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Samoan sweetness
02 September 2011 | Posted by julia in All Good News, Banana lovers, Samoa
We’ve been working hard with Oxfam New Zealand and Samoa’s Women in Business Development Inc. to bring you these Organic Dried Banana Chunks. By partnering closely with Oxfam & WIBDI, a not-for-profit organisation working with over 250 small-scale farmers growing organically certified Misiluki bananas in Apia, we’ve been able to provide these Samoan farmers with a market for a product that currently has almost no economic value locally.
As well as being good for the growers, there are plenty of documented health benefits for eating organic dried banana chunks. Misiluki’s being naturally sweeter, means that nothing else needs to be added too. No preservatives, no sugar, no sweetner; just organic, naturally dried bananas.
And they taste YUM.
Launching at the Pacific Showcase (The Cloud, Queen’s Wharf) next week, you can already buy these little beauties from Ripe Deli, The Little Grocer, The Juicery, Harvest Wholefoods (Grey Lynn), Huckleberry Farms (Glen Innes) and from Sat 10th Sept at the Kokako pop-up cafe at HP Winter Garden. All for the lovely little price of around $3 per pack.
Try ‘em, do.
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Hi,
Is the video presentation that you can see when you scan the QR code available in full size online anywhere? I see it is at:
http://www.ago.co.nz/grower/view/24/534
but it is tiny so it fits on a smartphone. Can you get it on youtube or something so we can see the presentation at full size? It’s such a nice little presentation with the story of banana growing in the 50’s.
Yep, will post a link on the blog for you now.
Good to see you have got this supply up and running.Now all you need to do is get a good supply of fresh Bananas from the Pacific Islands.These can be shipped ripe not green as those tasteless bits of wood comming from further afield.They may be sold as rippened but are more like yellow coloured green bananas.The market would soon shop with the better taste I’m sure. Also where better to support than our own neighbours.