Everything passes through good hands.
Our Wairarapa orchard grows yuzu, olives, limes, lemons, mandarins, figs, feijoas and plums. It's tended by hand and fed by our therapy horses and bees, who keep the soil and plants healthy and the whole place calm.
Nothing here is done at scale, and nothing comes from a factory. Just good food and gentle remedies, grown slowly in living soil and shared with open hands.
What's good right now.
A little of what we're growing and making.
Yuzu Marmalade
Fragrant, tart and unmistakable — the fruit that started it all.
Yuzu Marmalade Recipe
Fresh picked Yuzu
Fragrant, tart and unmistakable — the fruit that started it all.
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Yuzu Leaves
Freshly picked yuzu leaves, cut to order. Bruise or tear a leaf to release the aroma before you cook with it.
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Dehydrated Limes
Hand-cut and slowly dried, ready for your next G&T or pot of tea.
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It starts with the land. Our Wairarapa orchard grows citrus, olives and stone fruit, all spray-free, ripened slowly on the tree and picked by hand at their peak. We have bees in our yuzu orchard, and our therapy horses graze among the olives, feeding the soil that feeds the fruit.
Whole fruit, skin on
The peel is where citrus keeps much of its natural oils, flavonoids and fibre. We slice the whole fruit, so nothing good gets left behind.
Sealed in at the peak
We slice and dry each fruit at the height of its season, then seal it straight away in food-grade, resealable bags that lock in the freshness. Where we can, we send the same day it's packed — so what arrives is as close as possible to the moment it left the tree.
Spray-free
Our trees are grown without sprays. What's on the fruit is what nature put there, our horses handle the fertilising and our bees handle the pollination.
Nothing added
No preservatives, no sugar coating, no sulphites. One ingredient per bag: the fruit itself, fresh or slowly dried.
Made for sharing, not the shelf.
News from the orchard.
Yuzu limeonade at the Horseshoe Tap Room, Wairarapa
Dale, the brewer at the Horseshoe Taproom, turned a crate of our yuzu into a bright, floral yuzu limeinade, pop down, they may have some left on tap.
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No tree grows alone
Our horses live among the olive trees. They're part of our equine therapy programme, and they're also the orchard's fertiliser team, keeping the ground rich the old-fashioned way.
Our bees do their own quiet work, moving from blossom to blossom in the Yuzu orchard, each spring, pollinating the trees that give us our fruit.
Everything on this land works together: the horses feed the soil, the bees transfer the pollen, the soil and the pollen feed the trees, and the trees feed the table.
People sometimes ask us where the name Good Hands came from.
For us, it's about looking after the land.
Planting
The hands that planted the first trees. Our hands planted every seed into the rich Wairarapa soil, believing that the best things in life are grown slowly, nurtured carefully, and shared generously.
Pruning
The hands that prune in winter. Preparing each tree for another season of healthy growth and abundant harvests.
Harvesting
The hands that harvest each season. Celebrating the reward of months of patience, care, and hard work.
Creating
The hands that cook, preserve and create. Honouring the harvest with recipes made to be shared.
Friends from afar
The hands of friends who've travelled from around the world to help us care for this little piece of land. Thanks to HelpX
Your table
One day, the hands that will unwrap one of our products and share it around their own table.
Everything passes through good hands.
— The Good Hands orchard