Zucchini

Description

zucchini is a squash that is available in southern Ethiopia at sizes of at least 15 centimeters, when it is still immature. It can attain 100 centimeters in length if the farmer leaves it to grow untended. It, however, undergoes harvesting while still tender, in its green elongated shape. Its origin is both select northern and southern American regions in unknown times, but the first evidence of the modern zucchini grew first in north Italy in the 1850s. It first appeared there from explorers to South America in the 1600s.

We source our Ethiopia summer squash from the southern regions of Ethiopia. Here, farmers cultivate it in an intercropping format next to coffee, maize and even sugar cane. The crop is highly productive, with each bushy stem producing around 12 fruits.