And you get to eat the jakfruit too!

Dig in - best to use gloves - yummy jakfruit.

You don't need to jump off tall buildings to be adventurous.

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Photo-shoot for 'Adventurous by Nature' campaign

Our neighbours, Amy and Jasmine Davidson provided the talent, along with their dad, Pete and friend Jy. These photos will be used to promote Tropical North Queensland as an adventurous destination.

Breeding tiny jakfruit

This wheelbarrow tells a long story that has taken more than 6 years to unfold. Manipulating fruit characteristics is not something that happens overnight. Fruit growers need patience. 

Digby  is proudly holding a wheelbarrow full of tiny ripe jakfruit weighing 1-2 kg. Most jakfruit we grow on the farm are big - over 10 kgs and sometimes up to 40 kgs. Six years ago we found a baby jakfruit and decided that this would have much more marketing potential - nobody wants to buy a 40 kg fruit - they will never eat it all. Unless of course you grew up with it in Sri Lanka or Malaysia. We want to be able to sell our jakfruit to our fruit tasters - this is the fruit that we think will work.

Now we are saving the seeds to grow more small trees and as our old jakfruit trees reach senescence, they will be replaced with trees growing tiny jakfruit. Will I live that long? Who knows!

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Jakfruit Season nearly here

 

First jakfruit has been picked - just a small one! It will probably take at least a week to ripen. A wonderful taste of banana flavoured bubblegum! And if you love the 'I have exotic tastes' t-shirt, we now have them for sale.

New Video - Tasting Jakfruit

New video - What's on the tasting today?