Aspara Pacific LTD

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Kate Warren Senior Associate

Mobile: 027 384 3054 Email: kate.warren@tp.co.nz Rolleston & Darfield Office: 03 317 9099 Christchurch Office: 03 374 9999 Ashburton Office: 03 308 4188 DARFIELD  ASHBURTON  ROLLESTON  CHRISTCHURCH

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Planning, including Enduring Powers of A orney, Trusts & Wills. Aspara Pacific Ltd are the top at the University of California, asparagus breeders in the Davis; working on the asparagus Southern Hemisphere. They are a diseases Phytophthora rot, Purple family business, based locally Spot and Stemphylium Leaf Spot. in Rolleston. Established in 1990, Peter's research has resulted in by Dr Peter and Linda Falloon, over 100 scientific publications. Aspara Pacific Ltd has been His passion for breeding breeding New Zealand's own asparagus of the highest quality asparagus varieties. The core is evident in the premium nature focus has been on improving of our varieties. Sadly, Peter spear quality and yields to allow passed away in 2021. His growers to be market leaders. amazing wife Linda, who also During this time they have has forty years of experience in grown high health asparagus Asparagus, and his son Matthew crowns for everyone, from the will continue Pete’s legacy. home gardener, to the biggest Linda Falloon runs the plant commercial growers in the tissue culture laboratory, which is country. their varieties have the key to their success in been independently trialed and producing virus free seed. With tested around the country. over thirty years of experience in This, combined with our years of this field, Linda's skills in microgrowing experience ensures you propagation of asparagus means only receive the best quality Aspara Pacific Ltd have been able plants. to fast track high health crown Dr Peter Falloon was an nurseries. extraordinary man and the Matthew Falloon having returned brains and founder of Aspara from Europe, took a career Pacific. With over forty years change to join Aspara Pacific Ltd of experience working with in 2016. His attention to detail asparagus he was a leader and and staff management expertise widely respected in his field. He graduated from Lincoln University in 1979 with a Bachelor of Agricultural Science with first class honours in Agronomy and Plant Physiology. Prior to founding Aspara Pacific, he spent ten years with the NZ Department of Scientific and Industrial research as an asparagus breeder. During this time, he studied for his PhD are ideal skills for running the high health asparagus nursery and quarantine greenhouses. “We are immensely proud of what dad achieved. He did extraordinary things to develop the New Zealand asparagus industry, and it is a great honor to continue his work on. It is important to our family that we keep our business local. There was an option to sell the breeding to overseas companies but that would have been at the detriment of New Zealand growers. Our focus is to keep it local and that way we continue to provide our community with great plant stock and beautiful fresh asparagus in the spring,” commented Matthew proudly. Production of high health asparagus crowns is an exacting business with Aspara Pacific being the lead producer of high health asparagus crowns in New Zealand.

To order crowns or to find out more information visit: www.asparaguscrowns.co.nz

Linda and Matthew out doing what they are passionate about.