Gaarde Foodsource & Service

Well, that could come in handy! Good ideas on slicing grapes and pitting cherries.

Russ, John and Carrie grafting a new peach variety in our trial block! #grafting #peach #newpeachvariety #aglife

Blueberries in Reedley, CA. These satisfyingly luscious flavored blueberries will be ripe and ready by April 10th!

Have you tried any of these??

A Variety of Fruits is a blog created by our friends Wil and Mariska Lemmer, whom we first met when they were living in South Africa. They subsequently moved to Hermosillo and then on to Spain. Wil and Mariska are indeed global fruit aficionados!! We hope you enjoy this. http://avarietyoffruits.com/2016/02/26/pitaya/

Great to see good friends and business associates at the AFFI in San Diego!!! Eric Gaarde with Lynn Prentice of Materne NA (GoGo squeeZ) and Doug Field with Excel Fruit Brokerage

Happy Friday everyone! Here is a photo of our varietal analyst, Carrie Schellenberg, inspecting bloom on an early-ripening experimental canning peach variety

Did you know peaches used to look more like cherries? Crazy!

This fun recipe makes all of us here at Gaarde Foodsource love peaches even more! #peaches #whitewine #greatmixure #halfwaythroughtheweektreat http://www.dessertfortwo.com/2014/07/peach-wine-slushies/

Great trip to Pennsylvania and New Jersey last week! I am especially indebted to Lee Showalter (Grower Services/Food Saftey Manager at Rice Fruit, Gardners, PA) and Hemant Gohil (Agricultural Extension Agent at Rutgers Agriculture Experiment Station, Clayton, NJ) for their tremendous hospitality and friendship.(Eric Gaarde)

Wishing our beloved faithful leader, Eric Gaarde, good luck as he speaks at the Mid-Atlantic Fruit and Vegetable Conference! We all know you will do great! #fruitandvegetableconference2016 http://www.mafvc.org/