Treasured Heirloom Blenheim Apricots Available Now
Treasured Heirloom Blenheim Apricots Available Now Rich, complex-flavored Blenheims are a local gem with a fleeting and extremely short season. By Robbie Sigona Heirloom Blenheim...
Treasured Heirloom Blenheim Apricots Available Now Rich, complex-flavored Blenheims are a local gem with a fleeting and extremely short season. By Robbie Sigona Heirloom Blenheim...
Gourmet Strawberries & Cream Greek yogurt adds a creamy, near guilt-free element to this dish, which is sweetened with agave and our secret ingredient: balsamic...
Robbie Sigona’s Produce Tips: What’s New This week: We have in our famous, local Bing cherries from Andy Mariani’s orchard in Santa Clara Valley…just south...
Local Cherries Hitting the Shelves California cherries have been on the scene for a few weeks, but now is the time we show off our...
In the Kitchen with Sigona’s featuring Cherries Cherries are delicious eaten on their own, but they add new level of flavor to savory dishes and...
How to pick fresh Blue Lake Beans Carmelo Sigona tells you how to select and prepare fresh Blue Lake Beans (green beans). For example, look...
Come and get it: local corn is in season Shuck it, grill it, put it in a salsa — one of the summer favorites is...
In the Kitchen with Sigona’s featuring White Corn Fresh-picked corn lends itself to a corn-a-copia of delights…sorry, couldn’t resist! Whether on the cob or shaved...
Supporting Local Farmers Makes for Super Sweet Strawberries By Carmelo Sigona We’ve been keeping an especially close eye on the forecast. The weather lately has...
Cooking with Carmelo Sigona, Featuring Local Strawberries These sweet gems from George Chiala Farms in Morgan Hill, Calif. are picked and delivered to our store...
Carmelo Sigona emigrated in 1912 from Sicily, bringing with him the tradition of making his own wine. His grandson and namesake, Carmelo Sigona, co-owner of Sigona's Farmers Market, has fond memories of his grandfather making wine and serving it at family meals on Sundays. After years of wanting to make his own wine just like Grandpa Sigona, present-day Carmelo has finally made his dreams come true. Tune in for more.
Nothing is more rewarding to Rob Sigona, our passionate produce buyer, than taking a road trip to visit one of Sigona's favorite farmers. About a five hour drive from the Bay Area, nestled in the Sierra Nevada foothills, is the town of Springville. There you will find a place seemingly untouched by time; a place called home to orange grower Ron Matik of Pleasant Oaks Ranch. Since 1984 Ron has grown some of the best heirloom navel oranges in the state, if not the world: the heirloom Washington Navel. "I have yet to taste an orange that is better than ours,” says Matik. “Maybe some with the same sweetness, but never better.” And Sigona's agrees! Heirloom Washington Navels are the variety that got the whole California citrus market booming all those years ago. It takes special attention from the farmer to tend to the soil and the variety to produce such outstanding fruit. "Small farmers, such as Ron, are a dwindling breed,” says Rob Sigona. “They’re passionate caretakers of the the land that produce exceptional quality; they are the rare gems." It is an achievement to find such great tasting oranges to bring in for our customers. We are excited to announce we’ll get a load of specially picked and packed heirloom Washington Navels in our store this week, delivered directly from Pleasant Oaks Ranch. So, come on by Sigona's to enjoy a slice of California’s prized history…for FREE! You can get a bag of free Pleasant Oaks Ranch oranges starting today through March 5th with your coupon when you spend $30 or more in the store.