California Stone Fruit season kicks off with sublime Tioga Cherries from Fruit World.

The Alexander Lucas pear when ripe, has buttery soft flesh, and is smooth and extremely juicy with a sweet delicate flavor. Pears are harvested when they are mature, but not yet ripe. Pears ripen from the inside out and are ready to eat when they give to slight pressure at the neck.

The Charleston Purple Sweet Potato is a close cousin to the orange-colored yam. It has an elongated shape and striking shade of dark purple. The variety not only holds color during the cooking process, it turns an even darker shade of purple!

The unique and pretty Sanguinelli Blood Orange is distinguished by its oblong egg shape and rind that has the brightest color of all the blood oranges, often a stunning cherry red. The flesh is tart and sweet and can have a berry-like undertone.

Pair Cranberries with Satsumas for a delicious Cranberry Sauce. Don’t miss Susan’s, Earl’s marketing manager, favorite recipe.

The Taylor's Gold pear can grow to be the largest of the pear varieties Frog Hollow tends to and like the Warren is smooth fleshed and equally well suited to eating fresh and baking. Taylor's Gold pears are harvested in early September and often available until December. 

September is the time to celebrate the fresh apple crop after months of apples coming out of cold storage. Galas are now being harvested out of the Sacramento Delta River and the San Joaquin Central Valley, less than 85 miles from San Francisco.

Beautiful deep purple seeded Concord grapes are highly aromatic.  We would even say they have a floral flavor. One bite and you are reminded of drinking a delicious glass of grape juice. That is because grape juice and grape jelly are made from Concord grapes!

Fresh dug fingerling new potatoes are now in season from Sunrise Organic Farm in Lompoc, California. New potatoes have not been cured, meaning that the skin is thin and delicate. New potatoes are often creamy and less starchy than more mature potatoes.