Rainier White, White Caps, Dove, Linen, Bone, Blanco, Acoustic White, Eggshell, Sierra, Frost, Mist. It's no longer simple to pick up a bucket of white paint. Arctic Mist nectarines are white fleshed …
Braised Black Spanish Radishes with Pecorino: A Flavorful Vegetarian Delight
Adapted from How to Cook Everything Vegetarian by Mark Bittman This cheesy side dish stars Black Spanish radishes, a winter variety known for their distinctive midnight-black skin and bright white …
Roasted Sweet Potato & Tomato Salad
Adapted from The Instant Cook by Donna Hay INGREDIENTS 4–6 fingerling sweet potatoes, peeled 3–4 small to medium tomatoes 2 cups micro greens or salad greens ½ cup toasted almonds, …
Talking About The Weather
There’s a fast-paced, smart device game called “Fingerzilla” that lets you rain Godzilla-like destruction down upon virtual cityscapes and towns using only your finger. While being at the helm of such …
The One Percent
By Thomas Nelson, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop Farmers, seed and equipment suppliers, food distributors and retailers, NGOs and community members from across the country, came together last …
Whole-Wheat Apple Bread
Adapted from cooks.com INGREDIENTS 3 cups whole wheat flour (or a combo of wheat and all-purpose flour) 2 ½ cups apple, peeled, cored, and finely chopped or grated 1 cup of vegetable oil …
Guayabate (Guava Paste)
Adapted from low-cholesterol.food.com INGREDIENTS Guavas, peeled, approximately ¾ to 1¼ pounds (10–18 guavas) Water, approximately 1 cup per pound of guavas Sugar, approximately 2 cups …
Radish Candy
By Heidi Lewis Here’s a great idea for a new product—radish-flavored chewing gum! Some reasons why radish-flavored gum would be great: Radishes have a great refreshing taste. They have a …
Customer Service Answers Some Fruit Quality Questions
Fruit Quality Grab Bag Winter can bring some challenges to keeping fruit at the appropriate temperatures during transport. Our buyers, packers, and delivery people do their best to keep fruit …
Sustainability, Resources, Food Safety are Hot Topics
Winter Farm Conferences The Monterey Peninsula is one of the most beautiful spots in the world, but it wasn't just the sparkly ocean breeze dancing through the pines that brought a near sell-out …
Red Navel Gazing
Citrus season is in full swing now, with all sorts of farm-fresh specialty fruit coming in. We see everything from Navel Oranges to Satsumas to Clementines to Ruby Red Grapefruits to Cara Caras. We’re …
February on a California Farm
By Paul Muller of Full Belly Farm, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop It is a fine Sunday morning. The sun is shining on a windless, cloudless blue sky. The light frost last night kissed crops …
The Lemon Lady
Karen Morss is called the Lemon Lady. She started her suburban Emerald Hills, CA (San Mateo County), an organic citrus farm, Lemon Ladies Orchard, in 2004. She has done her part breaking glass …
Watermelon Radish Salad with Greens
Recipe by Tanya Milosevich INGREDIENTS 2–3 watermelon radishes, sliced or julienned 2–3 carrots or 1 kohlrabi bulb, grated 1 bunch dandelion greens or living spicy Asian greens (roots …
Winter’s Plenty: Preparing and Storing Winter Squash
By Heidi Lewis The bounty of winter squash includes a fabulous array of colors, textures, and shapes. Just like the American population, they have an international palette of names, such as …
Gold Nugget Tangerine
Gold Nuggets are sweet and seedless little mandarin oranges, cousin to the Satsuma, recently bred at the University of California Riverside in the foothills of the Box Springs Mountains. This Citrus …
Packham’s Triumph Pear
Rumbly, bumpy, bulbous, gibbosic. Packham Triumphs are sweet pears, with character. Each a little askew like that friendly, odd fellow at the bus stop. This pear's parentage is Bartlett and Yvedale …
Microgreens Salad with Roasted Beets and Apples
Adapted from chow.com INGREDIENTS 2 cups microgreens (or other tender greens) 1 large or 2 small beets, roasted (see below), cooled, peeled, and diced 1 apple, cored and diced 2 …
Mandarinquat
The mandarinquat is a hybrid of the mandarin and the kumquat. Like kumquats, they can be eaten whole, peel and all, although they’re larger with crunchier skin, and tend to have many small seeds. Raw, …
Massaged Kale Salad with Apples and Beets
Adapted from foodnetwork.com INGREDIENTS 1 bunch kale, stalks removed and discarded, leaves thinly sliced 1 large or 2 small beets, roasted (see below), cooled, peeled, and diced 1 apple, …
