Gerrit Van Der Merwe (right), chairman of the Western Cape Citrus Producers Forum, offers an orange to a customer at Food Emporium's Bridgemarket location in Manhattan, New York City. Van Der Merwe was sampling products and talking to customers as part of an in-store demonstration of Fair Trade Fruit from his South African farm. The WCCPF www.summercitrus.com is a consortium of some 350 growers approved to export citrus to the U.S.
Out of Africa
Gerrit Van Der Merwe (right), chairman of the Western Cape Citrus Producers Forum, offers an orange to a customer at Food Emporium's Bridgemarket location in Manhattan, New York City. Van Der Merwe was sampling products and talking to customers as part of an in-store demonstration of Fair Trade Fruit from his South African farm. The WCCPF www.summercitrus.com is a consortium of some 350 growers approved