRUIT: An abundance of good quality, well priced stone fruit is available now
  • APPLES/ PEARS: With the start of the new season Gala apples, we will see the Pink Lady season finish. As we get further into March supply will improve on both apples and pears which should see prices drop on both
  • GRAPES: Grapes have really started to pick up in supply. With the warmer weather we will see an abundance of good quality red & white grapes on the market
  • STRAWBERRIES: Supply on this line is still very short with most of our fruit coming out of Victoria at present. This has caused a considerable jump in price for all Strawberries
  • CAPSICUM: Our local season has yet to get into full swing and we are having to import capsicum from South Australia to fill demand. Prices will rise especially on red and yellow
  • HERBS: The recent hot weather conditions always affects supply of soft herbs. Herbs such as Chervil, Dill and Fennel tend to be hit the hardest and supply on these lines maybe sporadic.

The Farmer’s Gate provides free delivery of wholesale fruit and veg throughout the Sunshine Coast, if you are interested in knowing more please check out our Contact Us page