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They're only into their fourth year growing avocados but they're already sharing their passion for the fruit with visitors from all over the world.
In March 2022, Tim Rosamond and Michele Ricou moved from Wellington, where they were working as IT professionals, to take on an overgrown avocado orchard near Katikati in the Bay of Plenty, drawn by the weather and a change in lifestyle.
But it wasn't all plain sailing with weather challenges and the high cost of harvesting the enormous trees.
While Ricou kept working remotely in IT, there was still a shortfall in income.
"We had a really good crop the f
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