For Robert Zulch and son, Fourie what it takes to be the best grower on their farm Wakkerstroom in Ceres’ Witzenberg Valley is the following recipe: Produce the fruit the market wants, in the best quality and in the right size. In November 2020 Wakkerstroom was awarded a number of trophies by ...

As the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing knows that apples and pears can be enjoyed as thoroughly as a fresh snack right from the fridge or sliced, cooked or baked into delicious dishes. With this in mind, Tru-Cape has developed its own recipes, as ...

Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, is wholly owned by the growers from Ceres Fruit Growers and Two-a-Day in Grabouw. Well over half of all the apples and pears produced in South Africa are grown on Tru-Cape farms.  When the business began in ...

The Witte Wijnappel While we don’t know for how many years the Witte Wijn apple, the first ever apple variety picked in the Cape in 1662, was lost, estimates by Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing’s sleuths suggest it may have been  hundreds of years. Since returning the Witte Wijn apple to The ...

From fairytales to great works of art, the perfect red apple is a placeholder for a wide range of human emotions. With its recent improvements the Fuji variety is set to continue its rise. Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears sold more than 570 000 ...

No Christmas trifle is complete without it and for Tru-Cape Fruit Marketing, the largest exporter of South African apples and pears, the cherry on the top is an expected 2020 bumper cherry crop. After 2019’s disappointing season in cherry volume albeit a very high value ...

Recent research from Western Australia’s (WA) Edith Cowan University has found that polyphenols, a compound found in apples and especially in the apple’s skin, are associated with a decreased risk of heart disease, diabetes and cancer. While the study said that Ozzie-bred Pink Lady® apples had ...

Sometimes knowing the right lingo can make you sound like an industry insider. Just like if you are on a game drive and the ranger says over the radio they’ve spotted an “Indlovo”, those in the know will expect to see an elephant pretty soon. As the largest exporter of South African apples and ...

New Tru-Cape director Dimitri Jacobs The Grabouw apple industry runs deep in Dimitri Jacobs’ blood although, growing up, he tried hard to escape it. Both his parents were farm workers, his father at Applethwaite and his mother at Appletiser. “My parents were strict and from an early age I ...

A rose by any other name is still a rose, as Shakespeare says. But, did you know, that an apple is a rose too? Well, in the same way that almonds, apricots, peaches and cherries are all part of the rose family. Or, that eating the whole apple, including the apple peel which contains much of the ...