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Fruitful Visits

By Shannan Slevin on July 27, 2016

Frecon Farms, in southeastern Pennsylvania, is as rich in history and community as it is in apples and stone fruits. Founded in 1944 by Richard S. Frecon and his wife, Martha, the orchard started as …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: apples, family farm, frecon farms, pennsylvania, stone fruit, sustainability

Vanilla-Roasted Stone Fruit

By Miriam Wolf on May 21, 2016

In June, we must eat stone fruit. Stone fruits are those fruits that consist of flesh surrounding a single hard pit. They include peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, cherries, and even mangoes. …

Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: dessert, glazed, stone fruit, summer

Ode to the Apricot

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 17, 2016

I have been given a copy of Robert Palter’s The Duchess of Malfi’s Apricots, and Other Literary Fruits. It’s a great reference book if you like those moments of clarity when writers unravel the human …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: aprium, plum, plumcot, pluot, spring, stone fruit, summer

How can I tell when my stone fruit is ripe?

By The FruitGuys on May 13, 2014

Q: How can I tell when my stone fruit is ripe (or ready to eat)? A: To protect stone fruit during delivery, such as peaches, plums, nectarines, and apricots, we send it to you on the slightly …

Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, FruitGuys News Tagged With: nectarines, peaches, plums, ripening, stone fruit

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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Profile: Olson Family Farms

By Heidi Lewis on July 28, 2013

Olson Family Farms in California’s Central Valley is truly a family affair. Five generations have lived on the farmstead and worked the land since John and Anna Olson emigrated from Sweden in 1888. …

Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: apricots, california farms, Central Valley, nectarines, olson family farm, olsons, organic farming, peaches, plums, stone fruit

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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Dapple Dandy Pluot

By The FruitGuys on July 2, 2013

The Dapple Dandy Pluot is a sweet plum-apricot flavored pluot with beautifully dappled skin. These pluots contain fiber and complex sugars for sustained energy, and the taste is fantastic. …

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A Little Apricot History

By FruitGuys Staff on June 19, 2013

from Good Humus Produce, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop A combination of Royal and Blenheim Apricots From the Luxemburg Gardens in Paris to England’s Blenheim Palace to the imperiled orchards …

Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: Apricot, apricots, ark of taste, blenheim apricot, Capay Valley, capay valley farm shop, capay valley farmshares, farm shares, good humus produce, heirloom fruit, royal blenheim, stone fruit, summer

Lots of Heat Means Good Eats

By Seth Wright on June 12, 2013

By Seth Wright, courtesy of Capay Valley Farm Shop This 2013 has been an unusually hot and dry spring here in the Capay Valley. The rain, which usually occurs from January until the end March, …

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Brooks Cherries

By FruitGuys Staff on April 16, 2013

In the American cherry world everything comes after the Bing. And the wingman to the Bing is the Brooks - a headliner in its own right, a sweet early cherry. …

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Black Plum

By The FruitGuys on April 2, 2013

Black and Blue. There's a battle in the fruit department; the fruits are fighting over who has more antioxidant carotenoids. But it is the USDA that says Black Plums are exceptionally high in an assay …

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Bing Cherries

By FruitGuys Staff on March 27, 2013

Yeah! Cherries! A fruit so packed with taste and lore, in poems, paintings, and punk rock songs- how we worship this fine little fruit. For many the first cherries are a sign of spring and renewal, …

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Fire Sweet Yellow Nectarine

By The FruitGuys on March 11, 2013

The Fire Sweet Yellow Nectarine is a sub-acid (low tartness) honey-flavored clingstone, with an almost all red skin color. It comes from Summer Fire and August Red stock. …

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Angelcot

By The FruitGuys on February 26, 2013

What do you get when you cross a cherubic Hummel figurine and an apricot? An Angelcot. Developed by Ross Sanborn, this unique short season apricot is notable for its very pale yellow—almost white …

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CandyCot

By Julie Collins on July 2, 2012

Described as “knock-your-socks-off-good!” by FruitGuys buyer Misi Katoa, CandyCots are a uniquely sweet group of apricot varieties grown exclusively by a family-owned, fourth-generation farming …

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Plum Crazy for Plums!

