A South Australian farmer wants to see more of the thousands of fig varieties become more widely available to consumers.
The farmer hopes to increase the production of the striped fig, and other varieties, for the commercial market.
Mr Waddelow grows about 30 varieties of figs, with the panache or tiger fig one of the latest to be ready to sell to consumers."It's got some commercial potential because it lasts a long time in the fridge, which some of our agents were very interested in," he said. Mr Waddelow said it had taken years of work to get to where he was, including sourcing the fig from a collector in Western Australia.
"They brought this tree back from Libya to Australia and it was grown in the Victorian war museum gardens." "It almost looks frightening or prehistoric when you open it up because it has all these little seeds and this flesh, but when you bite into it the flavour is incomparable." While she suspected they could be brown turkey, a robust purple-brown fig, she said she had plenty of demand selling them as a side hustle.Ms Sonntag said her trees had two crops of fruit each year.
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