On Wednesday 12 May Nelson and Blenheim Year 7/8 students visited Pics Peanut Butter factory in Nelson.

Students thoroughly enjoyed visiting the factory and making their own peanut butter on a push bike! We saw the process of how peanut butter is made and the different forms of peanut butter, smooth and crunchy.

An interesting fact shared with us was that crunchy peanut butter is the most popular form of peanut butter in New Zealand. For every 10 jars of peanut butter they make, seven of them are crunchy peanut butter.

We learnt about Pic, who started his peanut butter making dream when he was 50 for his friends then selling at the farmers market and eventually opening a factory to produce larger amounts of peanut butter.  Pic only uses hi-oleic peanuts from Australia.

Overall it was a great day learning all about Pic and his peanuts and we had lots of fun together.