Robbie’s Produce Tips: Yellow Peaches
Choose peaches that have a nice yellow background and aren’t too green. Turn your peach over and look at the stem end for ripeness. Peaches...
Choose peaches that have a nice yellow background and aren’t too green. Turn your peach over and look at the stem end for ripeness. Peaches...
Nectarine-Banana-Mango Smoothie Smoothies are great because they’re easy for breakfast or just a simple snack. Serves 1-2. Ingredients: 1 cup chopped fresh nectarine One large...
Seared Chicken Salad with Green Beans, Almonds and Fresh Bing Cherries What a great way to incorporate some local, fresh summer produce! With the chicken,...
The temperatures are rising and summer is right around the corner. Fortunately, that means that fruits like nectarines and peaches are ripening and becoming abundant...
“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...
Seek a background color that’s yellowish-orange and not green. I always turn my nectarines over and check the stem end. Give ’em a smell the...
Strawberry & Spinach Salad with a Simple Strawberry Balsamic Vinaigrette This super simple salad certainly does not lack in flavor. The tang from the strawberry...
If you like strawberries, you are in good company as they are the most popular berries throughout the world. Strawberries, harbingers of summer, are now...
Shelling & Preparing Fresh Fava Bean Shell the beans by opening the pod at the seam (if you snap off the end it’s easier to...
Considered one of the tastiest of the beans, fava beans have been consumed for over 6000 years. Although they require more preparation than most other...
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.