Peach

Ten Tasty Facts You Probably Didn’t Know About the Peach

By Seth Wright on August 14, 2013

Peaches have been on my mind lately. They are my favorite fruit, and they grow bountifully and beautifully in the Capay Valley. Many of our farms here cultivate more than one variety, and I feel …

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Poached Vanilla Peaches

By Rebecca Dienner on July 26, 2013

Recipe by Rebecca Dienner for The FruitGuys INGREDIENTS 2 peaches, ripe (fragrant) but not too soft 2 cups sweet white or dessert wine 1/4 cup maple syrup, agave, or sugar (see Cook’s …

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Riding the Peach Train

By Chris Mittelstaedt on June 21, 2010

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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FruitGuy Noir in Peachy Keen

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 24, 2010

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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A Peachy Mothers Day

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 10, 2010

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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Profile: Chaffin Family Orchards

By Heidi Lewis on January 22, 2010

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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