Papaya Proud!

I'm "Papaya Proud"!!

I can't resist mentioning our new variety of papaya...

Royal Star

Actually it's my husband, our son and our two

business partners who I am really proud of.

We farm near Manzanillo, Mexico.

Our son heads up the organization down there

with two men who have been with us almost since the

beginning.

My husband oversees the arrival of the papaya from

Mexico, the sales and quality control.

Our sales staff must be commended as well.

We have an exclusive on this variety of papaya.

That means we are the only growers who can

have this seed.

Not a papaya lover?

... I wasn't either...

until this papaya came on the scene.

This past weekend roughly 18,000 attendees roamed the

exhibit hall in Atlanta at PMA...

Produce Marketing Association.

My husband and son were both thrilled with the

response to our new papaya.

Good job, men!

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And here it is Mosaic Monday again and once more

I am joining in over at

Little Red House for all  the fun!!

(Frankly, I'm working on perfect attendance!! lol)

Oops! Almost forgot to mention... notice the picture of the papaya cut in half? Do you see the star where the seeds are.

Yes... that's how we named this very sweet papaya.

Enjoy!

A little history

I've hopped across the border to my other life... wife of a man doing business in Mexico. I had no clue when my husband and I dreamed up this idea of doing this about twenty years ago how this would affect our lives forever. I eventually moved to Guadalajara, put our two younger sons in the American School, and drove three hours south to see my husband every weekend. He was busy starting a farm down there as part of a large farming operation that his family was a part of. Almost four years ago we, along with our oldest son, bought the Mexico division of this company. Again, we packed our bags and headed south... this time for three years. We are farmers. We grow honeydew, papaya, watermelon and have a small acreage of mangos. We have returned to our homebase in Texas, however, our son remains in Mexico running the production operation. More to come in the next "episode"...
-- We are located just south of Guadalajara and close to Manzanillo