Dellios Apples
Food in Moorabool

Great quality. We take great pride and care in producing great quality with even better taste! choose from an array of fresh produce grown in our orchards. We grow many varieties of apples along with a few lines of stone fruit. even better taste! orchardists, located in bacchus marsh, fruit growers, victoria australia. Sales to the public welcome.

We have been operating in the lovely Bacchus Marsh valley since 1954. Originally growing vegetables in Werribee for more than 10 years they decided to make the move to the productive valley of Bacchus Marsh and have never looked back. Behind moving to Bacchus Marsh they decided to do what most of the farmers were doing, they started plantings of Apple trees in among st the rows of vegetables. Behind some years they ceased the growing of vegetables and focused on their newly established fruit crops. Having a important outlet in the Melbourne Markets, allows the supply of fruit to many of the smaller greengrocers throughout the metropolitan and country areas of Victoria. Unknown too many of the locals we also have direct to the public fruit sales from our main facility in the Avenue of honor. Our Farm Gate Fruit Veg Sales, enables locals to purchase fresh provide at very cheap prices. We not only grow apples, we have a important range of delectable summer fruits including, Apricots, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums and Pears, when in season. Our orchard plantings in Bacchus Marsh are now in excess of 450 acres, ensuring year round supply of healthy, new fruit.

We grow many varieties of apples along with a scanty lines of stone fruit. As in other cropping areas, there is also an ongoing problem with water rights being reduced to 5 for this irrigation season. As a family run operation, the business has grown and changed over the years but, one thing has perpetual remained the same, the family’s commitment to supplying the very superior conceivable fruit to market. From a modest beginning, first growing vegetables and then moving into orchard fruit, the business has expanded to 200 hectares with sufficient onside storage to regulate 16,00 bins (6,00 tonnes) in a controlled environment. The family also grow some Pears, Peaches, Apricots, and Nectarines. Taking a wider view, our customers, suppliers and industry groups such as AFFCO all make a significant contribution to the win of our business.’. People purchase fruit based on its visual appeal even though our fruit tasted great, the quality wasn’t reflected in the way it looked’. It didn’t make sense, until he realized that all the inferior grades that were being put back into bins to be regraded for a different market. He states that 30 of their time was wasted on double handling!’. Nick approached color Vision Systems, a company he knew and trusted and together they came up with a plan to completely upgrade the packing facility. The fresh facility would include a brand new, purpose built, state of the art packing room and the maximum unused and efficient grader that color Vision Systems could manufacture, a 4 lane integral qualified of doing color and blemish sorting, with the capacity to presort fruit in the event of major ravage such as hail etc. The handle of the total machine is via a touch screen. Even at this hasty stage of operation, the color Vision Systems grader has dramatically improved the visual quality of the finished fruit and its appearance on the supermarket shelves. Bacchus Marsh Apples now have a sparkling sheen to them and they not only taste good, they look huge too. They also trust that to continue viable into the future, growers in Australia need to grow, pack and market fruit jointly, instead of individually. Nick believes that growers shouldn’t be juggling their time between growing, packing and marketing. Nick believes that growers should consider sending their fruit to an efficient packing facility like theirs, enabling themselves to concentrate on growing better quality fruit, increasing load outs, and ultimately improving their bottom line. Nick concludes With the fresh color Vision Systems machine, our premium fruit presents like premium quality fruit should, making the job of selling a more achievable task with better returns’. The apple tree is a deciduous tree belonging to the rose family. Apple trees originated from Central Asian around the northwest of China and Kazakhstan. Early in the 19th century, large areas were planted with fruit trees, including apple trees to the south and west of Sydney. The peach originated in China where it had been cultivated for thousands of years and was mentioned in literature as far back as 551 B.C. Easy melting, juicy flesh The Nectarine tree, in all respects is like a peach tree. Nectarines should be yellow cream in color.