Australian Red Dates

For our Confinement Care clinic, we searched high and low for farmers sells Australian red dates. It was quite tricky as we do not know any wholesaler contacts. Therefore we went directly to the farmers! 

We found two major red dates growers in Australia with several smaller ones. We ordered some to try and we were so surprise by its sweetness and freshness! Farmer Bernie is really friendly and told us many things about his farm and his red dates. Apparently, there are many variety of red dates! (Wow)

Australians called red dates Jujube, and he grows four varieties in his farm. And they are ORGANIC too! No wonder it is so sweet!

I packed them up in the glass jars. Look at how big they are!!

This is really great news for us. We want to sell products that are locally sourced as much as possible. It was really a bonus that it was organically grown too. It sounds strange I know, but I rather get Australian grown red dates than the Chinese grown ones.Now a days, I tend not to get things from China, because of poor regulations and monitoring of pesticides, fertilizers and heavy metal content. Who knows how long ago the dates are harvested too! (Just like how the apples you get in supermarket these days were picked like a year ago at least) 

The dates that I can get in Asian shops are mostly dried and rock hard, while the ones we got from Bernie was only harvested last year! And they are currently harvesting this year's crops. Will be putting my order in to get them soon. 

Because they are so massive in size, I only need to use 3 when making soup/tea. I threw some in when I make chicken soup one night, and it tasted fantastic! (natural sweetness in soup!)

Let me know if anyone is interested in getting Australian organic red dates! 

kcan