Growing ENVY™

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Across both hemispheres, over three continents, enthusiastic orchard growers take a special pride in their ENVY™ apples, which are grown with just the right amount of balance and patience.

Growing Practices

ENVY™ was born using natural plant-breeding methods, crossing between Braeburn with Royal Gala apples, we have taken full advantage of the best nature has to offer. The result is pure bliss, heightened enjoyment like no other.

A handpicked team of talented growers who simply fell in love after one bite have planted trees in prime growing locations, using world-class growing methods to deliver a superior apple from field to market.

Our growers in these quite rural communities share the same environmentally purposeful growing techniques that are the envy of our industry. Integrated Fruit Production, or IFP for short, but they would prefer to call it “common sense.” It’s a difference you can taste in our apples, no matter what end of the earth they come from.

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Apatu Farms

HAWKE’S BAY, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

“We’re excited about the enormous growth potential of ENVY™, It’s a rockstar performer for growers! ”

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MEET OUR GROWERS

Learn more about the men and women who grow envy apples.

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Peter, Brian & Colin Fulford

Omarhuri Orchards
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Mark Gores

LAKE CHELAN, WASHINGTON
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Apatu Farms

HAWKE’S BAY, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND

Apatu Farms

HAWKE’S BAY, AOTEAROA NEW ZEALAND
Since 1966, the Apatu family has been committed to growing premium, quality produce on fertile land nestled across the Heretaunga Plains, next to the Ngaruroro River in the Hawke’s Bay of New Zealand.

In 2018, after years of growing a variety of produce, the Apatu Family planted their first apple crop with a focus on harnessing the very best intellectual property (IP) varieties and utilising innovative growing systems.

They have since grown to become the largest independent grower of ENVY™ in the region.

Peter, Brian & Colin Fulford

Omarhuri Orchards

We are third generation orchardists here in Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand and we have been growing Envy for over 10 years now. We were one of the first ones to grow this beautiful fruit, and we take great pride and joy in continuing to grow Envy. Beautiful appearance with amazing sweetness and crunch, really makes this apple the best apple to eat and grow. Good fertile soil in the plains of Hawke’s Bay along with great climate and weather conditions, helps us to grow the perfect Envy to be sent around the World.

Mark Gores

LAKE CHELAN, WASHINGTON
We heard there was another apple with the same parentage as the JAZZ™, a Gala/Braeburn cross but still a totally different apple, and they had pictures of it from New Zealand. And I raised my hand as quick as I could, so to speak. I wanted to get it out into the orchards to see what it was going to perform like. Right away, you see its growth habits and it looked like it was exactly what we needed. There was nothing out there like it in terms of a firm, sweet apple. I don’t think there’s anything that touches it in terms of the density of its flesh and sweetness.