Farmer Margie just got back from dropping off 30 bushels of her certified organic Donnie avocados at the area Whole Foods warehouse. Look for her fruit in South Florida stores starting this Thursday. If you don’t see them, ask the produce manager to get them for you. Here’s a picture of a Donnie that I [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Local fruit at Whole Foods
Posted in fruits, market, photo, tagged avocado, lychee on July 20, 2010 | 6 Comments »
Winter melon for summer
Posted in food, photo, recipe, tagged C&B Farms, winter melon on July 17, 2010 |
One of the more unusual offerings at the Bee Heaven Farm summer fruit sales has been winter melon, also known as wax gourd. It’s called that because of the white, waxy coating on its green skin. A few weeks ago, I rode up with Farmer Margie to fetch them from C&B Farms up in Clewiston. [...]

