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Wednesday, June 22, 2011
Monday, June 13, 2011
Friday, June 3, 2011
Next Week: Onions, Bells & Organics
Jeff's Field Update ~
Watermelon Buyers:
We're opening new field Monday in Coachella; We have availability with big sizes red seedless in lush big vines extra Sweet and cutting Red!!!!
Annie's Organic Watermelon program starts on Monday in Brawley, California. All sizes of Red Seedless with Organic stickers and Docs; when I visited the field a couple of weeks ago the vines were lush and green.
Onions in Bakersfield are now drying and curing in the burlap on the Home-Ranch...the sweet reds and sweet yellow/brown onions are diamonds with the cooool weather and uniform temperatures...the regular whites, reds and yellow-browns will all start next week..Call Onion-Jack for your needs.
Bell Peppers will also start mid-week next week for Pepper-Karen...she's ready to take your orders...demand seems very strong!...Quality Exceptional!!! Sooooo cooool temps this growing season!!! Still picking Green and Red Cabbage on the Bear Mt. Ranch here in Bakersfield....load all of these items on the same truck.
Thank You for Supporting the American Grower!!!
Jeff Thomson and Family
Watermelon Buyers:
We're opening new field Monday in Coachella; We have availability with big sizes red seedless in lush big vines extra Sweet and cutting Red!!!!
Annie's Organic Watermelon program starts on Monday in Brawley, California. All sizes of Red Seedless with Organic stickers and Docs; when I visited the field a couple of weeks ago the vines were lush and green.
Onions in Bakersfield are now drying and curing in the burlap on the Home-Ranch...the sweet reds and sweet yellow/brown onions are diamonds with the cooool weather and uniform temperatures...the regular whites, reds and yellow-browns will all start next week..Call Onion-Jack for your needs.
Bell Peppers will also start mid-week next week for Pepper-Karen...she's ready to take your orders...demand seems very strong!...Quality Exceptional!!! Sooooo cooool temps this growing season!!! Still picking Green and Red Cabbage on the Bear Mt. Ranch here in Bakersfield....load all of these items on the same truck.
Thank You for Supporting the American Grower!!!
Jeff Thomson and Family
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Crop Upade ~ Jeff's Field Report
Watermelon Buyers:
The Watermelon Market is now very steady with undertones to improve; many fields in Coachella and the south Desert are now done or burned badly from the intense Sun on 5/31/11. Mexico crop production is winding down per Market News and it has variable fruit quality...last call this week if you have Yellow Flesh needs and get your calls in early for Red Seedless as we almost sold-out today even on a Wed.
Thank You for Your Support,
Jeff Thomson and Family
Coming Soon:
ORGANICS JUNE 6th
ONIONS: JUNE 6th
BELL PEPPERS: JUNE 6th
The Watermelon Market is now very steady with undertones to improve; many fields in Coachella and the south Desert are now done or burned badly from the intense Sun on 5/31/11. Mexico crop production is winding down per Market News and it has variable fruit quality...last call this week if you have Yellow Flesh needs and get your calls in early for Red Seedless as we almost sold-out today even on a Wed.
Thank You for Your Support,
Jeff Thomson and Family
Coming Soon:
ORGANICS JUNE 6th
ONIONS: JUNE 6th
BELL PEPPERS: JUNE 6th
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
We're Shipping from Two Locations
Buyers: We will be shipping from Coachella, California as well as our facility in Bakersfield, California. Please contact Jeff or Annie to place an order!
We are also shipping our Red and Green Cabbage from Bakersfield. Please contact Karen to place an order.
Thank you!
We are also shipping our Red and Green Cabbage from Bakersfield. Please contact Karen to place an order.
Thank you!
Thursday, May 12, 2011
Jeff's Field Report ~
Watermelon Buyers:
We have decided to bring Coachella Watermelons down to the price of growing, packing,and selling them. Mexico is exporting large quantities at this time and will expand/increase USA and Canadian consumption and provide the consumers in North America a rare chance to buy watermelons with no-cost for growing them. Go-on-add with this product and clean these up!!! Let me know if Team Thomson can set up an order of new-crop California watermelons for your truck and/or we can deliver some Red Flesh, Yellow Flesh or Regular Seeded to your dock...
