The Farmers Market Box

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 …