Author: Kelly Palermo

Honeyloupe Melons Grower: Munak Family Farm Description: The Honeyloupe is a sweet, high sugar content melon that takes the best characteristics of its parent fruits. Its rind is pale yellow lime, netless and smooth like a honeydew, whereas its flesh is coral orange, succulent and floral sweet, typical of a Cantaloupe. Average weight for ripe Honeyloupe …

Concord Seedless Grapes Grower: Murray Family Farm Description: The Concord seedless grape is a cross between a Thompson seedless and a Concord. They are about average in size with an inky dark purple color. The Concord is a sweet variety, high in sugar and acidity……..    THE FARMS:   Fitzgerald Farms- Reedley, CA Yellow Peaches Yellow …

Golden Raspberries Grower: Pudwill Farm Description: Actually a milder flavored version of the red raspberry, the plump golden raspberry offers somewhat of a creamy flavor that some describe as a blend of a banana, an apricot and a raspberry. These little eye-catching berries are deep yellow when immature and develop a rich amber gold color when …

White Nectarines Grower: Fitzgerald Farm 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 …

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 …

White Beets Grower: McGrath Description: Baby White beets lack the commomly earthy, strong beet flavor that colored beets embody. They also lack the betalain pigments that colored varieties possess. What Baby White beets do have is a high level of sweetness as beets have the highest amount of natural sugars of all vegetables. The beets are …