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Royal Riviera® Pears

We love this time of the year—Royal Riviera® Pears are here! An extraordinary amount of care and dedication goes into growing our premium pears, from tending the orchards year-round to pruning the trees at just the right time to picking and packing each precious pear by hand. All the hard work is worth it though, because we believe they’re simply the best pears around, and once you take that first sweet, juicy bite, we think you will, too.

NOW HAPPENING IN THE ORCHARDS

The challenging job of pruning our thousands of trees is coming to an end. With a few warm days in February, the leaves are beginning to bud in our peach and pear orchards. We will probably see the first peach blossoms late in the month. Once that happens, our orchard “frost teams” will go on full alert to respond if nighttime temperatures dip too low.

HARVEST INFORMATION

Citrus

Our featured citrus for March is Cara Cara oranges, which were first discovered growing in Venezuela’s Cara Cara Hacienda region in 1976. They are prized because they look like a navel orange on the outside but have a pinker flesh and a subtle berry-like nuance to its citrus tang. We will also be shipping Sumo® Citrus mandarins and Gold Nugget mandarins grown in California, navel oranges grown in Florida and California, and red grapefruit grown in Florida, Texas, and California. For the first two weeks of March we will be shipping HoneyBells grown in California.

Pears

We are shipping Royal Riviera® Pears grown in our Southern Oregon orchards and d’Anjou pears grown in Washington. Later in the month, we will begin shipping our Royal Verano® Pears, which in March and April will be Comice grown in Chile.

Apples

Our apple varieties this month will be Jazz, Envy, and Cosmic Crisp grown in Washington and Michigan.

Specialty Fruit

Our grower in Costa Rica let us know that the pineapples will reach their peak ripeness a bit early this year. Many of our Fruit-of-the-Month Club® customers will receive their April shipment a bit early, probably the last week of March.

Specialty Vegetables

Our featured vegetable this month is mixed winter radishes grown by The Chef’s Garden. We are proud to join forces with The Chef’s Garden for a selection of sustainably grown, restaurant-quality gourmet vegetables, including petite greens with edible flowers and Jerusalem artichokes. We will also ship avocados grown in Mexico and green tomatoes grown in California.

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