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Our pears

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Golden Delicious

A wonderful golden colour and delicious as an eating apple

Red Jonaprince

Red and wonderfully solid and long-lasting as an eating apple or to be used in dishes

Evelina®

Fresh-sweet with a solid bite, delicious and always of the same perfect quality!

Elstar

The most popular apple in the Netherlands with a red blush and yellow-green base

B.A. Lucas

A delicious eating pear with a nice even shape

Doyenne du Comice

The queen among pears: a wonderful appearance and delicious taste!

Conference

The most popular and most widely grown pear in the Netherlands

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Apples

Our apple varieties are real winners and have certainly found their way to consumers. Our latest pride is the Evelina, but the always fresh Elstar, Golden Delicious and our other varieties are equally gorgeous!

In addition to these much-loved winners, we at Van Kessel Fruit have all originally Dutch varieties available for trade.

Golden Delicious

A wonderful golden colour and delicious as an eating apple

Harvest period: End of September - beginning of October

Taste: Fresh, mildly acidic and sweet-juicy

Availability: September - July

Red Jonaprince

Red and wonderfully solid and long-lasting as an eating apple or to be used in dishes

Harvest period: Mid to end of September

Taste: Fresh, juicy sweet and acidic in taste

Availability: Year round

Evelina®

Fresh-sweet with a solid bite, delicious and always of the same perfect quality!

Harvest period: End of September - beginning of October

Taste: Wonderfully sweet in taste and with a solid bite

Availability: October - July

Elstar

The most popular apple in the Netherlands with a red blush and yellow-green base

Harvest period: End of August - beginning of September

Taste: Fresh, juicy sweet and acidic in taste

Availability: August - June

Pears

Juicy, healthy and a fine treat in between meals: the pear. At VKF we have a wonderful assortment of pears. From the popular Doyenne du Comice, the sweet Conference, to the B.A. Lucas, which is a bit more coarse in structure and stands out with its special taste.

In addition to these varieties we have all originally Dutch varieties.

B.A. Lucas

A delicious eating pear with a nice even shape

Harvest period: End of September - beginning of October

Taste: The highly recognisable taste is moderately sweet

Availability: September - March

Doyenne du Comice

The queen among pears: a wonderful appearance and delicious taste!

Harvest period: Mid to end of September

Taste: Nice and juicy and fully sweet with a rich aroma

Availability: September - February

Conference

The most popular and most widely grown pear in the Netherlands

Harvest period: End of August - beginning of September

Taste: Soft-sweet and juicy or fresh and crunchy (unripe)

Availability: Year round

VKF has 3 growing locations of its own in the Netherlands with a total surface area of 100 hectares.

Growing location Velddriel

This growing company is located near our headquarters in Velddriel. Fruit has been grown here for over 80 years. while in the early years it was predominantly varieties such as Cox, Golden Rennets and Golden Delicious that were grown, today Conference, Elstar and Evelina® cover the largest area of the growing surface.

Growing location Waardenburg

At the location in Waardenburg a total of 25 hectares of top fruit is grown. Like in Velddriel, Elstar and Conference are grown predominantly at this location. Besides these two winners, we also grow Jona Redprince.

Growing location Oud-Vossemeer

In 1994 we purchased this gem on the Zeeland island of Tholen in Oud-Vossemeer. Over the past years we only planted pear varieties here. At Oud-Vossemeer Conference (16 ha) and B.A. Lucas (9 ha) are currently grown.

Our own growing locations supply a major part of VKF’s total top fruit trade. All the other top fruit are purchased from Dutch growers.