Costa Rica Pineapple Tour
It’s pretty nice to sample fresh pineapple, picked and sliced right in front of you in the field.
Feb. 28-29, I traveled to Costa Rica to see two pineapple operations of San Jose-based Frutas de Exportacion Frutex SA. We also visited the banana operation of Finca Bonita, based in Monteverde. The tour was arranged by Frutex’s North American pineapple distributor, The Oppenheimer Group, Vancouver, British Columbia.
Coverage ran in the March 10 issue of The Packer. But not all the photos I took from the trip made it into the paper or digital editions.
Here are some more photos from the trip. It’s not possible to provide cutlines of all the photos in this format, but here are a few identifiers: the blonde lady is Karin Gardner, communications manager for Oppenheimer; the lady in the pink shirt is Ana Lucia Lopez, marketing manager for Frutex and tour guide; the man cutting the fruit with the large knife in the yellow shirt is Sergio Delgado, harvest manager at the Babilonia operation.
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posted by Greg Johnson @ 4:18 PM
3 Comments:
Thanks for sharing these photos, Greg. Looks like you had an scenic small plane ride over the hills of Costa Rica as well.
Tom
Yes, the bumpy plane rides did prove quite memorable! Costa Rica is a beautiful country by air and sea. We enjoyed having The Packer along for an inside look at the pineapple industry and everything that goes in to the Linda Gold brand.
The Blonde Lady
Hi Greg
I wonder if you had a chance to see all the toxic spraying that is used to make these pineapples grow. Google some stuff on pineapple in costa rica and it's enviornmental impact. I eat pineapple in California on a regular basis and never got sick on it till I came to Costa Rica.
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