By Julie Collins on June 28, 2012

By Gretchen Bay It’s officially summer. And summer means (among other delicious things)—plums! Unlike their stone-fruit cousins' peaches and nectarines (which come with a white or yellow flesh and …

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Bada Bing, Bada Boom

By Heidi Lewis on June 18, 2012

By Heidi Lewis You know what sweet summer cherries like? They like winter. That’s when they catch up on a little shut-eye and wake up refreshed. Many stone fruits and pomes need the chill hours to …

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Spring Swooning for Summer Fruit

By Heidi Lewis on May 14, 2012

By Heidi Lewis Here they come, rolling into town— They get the hungriest looks from, everyone around— [drum fill”¦] Hey, hey, they’re the summer fruits! And they’re super duper cute! It may not …

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Guide to Stone Fruit

By The FruitGuys on April 18, 2012

Everything you always wanted to know about stone fruit (but were afraid to ask) Here's a primer on some of our favorite stone fruit, from peaches to nectarines to apricots, and plums, from peach-like …

Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: how to pick apricots, nectarines, peaches, pluots, Red Plum, stone fruit

Red Beaut Plum

By The FruitGuys on March 24, 2012

Beauty, but friends call it "Beaut" for short, is an early smooth red plum with yellow flesh. Good plum to know on a first-name basis. …

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Plumcot

By FruitGuys Staff on February 18, 2012

Plumcot is a hybrid of a plum and apricot invented by Luther Burbank. It is similar to pluot, except that the Plumcot is a half and half combination. …

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Flavorella Plumcot

By FruitGuys Staff on February 18, 2012

Plumcot is a hybrid of a plum and apricot invented by Luther Burbank. Flavorella is golden with a slight blush. …

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Arctic Mist White Nectarine

By FruitGuys Staff on February 18, 2012

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 …

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Talking About The Weather

By Chris Mittelstaedt on February 14, 2012

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 …

Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: citrus, cruz ranch, drought, dry winter, Ed Magee, farming, nectarines, peaches, ronnie gutierrez, small farms, stone fruit, Weather, winter

O’Modern O’Henry!

By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 26, 2011

By Chris Mittelstaedt When O’Henry peaches start to appear, I think of O. Henry—the turn-of-the-century American short story writer who wrote The Gift of the Magi, a story about a young married man …

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Plu…ots

By Chris Mittelstaedt on August 4, 2011

Maybe you think I write too much about my kids. I kind of agree, but man, do they give me good material. Last week, for example, when I told them we would be getting pluots for this week’s cases, they …

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Ripe On Time

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 1, 2011

We’re so organized it’s almost bewildering. All week long, we’ve been going down the checklist helping the kids get ready for camp. “Sleeping bags?” “Got it, Dad!” “Flashlight?” “Daaadd! I’ve got …

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Balance the Beat

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 15, 2011

My daughters are in a rock band. One plays bass and the other drums. My 10-year old drummer has a problem with The Go-Go’s song “We Got The Beat.” “I keep losing my beat,” she says. “Have you looked …

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Fruit & Veggie Magic

By Chris Mittelstaedt on July 12, 2010

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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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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Of Rabbit Holes & Writing Desks

By Chris Mittelstaedt on May 3, 2010

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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The Spring Transition

By Chris Mittelstaedt on April 5, 2010

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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Laroda Plum

By The FruitGuys on November 23, 2009

"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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Apricot

By The FruitGuys on November 21, 2009

The apricot is a species of the genus Prunus, along with its stone fruit sisters, plum, peach, and cherry, and its cousin almond. Apricots found their way through history and geography, emigrating …

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Sweet as Nectar

By FruitGuys Staff on July 18, 2005

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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Ataulfo Mango

By The FruitGuys on March 11, 2001

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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stone fruit

Fruitful Visits

Vanilla-Roasted Stone Fruit

Ode to the Apricot

How can I tell when my stone fruit is ripe?

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

Profile: Olson Family Farms

Poached Vanilla Peaches

Dapple Dandy Pluot

A Little Apricot History

Lots of Heat Means Good Eats

Brooks Cherries

Black Plum

Bing Cherries

Fire Sweet Yellow Nectarine

Angelcot

CandyCot

Plum Crazy for Plums!

Bada Bing, Bada Boom

Spring Swooning for Summer Fruit

Guide to Stone Fruit

Red Beaut Plum

Plumcot

Flavorella Plumcot

Arctic Mist White Nectarine

Talking About The Weather

O’Modern O’Henry!

Plu…ots

Ripe On Time

Balance the Beat

Fruit & Veggie Magic

Riding the Peach Train

Of Rabbit Holes & Writing Desks

The Spring Transition

Laroda Plum

Apricot

Sweet as Nectar

Ataulfo Mango

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