GO BEYOND FOUR SEASONS
Each fruit and vegetable has its own season, with subtle shifts that happen every day. Follow their microseasons to unlock flavor at every stage.
In season today
These are the first harvests of a variety. Not yet available in abundance or fully developed, this is the time to get inspired by new flavor combinations.
Bi-Color Sweet Corn
Grower
Jake
Location
Kinderhook, New York
Seasonality
July - October
Black Mission Figs
Bull's Horn Peppers
Chanterelle Mushrooms
Chervil
Fairytale Eggplant
Flowering Cilantro
Flowering Dill
Green Kale
Habanada Peppers
Husk Cherries
Kyoho Grapes
Lemon Balm
New Potatoes - Natascha Gold
Purple Basil
Shiso
Spigarello Riccia
Tendersweet Cabbage
Thai Basil
Thomcord Grapes
Yellow Romano Beans
Featured This Week
SEPTEMBER 2ND
EARLY
Asian Pears
Grown by Ruth and Joel in Coopersberg, Pennsylvania
The much anticipated season for Asian Pears has begun in Pennsylvania. Joel and Ruth rotate through many varieties, each coming into season for short windows with subtle flavor differences, allowing the overall season of Asian Pears to last up to six months. Right now, the first of their varieties, Asaju, is available. Expect a light, thin yellow skin and crisp texture with honeydew melon and plum notes.
They tend their orchards entirely by hand, turning every pear across the season for ideal and even coloration by the sun. Before picking, they inspect the fruit's skin, feeling the texture to confirm it has reached full ripeness. It's the rigorous pruning that takes flavor to the next level. Some orchards would produce up to 800 fruits per tree, but these trees produce only 75, meaning that sugars and nutrients are concentrated into fewer pears.
PEAK
Shiso
Grown by Bradley & Cathy in Middletown, New York
Bradley and Cathy's Shiso, along with their full lineup of herbs: Purple Basil, Purslane, and Lemon Balm, are abundant right now. They plant them in succession to have a steady supply throughout the summer. This batch is growing particularly well due to slightly cooler temperatures.
We visited them in July and saw firsthand how their growing methods embrace the natural world surrounding them rather than fight it. This means that weeds and wild plants grow in abundance alongside their plants, eliminating any chemical use and encouraging beneficial insects and soil health.
LATE
Honey Moon Melons
Grown by Oscar in Mantua, Italy.
With his Delica Pumpkins in cure for a September start, we're looking at another two weeks of Oscar's Sun Sweet and Honey Moon Melons. Still displaying their characteristic aromatic sweetness, Oscar puts as much care into these last weeks of the season as he does at peak stages of harvest. And it's been a challenging time for him.
His latest harvest of Sun Sweet Melons was damaged by a hail storm, meaning we're looking at a week gap between successions. Fortunately, his Honey Moons were unaffected as he intentionally spaces his melon crops across different areas to prevent such instances from destroying all his plants. In September, he'll grow the melons in tunnels, further protecting them from storms and rain that would bloat them, diluting the flavor. Without easy access to water, the melons work harder to draw up nutrients from the ground, concentrating their flavor in soft, dense flesh.
It's rare to find a grower this obsessed with flavor. Oscar's commitment is evident in all his crops, from his Sun Sweet and Honey Moon Melons to his autumnal Delica Pumpkins, which he takes to another level by curing, a technique no longer widely seen due to the extra effort involved.
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Go beyond four seasons
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