Cherry Sorters

Another Week at the Office...

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February 18th 2008
Well, we are now wrapping up our five weeks at Denny's Orchard before moving on from our Alex and Clyde homes. To share more about what we actually do there, we took the camera in for a closer look at how cherries and pears are processed. Below you can see the process a cherry goes through in the packing plant - from being sorted (graded, stems separated) then down the cleansing 'waterslides' be ... read more

Oceania » New Zealand » South Island » Central Otago

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The Polynesian Maori reached New Zealand in about A.D. 800. In 1840, their chieftains entered into a compact with Britain, the Treaty of Waitangi, in which they ceded sovereignty to Queen Victoria while retaining territorial rights. In that same year... ... read more