THE POWER OF GREEN By Christian Shane Dougherty
Zealanders, Nick Siu, Sachie Nomura (Nicks wife) and Terry Daly (me). Sachie is a chef and she invented avocadomilk - she was trying to make a mayonaise out of avocados, and it was very liquid and she thought it tasted great - got Nick and I to try it, and we liked it. We had never seen an avocadomilk before so thought we should make it.
Avocadomilk is environmentally responsible. Our farms are all irrigated with rainwater only – no additional irrigation systems used. All our bottles are rPET. This means that they are made from 100% recycled plastic and can keep being recycled. The company uses 100% vegetable inks for all labelling. I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Terry Daly, owner of Avocadomilk. With your new distributor, do you anticipate making the product available in more citCan you tell us a little about ies, or just California for now? where you are from and how We are now with Kehe and Unifi. you were inspired to create AvWe employed a sales manager ocadomilk? for the USA earlier this year, we Avocadomilk is from New Zea- are now in over 200 supermarland. It is owned by three New kets in California, the Rocky
Mountain Area, Texas and the Midwest. We are in final discussions with supermarkets in New York and Florida so should be on shelves across the states in September.
Where do you get the avocados? Mexico - we wanted to have a grower that was sustainable and used only rainwater that looked after the land that they grow on and the people that grow the fruit. And most importantly, the best tasting avocados can be found on our farms in Mexico!
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