Available now for pre-order at our Redwood City store Need a hostess gift? Impressing the in-laws? Our beautiful Thanksgiving centerpieces, made from locally  grown flowers and in-season produce, come in five different styles and range from $14.99 – $49.99. Call or email our flower department at our Redwood City store to place your order. All [...]

Summertime is melon time, so grab a sweet-smelling honeydew or cantaloupe from Sigona’s today and get ready for an explosion of sugary flavors! Sweet Local Orange flesh Honeydew with a Drizzle of Reduced Balsamic I really like this 2 minute recipe on a hot day. It’s quick, easy and refreshing. I really like to serve [...]

I honestly love this time of year. The weather is warm and fantastic every day, the San Francisco Giants are battling for first place and the first melons of the season are arriving in our stores. And let me just say this: they are tasting really, really good right now. We get our melons from [...]

One of life’s great pleasures is biting into a ripe, fresh and sweet piece of stone fruit. Whether it’s a peach, plum, apricot, nectarine or additional hybrid, local stone fruits are wonderful whether eaten out of hand or in a crisp salad. – Out of Hand OK, so maybe this isn’t exactly a recipe, but [...]

“You know how I stay cool all day on my tractor in 100-plus degree heat,” Paul Buxman asked me from his Sweet Home Ranch in Dinuba, CA just south of Fresno. “I place a towel under my hat and fill it full of ice every hour. The cold water just drips down onto my head [...]

Stone fruit should have a slight give if you want to eat them right away. Store them in the fridge if it’s breaking or ripe and they should last four or five days. If it’s firm then leave them on the counter for a day or two until ripe and ready to eat. For Diamond [...]

Getting corn from local farmers is great because it’s fresh. The sugars in corn start to convert to starch as soon as it’s picked, so corn is sweeter and more tender the fresher it is. Produce pros recommend leaving husks on the ears until you’re ready to cook, but we do offer the convenience of [...]

Ah, summer. Barbeques send swirls of mouth-watering scents through the air, kids run through sprinklers, you favorite fruits are now coming from local growers and iced tea is brewed in the summer sun. Speaking of barbeques, did you know you can cook almost anything on the grill? This includes corn on the cob. There is [...]