Crops

This fruit has a soft, fuzzy like skin with a firm, juicy flesh and pit in the center. They are cholesterol and sodium free and are a good source of Vitamin C. Our peaches come from farmers throughout Northern California near Yuba City who specialize in growing the yellow cling variety because their firmer texture is ideal for the canning process. Due to their soft nature, peaches are primarily picked by hand – making the process labor and time intensive. Harvest season typically begins in the summer months of June or July and continues until the end of September.

Grown Conventional and Organic

Tomatoes are typically round, deep red in color, and grow from a low bush like plant in a field. They are low fat, a good source of potassium, high in vitamin C, and thanks to the canning process have an increased bioavailability of the super antioxidant lycopene. Each year plants begin as a seed in a greenhouse, are transferred to the ground when the seedlings are roughly 7-9″ tall and continue to develop in the field to full maturation until harvest in the summer. Our farmers are located in Woodland, CA and near Los Banos, CA and grow over 100 different varieties that are specifically chosen for the canning process. 95% of our tomatoes are grown within a 17-mile radius of our Woodland cannery.

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Grown Conventional and Organic

Grapes are grown in bunches or clusters that hang off of a vine. The cocktail grape our growers farm is Thompson Seedless, which is firm on the outside, sweet on the inside, and green in color. Our growers specialize in growing cocktail grapes which are used for our fruit cocktail and fruit mix items. Grapes are tested for their brix level, the natural sugar content, to determine when they are ready for harvest. They are typically harvested late July, early August by manually removing them from the vine using grape clippers for transportation to the facility.