California Cantaloupe Farmers Begin Vaccinations for Essential Workforce
Thanks to the quick work of our cantaloupe farmers and packers, essential workers employed throughout the California cantaloupe industry were among some of the first front-line food workers to receive COVID vaccines in ...
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Thank a California Cantaloupe Farmworker
Thank a California Cantaloupe Farmworker
Once again, a successful California Cantaloupe season has just about come to an end. While we’ll miss having our favorite sunny, sweet and safe melon this Winter and Spring, it’s nice to know we can count on seeing them in stores once again come April.
Another ...
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Meet the Farmer: Matt Maring
Meet the Farmer: Matt Maring
Labels on boxes of melons grown by the Maring family mean so much more than just “Palm Tree Produce” translated in English. The Las Palmas Produce brand with an image of palm trees overlooking farm fields is deeply rooted in California agriculture.
Matt Maring is a ...
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The Story Behind the Widely Followed Westside Farmer, @JoeDelBosque
The Story Behind the Widely Followed Westside Farmer, @JoeDelBosque
Joe Del Bosque’s life in the melon industry began as a child picking melons alongside the field workers his dad managed. He didn’t know that one day he’d own those same fields.
Originally studying to be a dentist, Joe soon realized ...
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7 Reasons To Eat Cantaloupe All Summer Long
7 Reasons to Eat Cantaloupe All Summer Long
As the first of the early season California cantaloupe gets picked and packed and sent on its way to your local grocery store, we are rounding up seven [of the countless] reasons to eat cantaloupe all Summer long (and beyond!). With mere days until the ...
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California Cantaloupe 2017 Snapshot
2017: year in review
Two thousand seventeen, what a year!!
Starting on a sweet note, we made it easier than ever to Dig into the Sweet Stuff with a re-invention of the California cantaloupe e-newsletter which delivers - you guessed it - all the California cantaloupe things! This also included a ...
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Get to know your Growers
Get to know your Growers
With the sun having set on yet another great California cantaloupe season, we encourage you to take a moment to get to know the folks behind the fruit. Please allow us to introduce your California cantaloupe farmers; meet the families and discover the stories behind a few of the ...
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California Cantaloupe 2016 Snapshot
2016: year in review
Two thousand sixteen was another year for the books. We got better acquainted with the hard-working pollinators and California cantaloupe farmers who bring us scrumptious California cantaloupe year after year. The season was kicked off with a bang before the official ...
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Turlock Fruit Company: Fresh Cantaloupes Shipped to your Grocery Store
Turlock Fruit Company: Farm Fresh Cantaloupes Shipped Right to your Local Grocery Store
Who says that Farmers’ Markets are the only place you can get vine-ripened, hand-picked cantaloupe carefully grown and harvested by family farmers?
Turlock Fruit Company is one of California’s oldest commercial ...
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Pappas Family: Farming in the “Cantaloupe Center of the World”
Pappas Family: Farming in the "Cantaloupe Center of the World"
The sign as you enter the small Fresno County town of Mendota reads “Welcome to Mendota. Cantaloupe Center of the World.” And, while no one is quite sure how this particular community came to have such a distinguished title, ...
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