The harvest
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Everything here was grown at Bellberry. What’s fresh depends entirely on what’s ripe today, so that part of the page changes through the year. The freeze-dried range is here whatever the month.
Picking now
Freeze dried — all year round
Picked at the peak of the season and freeze dried here on the orchard, so it keeps for months. This is the part of the shop that doesn’t close over winter.
Freeze dried black raspberries
Deep and almost winey. The shortest season we grow.
Freeze dried feijoa
That unmistakable feijoa perfume, dried to a crisp.
Freeze Dried Raspberries - Red
Freeze dried red raspberries
Freeze dried red kiwiberries
The red ones — the only kiwiberry we think is worth drying.
Freeze dried white peaches
Heritage white peaches, picked ripe.
Freeze Dried White Raspberries
Pale, honeyed, and the smallest crop we grow.
Freeze dried vanilla ice cream
Real vanilla ice cream, freeze dried. Crunchy, melts on the tongue, needs no freezer.
Freeze dried chocolate ice cream
The chocolate one. Same trick, deeper flavour — and it keeps in a cupboard.
The rest of the year
Out of season today. Open any of them to join the list for when they come back.
Blueberries
Picked in the cool of the morning, sent the same week.
Red raspberries
Pickup only. They don't survive being posted.
Pickup only — too fragile to courier
White raspberries
Pale, sweeter than the reds, and gone in a few weeks. Pickup only.
Pickup only — too fragile to courier
Black raspberries
Deep, almost winey. The shortest season we grow. Pickup only.
Pickup only — too fragile to courier
White heritage peaches
An old white-fleshed variety, picked ripe. Pickup only.
Pickup only — too fragile to courier
Kiwiberries
Grape-sized, smooth-skinned, eaten whole. The reason this orchard exists.
Feijoas
Windfall-picked and sent within a day or two. Certified organic.
Wondering when something’s due? See the whole season calendar.