The Farmers Market Box

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 …

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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 …