Category: Farmers Market Report

  Rocky Sweet Melons Grower: Munak Farm Description: Encased in a pale thick bark-like golden skin that turns brownish-yellow when ripe, the Rocky Sweet melon’s green, smooth-textured flesh offers a spicy-sweet flavor. Exceptionally juicy, this melon tastes like a cross between a cantaloupe and a honeydew. A light yellow skin and a very strong, sweet aroma …

  Tomcord 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:   Coastal Organics- Carpinteria, CA Red beets …

Cot n Candy Apricots Grower: Frog Hollow Farms Description: The Cot-N-Candy aprium is a cross between an apricot and plum, taking on more characteristics from the apricot. The outer skin of the Cot-N-Candy aprium has an overall orange apricot color with peaking blush red tones. The inner flesh offers a very sweet flavor, hence the name, …

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 Nectarines Grower: Fitzgerald Farms 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 …

Apriums Grower: Fitzgerald Farms Description: The aprium has the initial appearance of a small deep rose-hued apricot, a physical trait inherited from its plum parentage. It skin is covered with a near translucent fuzz which the fruit inherited from its other parent, the apricot. The fruit’s flesh, when ripe, is sweet forward with a bright and …

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 …

Temecula Sweet Honey Onion Grower: Crows Pass Description: Temecula Honey onion is classified as a super sweet onion that is similar in flavor to the Maui or Vidalia varieties. Grown in Temecula, California this onion has the ideal climate to produce high sugar levels, with a Brix reading of 10. The Temecula Honey spring onion has …

Green Garlic Grower: Coleman Description: Green garlic are young, short-season garlic plants that are harvested before they begins to form mature bulbs or cloves. Green garlic range in height from 8-18″, producing thin, green stalks and small, cylindric to globular white bulbs. Green garlic has bright, piquant garlic flavor and a succulent firm texture.  THE FARMS: …