Thank You for Your Support,
C. Jeff Thomson.
We have decided to bring Coachella Watermelons down to the price of growing, packing,and selling them. Mexico is exporting large quantities at this time and will expand/increase USA and Canadian consumption and provide the consumers in North America a rare chance to buy watermelons with no-cost for growing them. Go-on-add with this product and clean these up!!! Let me know if Team Thomson can set up an order of new-crop California watermelons for your truck and/or we can deliver some Red Flesh, Yellow Flesh or Regular Seeded to your dock...
Thank You for Your Support,
C. Jeff Thomson.
Friday, May 6, 2011
A Closer Look at Our Cabbage
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| Our Red and Green Cabbage in our field in May |
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| Green Cabbage |
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| A head of Green Cabbage before Harvest |
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| Red Cabbage |
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| Red Cabbage ready for Harvest |
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| Rows of Green Cabbage |
Thursday, May 5, 2011
Want to Stay Healthy? Eat Cabbage!
Health Benefits of Cabbage :
1.Cabbage contain phytonutrients, works to protect the body from free radicals that can damage the cell membranes. Phytonutrients also signal our genes to increase its production of enzymes involved in detoxification.
2.Cabbage may lower the incidence of cancer, especially in the lung, stomach and colon prostate.
3.Cabbage is a muscle builder, blood cleanser and eye strengthener.
4.The juice of fresh raw cabbage has been proven to heal stomach ulcer.
5.Cabbage is rich in iron and sulfur.
6.Juice of fresh cabbage is effective in treating fungus infection (due to it sulfur content).
7.Cabbage can lower serum cholesterol.
8.Cabbage contain Sulforaphane, a substance that can increase the production of antioxidant and detoxification enzymes. Sulforaphane works by stimulating the production of glutathione, the body's most important internally produced antioxidant which plays a role in liver detoxification.
9.Red Cabbage has more phytonutrients than the green cabbage. The vitamin C content of red cabbage is 6-8 times higher than that of the green cabbage.
10.Red cabbage contain anthocyanin (red pigment/color) is an antioxidant that can help protect brain cells, thus can help prevent Alzheimer's disease.
1.Cabbage contain phytonutrients, works to protect the body from free radicals that can damage the cell membranes. Phytonutrients also signal our genes to increase its production of enzymes involved in detoxification.
2.Cabbage may lower the incidence of cancer, especially in the lung, stomach and colon prostate.
3.Cabbage is a muscle builder, blood cleanser and eye strengthener.
4.The juice of fresh raw cabbage has been proven to heal stomach ulcer.
5.Cabbage is rich in iron and sulfur.
6.Juice of fresh cabbage is effective in treating fungus infection (due to it sulfur content).
7.Cabbage can lower serum cholesterol.
8.Cabbage contain Sulforaphane, a substance that can increase the production of antioxidant and detoxification enzymes. Sulforaphane works by stimulating the production of glutathione, the body's most important internally produced antioxidant which plays a role in liver detoxification.
9.Red Cabbage has more phytonutrients than the green cabbage. The vitamin C content of red cabbage is 6-8 times higher than that of the green cabbage.
10.Red cabbage contain anthocyanin (red pigment/color) is an antioxidant that can help protect brain cells, thus can help prevent Alzheimer's disease.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Spring Cabbage!
Excellent quality green and red cabbage now shipping from Bakersfield, CA. We have Regular 24 count, Jumbo 18 count and XJumbo 12 count supplies.
Announcing that we will start shipping Red Seedless, Regular Seeded and Yellow Flesh Watermelons out of Coachella, CA on May 9th.
Call for details!
Announcing that we will start shipping Red Seedless, Regular Seeded and Yellow Flesh Watermelons out of Coachella, CA on May 9th.
Call for details!
Friday, April 8, 2011
Jeff's Growing Update
Watermelon Buyers: Our Red Seedless Watermelons, Regular Seeded and Yellow Flesh Watermelons are doing very well in our fields in Coachella Valley east of Los Angeles. The warm days and warm nights really produce rapid growth; at times, I have measured the melons growing 2 inches in a 24 hour period. Our Harvest Contractor indicates with normal weather we should be harvesting the earliest melons the first week of May. Right now the Watermelons are the size of a Softball (see pics) We have an Organic Watermelon field this year in the Imperial Valley we will harvest a few weeks later than our early Coachella fields. Keep in Touch, Jeff Thomson Watermelon Category Mgr.
