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Recipe: Peach Salsa with Tomatoes, Olives, Herbs and Lime

This makes a delicious side salad to accompany something from the grill or you can try it with cumin spiced black beans and tortilla chips! Ingredients 4 peaches or nectarines or a combination of both 2 medium tomatoes diced, or

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Fruit and News: Week of July 29th

This Week’s Fruit O’Henry Peaches The O’Henry has the flavor, size, and crimson blush that makes for a truly memorable peach. It’s elegantly pointed shape slices to an attractive heart shape for striking presentation. Our O’Henry harvest overlaps briefly–a few

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Farm Focus: Heirloom Tomatoes!

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Our Heirloom tomatoes are ready! They’ve been a long time in coming. The tomatoes have been Matt’s project this year. He started about 500 plants from seed in late January. The office space downstairs doubled as a greenhouse as Matt

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Recipe: Arugula Salad with Roast Chickpeas and Nectarines

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Ingredients 2 15 ounce cans  or 1.5 cups dried then cooked chickpeas, drained, rinsed and dried 12 ounces baby arugula 1 cucumber 4 celery stalks 3 nectarines, pits removed and thinly sliced 5 tablespoons olive oil, divided 4 tablespoons rice

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Fruit and News: Week of July 22nd 2013

This Week’s Fruit Summer Lady The Summer Lady is a variety that developed naturally in a commercial orchard in Fresno and was discovered in 1982. An early-ripening variant of the O’Henry, it is similarly well-balanced and aromatic. Slightly more round

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    via Martha Stewart

     
    Ingredients:
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  • Fruit & News of the Week: April 9, 2018

    This Week’s Fruit:
    Minneloa Tangelos
    Twin Girls Farm, Dinuba, CA
    The Tangelo is a cross between a mandarin and grapefruit. Its skin is easy to peel and its f…

  • Recipe: DIY Orange Soda

    Via Food52

    Ingredients:

    4 oranges
    1 lime
    1 cup granulated sugar
    Lemon lime seltzer water

    Method:

    Zest the oranges and the lime and add all o…

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