At Frog Hole Farm, the arrival of spring means one factor: an abundance of fruit rising all through our orchards.
Our prime season begins with flowering and aromatic bushes, that are a precursor of all of the delights to return. This picturesque sight units the stage for our calendar of spring fruits, beginning with mulberries and progressing via our beloved stone fruits.
Over these months, you may spot our cherries, pink, shiny and plump, and apricots with their golden hues flecked with pink. These ultimately give solution to peaches: extremely candy and eat-over-the-sink juicy.
Whether or not you take part in our CSA, need to order a field because the season begins or have deliberate out your pre-orders, our information offers an outline of all spring fruits in season, and what to anticipate as they arrive.
Schedule of Spring Fruits in Season
Following the rising season in California, we see blueberries emerge in late March/early April. In Might, the spring fruit season begins in earnest with cherries, apricots and mulberries ripening to candy perfection. In Might, we encourage you to get to know our tender, velvety and succulent apricots; they are a notable departure from the underwhelming and mealy varieties most discover on the grocery retailer. Our orchards additionally develop apriums – a hybrid between a plum and apricot that fuses their tartness and honeyed sweetness for advanced and layered taste.
As we head into summer time, June marks the beginning of nectarine season, in addition to when plums and pluots make their first look. Peaches additionally change into a relentless as the times get longer and hotter.
For a whole schedule of spring fruits, take a look at our full seasonal calendar.
Our Spring Fruits
Mulberries
Shipped frozen, mulberries are extremely fragrant and with a deep candy taste and little or no acid. They’re tantalizing all on their very own as a snack or to invigorate your morning smoothie. On account of their excessive sugar content material, frozen mulberries do not clump collectively. Essentially the most delicate fruit we develop, mulberries are full of vitamins like vitamin C, fiber and iron.
Blueberries
Although we do not develop blueberries, we have partnered with California’s premium blueberry growers to ship plump, lush and agency berries that burst with taste.
Apricots
Signing up for our recent fruit subscription packing containers, like our Farm Field Membership, will introduce you to lots of the forms of apricots we develop throughout apricot season. Our Gotta Have My Apricots fruit membership delivers 4 varieties for a sampling of simply how numerous – and significantly juicy – these stone fruits will be.
Apricots profit from our area’s distinctive rising circumstances – with days of heat sunshine adopted by cool night time breezes from the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. What you may style is an extremely succulent and wealthy fruit, with a palette of flavors that evolves throughout the harvest as every selection expresses its distinctive taste profile.
Our apricot season encompasses 13 forms of apricots and apriums, from the early-season Kettleman, a firm-fleshed apricot with a basic candy and tangy taste, to the late-season Goshen Gold, recognized for its unimaginable sweetness and tender juicy flesh. Each selection we develop is a delight to the senses!
Cherries
As soon as cherries are in season, everybody needs a field! Whereas their transient harvest season will increase demand, our orchards introduce a cornucopia of flavors in a comparatively brief timeframe. Wealthy, candy and aromatic, cherries are the spring’s most coveted fruit.
Discover the attractive deep pink Royal Tioga, an early-season cherry recognized for its glorious stability of sweetness and acidity; Brooks, a big, plump and darkish pink fruit that’s often featured in Alice Waters’ copper fruit bowl; Rainier, with a golden-blush pores and skin and flesh with floral notes and delicate sweetness; Bing, the quintessential darkish pink cherry with a daring, wealthy taste; and Stella, closing out our season with its deep pink flesh.
Plums
For the right plum, agency pores and skin provides into juicy and tender flesh. Our plums and pluots run with these expectations. In a single path, biting into our early season Santa Rosa reveals tender, juicy amber flesh flippantly flushed with a hoop of pink. Our late summer time Emerald Beaut, then again, has delicate inexperienced pores and skin that turns golden with a touch of blush and delivers a firmer, nearly crips flesh with a rounded sweetness. Plums & pluots are usually can be found beginning in early June and are harvested via September.
A fuzz-less peach, our nectarines have agency flesh with a meltingly juicy mouthfeel and a tangy to candy taste profile, relying on the range. Our white nectarines are fragrant and have an unimaginable sweetness whereas lots of our yellow varieties dance between candy and tangy with loads of sugar content material and acid to stability the sweetness.
Nectarines are usually obtainable beginning in mid-June and are harvested via August.
Peaches
Whereas we usually take into account peaches a summertime delight, their season formally kicks off in spring with early-season varieties like Princess Time and Galaxy harvested in Might.
Whether or not eaten out of hand, sliced for a salad or baked, our peaches are a very succulent and memorable expertise: Together with your first chunk, the candy nectar of the juicy flesh has been recognized to run down your hand and make you run to complete your peach over the closest sink!
Testifying to this stone fruit’s expansive prospects, our orchards develop over 20 varieties spanning yellow and white peaches, in addition to freestone and clingstone varieties. Our Galaxy White peaches are the one donut peach we develop and will be pre-ordered upfront of harvest. Our Gotta Have My Peaches and Weekly Farm Field fruit golf equipment showcase a number of varieties spanning our peach season. And our fruit subscription field, the Farm Field Membership, delivers blended fruit, together with peaches, all through the rising season.
Ordering Contemporary Fruit Subscription Containers for Spring
Style how fruit actually ought to style – candy but with depth, the right texture and a layered palette of tasting notes and flavors.
Whilst you can order a field of any of our fruits throughout the harvest season or as a pre-order, our natural fruit golf equipment hold tempo with the harvest. Relying on the fruit membership you select, you may obtain fruit weekly, month-to-month or at a staggered cadence all through the spring and summer time season.
On account of demand, many choose to pre-order their spring and summer time fruit golf equipment to make sure they obtain the particular fruits they need, whereas others go for our recent fruit subscription Farm Field membership, and handle their subscription cadence to suit their schedules. Our fruit golf equipment ship primarily based on fruit availability – perceive that colder climate might delay our estimated harvest home windows. We ship primarily based on when the fruit is prepared for harvest. We wait till our fruit totally ripens, verify the sugar content material to make sure its taste, and choose the harvest by hand, all earlier than transport a field on to you!
For pre-orders and fruit golf equipment:
- You may choose from one sort of fruit or have the choice to strive a number of varieties via our Decide of the Crop Membership, Frog Hole Favorites or the Month-to-month Cornucopia of California field.
- You may choose from a three-, five- or 10-pound field in your orders.
Able to have a provide of fruit delivered to your door – 48 hours after being picked from the bushes? Join any of our fruit golf equipment, subscribe to our Farm Field Membership or pre-order your entire spring favorites now!
