Author: Kelly Palermo

Grower: Warren Pears Description: The Warren pear is the perfectly crafted composition of its parentage. Its appearance, though less than perfect (its skin slightly scarred by nature) is quintessential: bulbous, yet bell-shaped, sun-kissed with tones of earth, sun and clay and dotted with bronze freckles hinting at the fruit’s ripeness. Each visual element is simply a …

Baby Corn Grower: McGrath Description: Typically available in white and yellow, considerably cute baby corn usually measures about three to four inches in length. Eaten whole, this unique darling tiny corn has a much milder flavor than mature corn. Baby corn is merely immature sweet corn.     THE FARMS:   Frog Hollow Farms Emerald Beaut Pluots …

Valencia Pride Mango Grower: Wong Farm Description: Valencia Pride mangos have an unrivaled sweet, aromatic and floral flavor. The outer skin of the mango is a canary yellow with a pinkish blush. Valencia Pride’s inner flesh is firm and fiberless.     THE FARMS:   Frog Hollow Farms Flavor Rich Pluots Flavor Heart Pluots August Fire …

Indian Blood Peach Grower: Penryn Orchard Description: Indian peaches are distinguished by dark red flesh, their fairly large size and their velvety thin skin with mottled layers of red tones throughout. Their tender firm flesh is marbleized with ruby and crimson red streaks from the skin to the fruit’s stone. Indian peaches’ high acid content contributes …

Peacotum Grower: Fitzgerald Farms Description: The Peacotum Stonefruit is a hybrid of a plum, apricot, and yellow peach. It has a golden yellow and dark pink blushed skin with a slight fuzz, like a peach. The flesh of the Peacotum is the color of a yellow peach but the consistency of a plum. The flavor is …

Coco Shelling Beans Grower: 2 Peas in a Pod Description: Coco Shelling beans are encased in slender green to golden pods, each pod holds anywhere from one to six beans. The beans develop in the shell until they are plump enough to frame the shell’s skin. Coco Shelling beans are connected to the pod by a …

Ogen Melons Grower: Weiser Description: The Ogen melon has the initial appearance of a cantaloupe with a cornflower yellow netted rind and lime green longitudinal grooves running from stem to blossom end. When ripe, the pale green flesh is succulent and sticky sweet with intoxicating aromatics of tropical fruit and flora. The flesh bears a pulpy …

Cavaillon Melons Grower: Weiser Description: The Cavaillon melon is sweet and aromatic with a high sugar content. Ripe Cavaillon melons have a lime green skin with pale green vertical striping, a brilliant orange flesh with a floral-sweet aroma. Its flesh contains a central seed cavity that is easily removed from the edible flesh. The stem of …

White Nectarines Grower: Fitzgerald Description: White nectarines distinguish themselves from Yellow nectarine varieties in their balance of sugar and acid. White nectarines lack the acidity that yellow nectarines contain, thus they are referred to as sub-acid. Fruits are rounded and slightly heart-shaped with a single central groove. Their skin is paper thin, smooth and blushed with …