At the heart of it all, we’re committed to offering fresh, high-quality produce, crafted with care and dedication every step of the way. NH Packing grows, harvests and packs buttercup squash from our paddocks in New Zealand for shipment to markets in Asia, and crown pumpkin and supermarket squash from our paddocks in Hawke’s Bay for supply to markets in the North Island and beyond.
Ajihei is a dry squash variety famous for its very dry and nutty flavour. It’s a premium quality fruit with a dark green skin and highly uniform in regards to size and shape.
A first class fruit with good size. Very sweet with outstanding taste. Fruit are flat, globe shape with dark green skin and thick yellow flesh. Fruit weight averages 1.7 to 1.9 kg.
A dry type squash of high quality. Uniform sweet fruit with dry texture. Fruit have black/green skin and fruit shape is more globe shaped than Ebisu. Fruit weight averages 1.7 to 1.9 KG but can range between 1.0 and 2.5 KG.
This squash has a dark skin colour. It is a flat shaped fruit with dry flesh. Sweeter after a month of storage, ‘takumi’ has an excellent shelf life. The average fruit size is 1.8 to 2.0kg.
Kuriyutaka is later to mature with a dark green mottled skin and flat-round fruit shape with dark orange flesh.
Our newest export variety - ACE has very dark skin, great taste and colour.
Crown pumpkin are grey skinned with rich orange flesh. The quality fruit have excellent storage ability and a mild sweet flavour with a soft moist texture.
Supermarket squash have very attractive dark skin with deep orange coloured flesh. The uniform sized fruit store well due to firm flesh. The supermarket squash flavour is sweet with a moist soft texture.