Month: May 2013

Rainier Cherries Grower: Murray Family Farm Description: The Rainier is an attractive yellow with a characteristic red blush on its tender edible skin. Rainer cherries are larger and more fragile than the Bing cherry. Its firm pulp contains a white heart and offers a sweet, fairly delicate flavor. Brown spots or scuffing on the surface indicates …

Saturn Peaches Grower: Fitzgerald Farms Description: The unusual Saturn peach boasts a whitish-yellow skin brushed with colorful red highlights. Short and squat and about three and a half inches in diameter and only about an inch and one-half high, the tender skin is covered with a very fine fuzz. The juicy white flesh offers a delicious …

Brooks Cherries Grower: Murray Family Farm Description: The Brooks cherry has all the trademark characteristics of cherries: rounded glossy firm fruit with an intense red flesh that will stain to the touch. Though, when fully ripe, its coloring is more like a black cherry, it has been compared to the Bing in quality and flavor. It …

White Corn Grower: Gloria Tamai Description: White corn is a sweet corn variety. Its ear is wrapped in layered green to white husks. Both the kernels and milk of white corn are white in color. It has a very high percentage of sugar and water in the composition of the kernels. When at its prime (the …