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Picking avocados isn’t as easy as shaking some branches. Instead, avocado pickers use a pole to pick the green fruit, as quality control mandates that once an avocado touches the ground, it can’t be exported.
Once picked, not all avocados cut the mustard. When an avocado makes it to the packing house, samples are sliced to ensure only the perfect fruit make it to the next step. This is where the bumpy fruit gets a makeover; they’re washed and brushed until their natural wax shines through. The gleaming fruit then receive another quality check from a camera that detects skin imperfections and differences in size. But don’t think that just because an avocado has a delicious inside but less-than-perfect skin that it’s discarded. No, instead, these avos are designated to become world-class guacamole.
Those avocados lucky enough to make it to the packing crates end up on your supermarket shelves a few days later.
Bloomin’ Avos
Each bloom cycle has a name and corresponds to the time of year when farmers harvest avocados:
Avocados are ready for picking in orchards located below an elevation of 2,000 meters in June and everywhere in the state from July through September.
Avocados are ready for picking in orchards located below 1,600 meters from July to August, in orchards from 1,600 to 2,100 meters in August and September, and in orchards above 2,100 meters in October.
It’s during this bloom when the majority of avocados are produced. The crop is available in lower area orchards (1,100 to 1,600 meters) in September, in orchards below 2,100 meters in October, and in most all of the orchards in the state from November through February.
Avocados are ready for picking in orchards below 1,900 meters in March, from orchards 1,600 to 2,000 meters in April, from 2,000 to 2,300 meters in May, and from orchards at 2,300 to 2,500 meters in June.
Lavacados
In the heart of the feared Trans-Mexican Volcanic Belt, among more than 100 volcanoes, a sea of avocado trees thrive. This volcanic soil makes Michoacán a particularly fertile region for avocados.
The love, care, and dedication to the land, and the bounty of avocados are what give this beautiful region the well-deserved name: Avocadoland.