Look closely at your plum. Real close. See that? That's Luther Burbank's thumbprint. Luther was a botanist wizard at the turn of the century, a Midas of sorts whose more than 800 varieties of …
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By Heidi Lewis on
Look closely at your plum. Real close. See that? That's Luther Burbank's thumbprint. Luther was a botanist wizard at the turn of the century, a Midas of sorts whose more than 800 varieties of …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Fruito the Ripenificent was a world famous fruit magician. For years he had competed for top billing against Vern the Vegetastic until Vern suffered a fatal injury while trying to extricate himself …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
In the pantheon of great lyrical misunderstandings, I remember this: summer sunlight circa the mid-1970s and me dancing around our living room while singing at the top of my lungs to the “The Age of …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
I have many favorite fruits but cherries hold a special place in my heart. Maybe it’s because their harvest period is relatively short; or maybe it’s because they just taste so good—whatever the …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Nick fell into my office crying like an Italian sub forced onto sprouted wheat that had run aground on Mixed Metaphor Island. “Fire all morta-della-pedos!” he shouted in meat panic. He was in …
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Chrissy W., a Fruitguys customer service expert, flies me back to South Carolina on a magic carpet woven just for Mother’s Day from matriarchal memory threads in a southern storytelling …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Nessie, the six-month-old chocolate lab, tears through the house wanting nothing more than to lick the cat until it becomes her friend. A puffed up and spitting blur of fur trailed by a bottle brush …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: spring, stone fruit
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
In the fruit world, spring is the hardest time of year. Summer brings its abundance of stone fruits, Fall its apples, pears, persimmons, and pomegranates, and Winter all varieties of citrus that grow …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: berries, spring, stone fruit
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
The plum tree in my backyard is awake with white blossoms that shine silver in the moonlight and cluster on the dark wood branches like downy-snow. These small, soft, flowery nests attract wobbly …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
When we look for lessons in life, it’s not often that we can say: “Hey, check with the slime mold.” However, in The New York Times science section, there was a story about how researchers in Japan …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: Farm Steward, stone fruit, sustainability
By Heidi Lewis on
Oroville, CA - Oroville is a gold rush town in Butte County, CA. Oro means gold in Spanish, and during the Gold Rush prospectors stampeded over the area in a greedy frenzy. When Del Chaffin came to …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Profiles Tagged With: Agriculture, citrus, figs, heirloom fruit, mandarin, persimmon, pesticides, stone fruit
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Last but not least. This plum brings up the end of the plum parade. Yellow-green hued, stone-free, and good to the last bite. …
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"Low ri-der, drives a little slower." [Queue horn section]. The Laroda plum was developed in Winters, CA in the 1950s, and is cherished for its rich wine taste and beautiful color. It has been …
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The Elephant Heart Plum is yet another Luther Burbank invention. Burbank had a Midas touch in plant breeding. He began with a dozen plum seeds from Japan - a distant exotic land in 1880. And now …
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By Heidi Lewis on
“They're here! They're here!” The FruitGuys' buyers exclaim as if they were kids and a favorite rapscallion uncle has just pulled up in a convertible Caddy with a trunk load of fireworks. FruitGuys’ …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt Wayne, PA, June 1981. It’s a hazy and humid gray-blue Saturday, and the summer beetles are whistle-clicking as I push the riding mower backward out from the garage. I’m in …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
When my grandfather was in his 80s, weak and suffering through the New Orleans summer heat, a dark yellow cat appeared at his back door in Metairie, Louisiana. The house was raised on cinder blocks …
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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
Here are two things that I secretly wish sometimes: 1. That interpretative dance was an acceptable way to start a company meeting. 2. That I hadn’t tried to leap from my desk and spin on the …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: farm, stone fruit
By FruitGuys Staff on
We once spent a day driving through the Brentwood agriculture corridor hunting of the perfect nectarine. Brentwood is only a 90 minutes drive from San Francisco and is an ideal oasis near the …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News Tagged With: nectarine, stone fruit, summer
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Shaped like a golden bean, these sweet yellow mangos are sometimes also referred to as Champagne or Manilla mangos. This special-season mango evokes a tropical celebration that will send your taste …
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Filed Under: Fruit Tips, FruitGuys News Tagged With: fresh fruit, spring, stone fruit
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