The Baby Kale Mix is a delicious, organic blend of greens with fresh Baby Kale. The Kale is tender and small making it great for specialty salads. We love creating Baby Kale citrus salads with Grapefruit varieties during citrus season. For a bold and beautiful plating tray Tarocco Blood Orange sliced with Baby Kale, and…
California produces 82% of the world’s total Almond production due to the Central Valley’s ideal growing conditions. Fat Uncle Farms, located in the San Joaquin Valley, has grown, hand picked, and processed their own Almonds for three generations. These Fat Uncle Almonds are blanched, meaning the raw Almonds are boiled and rinsed in cold water…
The texture and flavor of each tree ripe Asian Pear variety is surprisingly unique. Our grower packs a beautiful Mixed carton for us. Each carton features some combination of the following Asian Pears: Cho Juro (butterscotch, brandy flavors moderately juicy), Hosui (sweet, honey, brandy flavors juicy, smooth texture), Kikusui (citrusy flavor, refreshing crisp, coarser texture,…
Hand-selected and -packed especially for amenities, these lady-sized Asian Pears are small (diameter is 2-inches or less!), elegant and of excellent quality. They are also perfect for desserts, cheese plates and roasting whole. We have Brown Skin and Yellow Skin varieties: Cho Juro, Kosui and Hosui are the Brown Skin varieties 20th Century and Kikosui…
Seckel Pears prove the old adage that good things come in small packages. This diminutive pear variety is the connoisseur’ s favorite. Sweet, flavorful, aromatic, spicy, and perhaps the very best of the pear family. All this sweetness and flavor is packed inside a russeted skin occasionally blushed with red. Seckel Pears are perfect for…
These small, plumlike fruits take their name from Damascus, which is probably where they originated. They have deep blue-black skins with an attractive bloom. The flavor is very strong and tart, which makes them more suitable for cooking than eating out of hand. Damson Plums grow wild, but we have a grower who grows them…
Dapple Apple Pluots are one of the most popular plums summer has to offer. Sweet, rich, light-red flesh (nearly white near the pit) is covered with the distinctive light red mottled skin. Their unusual exterior makes them an eye-catching addition to fruit baskets and their red and white flesh presents well in tarts or galettes….
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A home orchard favorite, the Elephant Heart plum is as big on taste as its name suggests. Heart shaped, its yellow-green exterior hides watermelon red flesh that is firm, juicy and bursting with sweetness. It can be enjoyed fresh as a perfect snack and is a beautiful, rosy addition to compotes and tarts. Cooking adds…
Over 100 years ago, Luther Burbank began to experiment with the interspecific breeding of stonefruit. Today we have the Plumcot, Aprium and the Pluot, and the fruit world has never been the same. The newest delicious development is the Flavor Grenade Pluot. Aptly named, the sweet fruit flavor of the Flavor Grenade explodes onto the…
These Pluots have the Midas touch. Gold inside and out, Flavor Queen Pluots are another beautiful example of what happens when a grower crosses an Apricot with a Plum. Flavorful and sweet, Flavor Queen’s unusual color provides welcome contrast to the more common red and black Plums (and Pluots). Great for eating out of hand,…
Plum varieties seem to be coming out of the woodwork, but all of them can be divided into two main categories: Japanese and European. ITALIAN PRUNE PLUMS are considered a European variety. Italians are the main European variety and are smaller, firmer, sweeter, and less juicy than the Japanese varieties (i.e. Friar, simka and Sant…
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We have finally figured out why so many growers are crossing plums and apricots like crazy. They are trying to capture the flavor of Wild Northwest Plums. Each one of these little gems have a distinct, exotic flavor. A little tropical, very sweet, and very small. They look like small cherry tomatoes of three different…
GERMAN BUTTERBALL POTATOES are European in heritage, and these are real beauties. They have smooth golden skin with a yellow flesh, and a great, rich flavor…and the awards to prove it! Medium round to oblong tubers, GERMAN BUTTERBALLS are great for boiling, baking and mashing, and they produce wonderful hash browns. These potatoes are grown…
Hats off to the family farmer! Across the country family farms are being purchased by huge agricultural conglomerates…but that’ s mainly in the Mid-West, and those farms are growing wheat, corn, etc. Here in California the family farmer is king thanks to their innovation and responsiveness. One of our most talented family farmers is digging…
The Ozette Fingerling Potato is an heirloom said to be brought from Peru in the late 1700’s by the Spanish explorers and traded with the Ozette Indian tribe of the Olympic peninsula in Washington State. A very tasty and earthy potato, Ozettes are dug when 2 to 6 inches in length. This is a unique…
RED THUMB FINGERLINGS have brilliant, smooth red skin and very unusual rosy pink flesh that holds its color after cooking. This beautiful fingerling has very shallow eyes and is uniform in shape, and is sometimes a bit larger than other fingerling varieties.
Developed in the Baltic region of Eurasia and praised for its excellence as a salad potato, the RUSSIAN BANANA FINGERLING POTATO is a medium sized tuber with yellow skin and flesh. This particular variety has firm texture and great flavor…perfect for salads or sautes. At this time of year, our RUSSIAN BANANA FINGERLINGS are true…
Amy Goldman wrote the definitive book on Squash, The Compleat Squash. In it she says the winter Luxury Pumpkin has outstanding flavor and testure, holds it shape when cut into quarters and roasted. The Winter Luxury are the ideal Pumpkins to make the very best Pumpkin pies.