"And now it's both this kind of home fruit, and it's also like a little green thread connecting me to all of these other places around the world."
"We don't really like to pay for them, but because of that they enhance community in a way — because you need to know your neighbours in order to get hold of some feijoas."
"They don't require too much care — you can have one in the corner. Even if you've got a small suburban garden you can grow one in there and they provide huge amounts of fruit. One tree will really feed you for a season."
"They are being passed around because the conventional shops haven't yet learned to stock them. We've paid off so many social debts with them — we're invited out to dinner so often by New Zealanders who are starving for feijoas."