Freshwater Produce

You haven't tasted real water until you drink the limestone filtered water at Freshwater Plantation. And its not offer in contaminating plastic bottles, just glass and stainless steel. No wonder the calming Kava made is strikingly different. You haven't breathed fresh air until you come to a place like Freshwater Plantation where every variety of vegetation in the botanical gardens filters the air.

Sitting in the alfresco restaurant at night you wonder why you are not carried away by mosquitoes: That is thanks to the symbiotic relationship of the Aoré Island Bat Cave pets who come and sweep the area at dusk.

Every part of the day has a different orchestrated background sound from the Vanuatu Alarm Clock roosters before dawn the excited chorus of corralling birds at daybreak to the chirping of crickets in the evening.

When it rains it pours and you know that you are in a pristine environment because the frogs and the bees are the first victims of environmental degradation and they abound on the plantation.

Freshwater Plantation is incredibly fertile land. The highlands which comprise the majority of the acreage enjoys above average rainfall due to its position in the lee of the prevailing trade winds.

Currently the plantation has a small cattle herd, a growing goat herd and poultry operations.

The plantation has large stands of timber, cocoa, coffee, tamarind, avocados, coconuts, passionfruit, citrus as well as established vegetable and root crop gardens.

Timber

300 acres of the property is heavily wooded with both hardwood and softwood trees as well as giant stands of wild coffee valued by locals as a building material for their customary houses. Species include Rosewood, Namilous, Red Stingwood Whitewood and Melktree.

Cultivation

10,000 mature cocoa trees, 500 hybrid coconuts in production. The plantation also has a mixture of orange, mandarine, avacados, bamblyfruit, breadfruit, marcot, leychee, Vanuatu apple, and mango trees as well as Tamarind, Taminu and Ngangui nut trees.

Livestock

Freshwater Plantation raises goats and ducks for milk, meat and eggs. We have a small dairy herd breeding and some wild cattle in the upper reaches of the farm. Wild pigs are also prevalent. There are no natural predators.