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 …
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By Shannan Slevin on
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 …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: apples, family farm, frecon farms, pennsylvania, stone fruit, sustainability
By Miriam Wolf on
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. …
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Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: dessert, glazed, stone fruit, summer
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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 …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: aprium, plum, plumcot, pluot, spring, stone fruit, summer
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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 …
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Filed Under: Ask the FruitGuys, FruitGuys News Tagged With: nectarines, peaches, plums, ripening, stone fruit
By Seth Wright on
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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Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: Capay Valley, capay valley farm shop, capay valley farmshares, farm shares, national peach month, nectarines, nutritional value of peaches, Peach, peach pits, peaches, stone fruit
By Heidi Lewis on
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. …
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Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: apricots, california farms, Central Valley, nectarines, olson family farm, olsons, organic farming, peaches, plums, stone fruit
By Rebecca Dienner on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Recipes Tagged With: Peach, peach recipes, peaches, stone fruit, summer, vanilla poached peaches
By The FruitGuys on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: Apricot, dapple dandy, fruit hybrid, plum, pluot, pluots, stone fruit, summer
By FruitGuys Staff on
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 …
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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
By Seth Wright on
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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Filed Under: Farms, FruitGuys News Tagged With: Capay Valley, capay valley farm shop, capay valley farmshares, farm shares, figs, melons, stone fruit, summer harvest, summer on the farm, warm weather
By FruitGuys Staff on
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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By The FruitGuys on
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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By FruitGuys Staff on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: Bing Cherries, cherries, cherry, stone fruit, summer
By The FruitGuys on
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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By The FruitGuys on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: Angelcot, Apricot, stone fruit, summer
By Julie Collins on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: apricots, candycots, chris briton, dietary fiver, nutritional value of apricots, paul konynenburg, stone fruit, summer, summer fruit, yuliya
By Julie Collins on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: antioxidants, article, dietary fiber, european plums, japanese plums, nutriional value of plums, plum, Plum Crazy for Plums!, plums, stone fruit, summer, vitamin C
By Heidi Lewis on
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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Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: anthocyanin, antioxidants, article, beta carotene, black tartarians, cherry juice, cherry season, gold cherries, how to store cherries, maraschino cherries, nutritional value of cherries, rainer, red cherries, sequoia, stone fruit, summer, tart cherries
By Heidi Lewis on
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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Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: berries, spring, stone fruit, storing fruit, strawberries, Strawberry, summer
By The FruitGuys on
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 …
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Filed Under: Food, FruitGuys News Tagged With: how to pick apricots, nectarines, peaches, pluots, Red Plum, stone fruit
By The FruitGuys on
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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By FruitGuys Staff on
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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By FruitGuys Staff on
Plumcot is a hybrid of a plum and apricot invented by Luther Burbank. Flavorella is golden with a slight blush. …
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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: Apricot, apricot hybrid, apricot plum, flavarella, flavorella, flavorella plumcot, fruit hybrid, plum apricot, plum hybrid, plumcot, stone fruit, stone fruit hybrid
By FruitGuys Staff on
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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By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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 …
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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
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: fall, o'henry, O'Henry Peach, peaches, stone fruit, summer
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: Angelcot, aprium, floyd zaiger, hybrid fruit, plumcots, pluot, pluots, stone fruit, summer, Twin Girls Farm
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: how to pick a ripe nectarine, how to pick a ripe peach, nectarines, peaches, ripening tips, stone fruit, summer
By Chris Mittelstaedt on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: Apricot, aprium, hybrid fruit, nectarines, peaches, plum, plumcot, pluot, stone fruit, stone fruit hybrids, summer, summer fruit
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: article, nectarines, peaches, ripeness, ripening fruit, stone fruit
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, The FruitLife Tagged With: article, nectarines, Peach, peaches, pluot, stone fruit, summer
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, The FruitLife Tagged With: article, cherries, cherry, early peaches, peaches, 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, The FruitLife Tagged With: article, blueberries, grown in USA, local, regional, spring, stone fruit, strawberries
By The FruitGuys on
"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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: Laroda Plum, plums, stone fruit, summer
By The FruitGuys on
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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Filed Under: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: how to store, spring, stone fruit, summer
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, The FruitLife Tagged With: article, brentwood, california delta, nectarines, stone fruit, summer, u-pick, uptick
By The FruitGuys on
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: FruitGuys News, Produce Glossary Tagged With: Ataulfo Mango, Champagne Mango, fruit, Mango, mangoes, manila mango, spring, stone fruit
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