I collect everything to do with feijoas… recipes, growing information, commercial products, orchards, illustrations and design, places and people, in fact anyone and anything inspired by and dedicated to this humble little green fruit.
Acca sellowiana, a species of flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, is native to the highlands of southern Brazil, Colombia, Uruguay, and northern Argentina. Common names include feijoa, pineapple guava and guavasteen. It is an evergreen, perennial shrub or small tree, 1–7 metres (3.3–23 ft) in height, widely cultivated as a garden plant and fruiting tree. The German botanist Otto Karl Berg named feijoa after João da Silva Feijó, a Portuguese botanist born in the colony of Brazil. [thanks Wikipedia]
It’s my goal to create a centralised ‘catalogue’ of information about feijoas: to make it easier to find out about them and to spread the word. It’s a very selfish goal – there just aren’t enough feijoas in Australia and I want more! Right now my trees are trying hard to produce fruit and when they do I’ll be adding my own creative efforts. Until then I am merely reflecting all the really great stuff that others are doing.
If you find your recipe/artwork/product on here and you don’t want it to be, or you think I haven’t represented you fairly, please respond to the post and let me know. I’ve tried asking and believe me you can spend a whole lot of time waiting… for no reply. I hope you’re thrilled to find your feijoa creation on this site and please know that I always try to provide a link and a credit so you can enjoy all the great traffic from other feijoa lovers too.
And if you have something you want featured, try me. Leave a response on the latest post with a contact email address.
Many thanks for stopping by. — Juliana
Fabulous site Juliana – well done! I’ll be coming here for recipes for sure.
thanks my dear – can’t wait for your feijoas to fruit too.
Keep up the good feijoa work Juliana and thanks for the great recipes – I love the gems!
Thanks Sally, I’ve hurt my back so computer time is curtailed at the moment. Will get more recipes up soon, I promise.
I like the new look – congratulations!
Thanks Sally, I decided to keep it simple and look for a designer some time down the track. But this design makes it easier to read, I think. My flowers are about to unfurl so I am hoping to get some more photos too.
Hello Juliana, I like your site – and what a fantastic number of followers to this and your facebook page. NZ Feijoa Growers Assoc is just starting out – I pinched your Christmas wreath photo for our small facebook page -hope you dont mind.
Ian Turk
http://www.facebook.com/pages/New-Zealand-Feijoa-Growers-Association/226492450735415?ref=pb
Hi Ian, thanks for stopping by and signing up, it’s great to have some kiwi expertise to refer back to – will be joining you on your Facebook page too. Just so it’s clear, I am not responsible for the fantastic feijoa page on Facebook – I am just promoting it and I think it’s phenomenal that so many people are crazy mad about feijoas. I’ll be posting again from this week… more great feijoa-ness coming soon.
Hi Juliana,
I am writing an article about feijoas for a permaculture magazine and was wondering if I could use your blog as a reference point for people to go to for information and also use one of your recipes in the article (haven’t decided which one yet – they all look so nice!!!!!!). Of course I would credit you! What a great site! Very interesting! Cheers, Natalie
Wow, thanks Natalie, go ahead. My primary aim was to spread the word about this fabulous fruit – which still meets with many a blank stare over here in Australia whenever I mention it – and which needs more growers, wider distribution and cleverer marketing. If there is any way I could get a copy of the published article, that would be a bonus. And yes, so many really good recipes!! Many more to come.
hi Julianna. love love love this site. has everything i was looking for and more. i am going to try the feijoa paste…it sounds fantastic. thanks.
Hi Julianna, Stumbled across your site via Ooooby. I can send you descriptions for some of the varieties you don’t have one for : )
Kate
Oh wow. Would love to fill in some of the gaps – so many more than I thought there’d ever be! You can email me at juliana.cross11@gmail.com.
Hi Juliana, I have just found your site and, as a commercial feijoa grower in New Zealand, I think it’s WONDERFUL that you are so passionate about this fruit. If you would like to see how our co-op works (along with recipes and other postings), check out our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/futurefruit. I look forward to testing some of your recipes. ☺
Hi Raych, thanks for stopping by to comment. I can’t wait until this industry is buzzing over here in Australia as much as it does in New Zealand. Love your FB page and all the photographs – do you know how much I adore marmalade cats too? I’ll add you in to some of the links so my visitors can find you – it’s always nice to hear from the growers. And I fixed the slash
Will check out some of your recipes too.
The marmalade is our fat cat Fantapants. He enjoys being out in the orchard… as does Mr PigPig, our porcine feijoa garbage disposal unit. He is extremely happy that our fruit is nearly ready, as he gets the rejects. ☺ I am sure he will feature on our page soon too. Thanks again for collecting and sharing such useful information.