Covilli became Fair Trade Certified in December 2015. They are the first and only 100% Organic and 100% Fair Trade company in North America. Since December 2015 Covilli has sold over 29 million pounds of Fair Trade product! Thank you for voting with your dollars and contributing to the Fair Trade Premium. With those funds Covilli’s workers have completed 4 community projects and have another 3 in the works.

An intense heat wave is coming over the Labor weekend and into Labor Day week. Temperatures will reach over 105 degrees in many growing regions including Salinas Valley and Bakersfield. The heat affects our food production, putting not only the plants and fruit at risk but the people harvesting our food.

Passion Fruit are ripe and ready to eat when they start to wrinkle. Cut in half, scoop out and eat the pulp and seeds! Pairs well with smooth and buttery California Keitt mangos.

Bob Steinacher has been growing Figs at Maywood Farm since the late 80’s. With financial support of his family, Bob left his home in the Bay Area to set out and be a farmer. Land was affordable in Corning and the local farm advisor board was looking for someone to come in and grow figs. So, figs it was! 

California mango season starts with the Esquire Mango. With a subtly sweet flavor, the Esquire is the first variety coming out of the short season in California's Salton Sea area!

The first of the locally grown California Bartletts are now coming out of the Sacramento and Stockton River Delta region where the hot days and the cool nights are needed to develop its sweet, juicy and delicious flavor.

The second crop of figs have the rich honey sweetness we associate with delicious figs. Figs love the hot days and warm nights and are grown mainly in the central valley around the Fresno/Madera area to up north of Sacramento in Corning.

We are coming to the end of the California peach season and the transition from early season peaches, to late harvest peaches.  They are lower in moisture and less juicy than early varieties but they are full of flavor.

Nam Doc Mai (translates to sweet nectar of the blossom) is a Thai Cultivar and Thailand’s best known dessert mango. One of the world’s most coveted mangos and the mango best used in Thailand’s Famous Dish-Mango with Sticky Rice.