{"id":745,"date":"2022-09-30T10:19:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T00:19:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/?p=745"},"modified":"2023-02-20T12:34:25","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T01:34:25","slug":"introduction-to-picking-at-kagome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/introduction-to-picking-at-kagome\/","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to picking - Kagome pick-a-box day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Back, from left) Stuart McColl, Sandy Georgaras, Gus Tall, and Chris Taylor; (front) Harvey and Ashlin McColl. Photo by Laura Green<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.riverineherald.com.au\/laura-green\/\">Laura Green<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jan 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">More than 170 people visited the Kagome pick-a-box day at Moonee Valley Farm at the weekend, where the NSW Rural Fire Service also held an information stall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The farm, on Avalon Rd off Birganbigil Rd (toward Mayrung) was brimming with the vine-ripened tomatoes. Despite it being the first event Kagome has held in the Deniliquin area, the numbers showcased its popularity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018\u2018It\u2019s a really good turnout \u2014 every year we do this near Echuca but this is the first time we\u2019ve brought it to Deni,\u2019\u2019 executive assistant for field operations Sandy Geargoras said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ms Georgaras said the event was a helpful way to familiar residents near and far of what a tomato farm is truly like.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cOften people see it out the window of their car, but they\u2019re not familiar with it,\u2019\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Every harvest season, between February to mid-April, Kagome processes 200,000 tonnes of tomatoes across its farms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The variety at Moonee Valley Farm, similar to Roma tomatoes and known as 3402, is perfect for making into tomato sauces, chutneys, and relishes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Guests were charged $10 per box, with funds raised being donated to the Deniliquin Health Service, with Kagome matching the amount raised.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-751\" src=\"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/intro2-900x600-1.jpg\" alt=\"intro-to-picking-tomatoes\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/intro2-900x600-1.jpg 900w, https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/intro2-900x600-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/intro2-900x600-1-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Austin Worthing and NSW RFS Mid Murray operations officer Gerard James in a firetruck at Moonee Valley Farm. Photo by Laura Green<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Back, from left) Stuart McColl, Sandy Georgaras, Gus Tall, and Chris Taylor; (front) Harvey and Ashlin McColl. Photo by Laura Green By Laura Green Jan 25, 2022 &nbsp; More than 170 people visited the Kagome pick-a-box day at Moonee Valley Farm at the weekend, where the NSW Rural Fire Service also held an information stall. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":748,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=745"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":853,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/745\/revisions\/853"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kagome.com.au\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}