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First of all, we wish you a happy 2022!
First of all, we wish you a happy 2022!
On the threshold of the new year, we bid a sad farewell to Archbishop Desmond Tutu, a source of inspiration and friend of Eosta. In addition to being a peace-maker and Nobel laureate, Tutu was also a great advocate of environmental protection and sustainable agriculture. In 2014, Tutu received a "Soilmate" from Volkert Engelsman, as part of the Eosta campaign Save Our Soils, which worked to preserve soils.
Eosta worked together with, among others, the Desmond Tutu Peace Centre in Cape Town on projects in townships such as Langa, Nyanga and Ocean View. The South-African rapper Earl Mentor, who was a gang leader in his youth, founded a community center with support of Eosta and is now the director of PeaceJam South Africa and a leader in the Desmond Tutu youth center. In addition, Eosta has initiated major composting projects in South Africa and is helping South African fruit growers convert to organic farming.
In 2022, Eosta will continue to propagate Tutu's ideas: building a sustainable and harmonious society with a sustainable food supply. In South Africa the upcoming grape season is full of promise. We are looking forward to products from new converters and suppliers. For example, the first organic grapes (with pips) from Peru have arrived, of the Red Globe variety. You can read more about this here.
"Do your little bit of good where you are; it's those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world" - Desmond Tutu
The overseas grape season starts in mid-December, but planning begins now. Demand for organic grapes remains strong and our growers need early visibility on the volumes they can reserve for fixed programmes. By aligning programmes in advance, we can secure organic volumes more effectively and are also in a stronger position to offer competitive pricing.
Along the Orange River in South Africa’s Northern Cape lies Carpe Diem, a long-standing and trusted partner for our organic grapes. Owner Gog van der Colff took over the family business in 2000 and made the deliberate decision to switch to organic farming in 2006. What began as a step that not everyone was initially convinced by has developed into a progressive organic farm producing grapes, pecans and raisins.
El Niño is clearly affecting the South American mango season this year. Higher temperatures and unusual rainfall patterns are disrupting flowering, making availability and harvest timing less predictable.
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