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Top 10 Fruits With the Most Nutritional Bang for Your Buck
Jennifer Langston jokes that her 2-year-old eats fruit like a bat, so that helped propel her to come up with nifty calculations on which fruits bring the most nutritional bang for your buck.
If you want to watch your budget and also buy fruits that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the choices that offer the best combination of those factors, says Langston, a researcher, editor and writer at Sightline Institute, a nonprofit sustainability think tank, who developed the rankings with her co-worker Eric Hess.
Here are their rankings of the best, cheapest fruits to get your vitamins from:
1.Watermelon
2.Plums
3.Oranges
4.Apples
5.Strawberries
6.Cantaloupe
7.Grapefruit
8.Bananas
9.Kiwi
10.Peaches
So if you want to spend only so much money on fruit, go with watermelon, plums, oranges and apples to get the most nutrition for relatively little dough.
Everyone knows berries are great sources of vitamins, but they rank low on this chart because they're pricey. This chart emphasizes both low cost and nutrition.
Here's how Langston and Hess came up with these rankings: They tracked down the price-per-cup of various fruits, as revealed in a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They also got the nutritional scores for various fruits, as determined by the ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) rating method used by the Whole Foods chain and others. They then divided each fruit's ANDI score by its price per cup.
Bottom line: It's not enough to just buy the cheapest fruit; try buying the cheapest fruit offering the best nutrition for the price.
How cheap a food is alone is not always the best measure of value, Langston tells Consumer Ally. You may very well prefer to buy an apple (ranked No. 4) grown in the neighboring countryside instead of a banana (No. 8) shipped from afar. "Cheap food," Langston says, "is probably one of the problems of the food system."
reference:
http://www.walletpop.com/2011/03/07/top-10-fruits-with-the-most-nutrition-for-your-buck/?a_dgi=aolshare_email
If you want to watch your budget and also buy fruits that provide pretty good nutrition, below are the choices that offer the best combination of those factors, says Langston, a researcher, editor and writer at Sightline Institute, a nonprofit sustainability think tank, who developed the rankings with her co-worker Eric Hess.
Here are their rankings of the best, cheapest fruits to get your vitamins from:
1.Watermelon
2.Plums
3.Oranges
4.Apples
5.Strawberries
6.Cantaloupe
7.Grapefruit
8.Bananas
9.Kiwi
10.Peaches
So if you want to spend only so much money on fruit, go with watermelon, plums, oranges and apples to get the most nutrition for relatively little dough.
Everyone knows berries are great sources of vitamins, but they rank low on this chart because they're pricey. This chart emphasizes both low cost and nutrition.
Here's how Langston and Hess came up with these rankings: They tracked down the price-per-cup of various fruits, as revealed in a new report by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They also got the nutritional scores for various fruits, as determined by the ANDI (Aggregate Nutrient Density Index) rating method used by the Whole Foods chain and others. They then divided each fruit's ANDI score by its price per cup.
Bottom line: It's not enough to just buy the cheapest fruit; try buying the cheapest fruit offering the best nutrition for the price.
How cheap a food is alone is not always the best measure of value, Langston tells Consumer Ally. You may very well prefer to buy an apple (ranked No. 4) grown in the neighboring countryside instead of a banana (No. 8) shipped from afar. "Cheap food," Langston says, "is probably one of the problems of the food system."
reference:
http://www.walletpop.com/2011/03/07/top-10-fruits-with-the-most-nutrition-for-your-buck/?a_dgi=aolshare_email
Monday, January 10, 2011
January Harvest Update
Greetings Buyers:
We just started harvesting Red, Purple & Yellow Potatoes
Call Matt Hornbuckle: 661.303.0205
For Green Cabbage, Red Cabbage, Bok Choy, Napa Cabbage and Turnips
Call Karen Thomson: 310.372.0177
For Acorn Squash and Onions
Call Annie Thomson: 415.699.7204
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