Beautiful fresh organically grown avocados direct from our organic farm to your kitchen
The Hass avocado is a variety of avocado with dark green, bumpy skin. It was first grown and sold by Southern California mail
carrier and amateur horticulturist Rudolph Hass, who also gave it his name.
The Hass avocado is a large-sized fruit[2] weighing 200 to 300 grams (7 to 10 oz). When ripe, the skin becomes a dark purplish-black
and yields to gentle pressure. When ripe, the flesh is pale green near the skin and becomes a deeper yellow-green towards the center.
Owing to its taste, size, shelf-life, high growing yield and in some areas, year-round harvesting, the Hass cultivar is the most
commercially popular avocado worldwide. In the United States it accounts for more than 80% of the avocado crop and 95% of the
California crop, and it is the most widely grown avocado in New Zealand.
Hass avocado trees, like some other cultivars, may only bear well every other year. After a year with low yield, often because of cold,
for which the tree does not have much tolerance, yields may be very high the next year. However, the heavy crop can deplete stored
carbohydrates, lowering the following season's yield and this can set the tree into a lifelong alternate bearing pattern. The Evergreen
Olive Estate Hass Avocado blocks have good volcanic soil and drainage, plentiful sunlight and cool gentle winds from the Tasman Sea and
Pacific Ocean which help the fruit grow. These conditions hold throughout the year, so there are always fresh harvests of Hass avocados
in our Northland.
