This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan the Produce Man brings you four outstanding spring items that are sure to get your attention.

First, we head into the tropical fruit world with the exotic and delicious longan.

Then it’s off to Watsonville, California for beautiful red Little Gem lettuce and fresh new crop sugar snap peas.

We also explain the difference between stringless and traditional sugar snap peas.

And while we’re talking peas, we dive into pea greens, tendrils, and shoots, and how to use those tender greens in the kitchen.

Finally, we wrap it up with the granddaddy of them all, Haden mangoes.

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This week on Fresh From the Field Fridays with Dan the Produce Man, we’re talking spring. Four items that are really shining right now.

Savoy or Bloomsdale spinach, fresh harvested English peas, young spring radishes, and new crop California blueberries.

Then we take a trip to the farmers market and catch up with Eric Arias of Castellano Farms out of Dinuba, California. He gives us an update on the upcoming stone fruit season, with fruit expected to hit the market mid-May.

It’s a crop update, and we’ll tell you what, the fruit is on the horizon, and it’s looking good.

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This week, we’re talking Gravenstein apples, a Sonoma County classic that is fading fast.

Up in the Yuba City area, peach orchards - gone!

At the same time, a whole wave of new fruit and berry varieties is coming your way.

And in the bigger picture, restaurants are closing left and right. What is really going on out there?

Plus, seasonal specialties like fiddlehead ferns and baby artichokes.

And a juicy strawberry romance story from Dan’s younger days.

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This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan the Produce Man dives into what this early spring heat wave here in California could be doing to the cherry crop, those blossoms still hanging on, and how it may impact early stone fruit still on the trees.

Then we head over to the produce table where he has purple snow peas, Padrón peppers, Ojai Pixie tangerines, jumbo heirloom artichokes, and red seedless Muscat grapes. Real springtime gems, good for your soul, good for your health, and flat-out enjoyable.

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This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan the Produce Man dives into St. Patrick’s Day cabbage—a classic that’s been showing up on produce stands and dinner tables for generations.

Then we take a trip over to the San Francisco Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, where we talk with growers about Gem and Zutano avocados and what makes those varieties special.

We also get into spring onions and the famous calcot onions—those sweet Spanish grilling onions grown using a special mounding technique that chefs love to roast over an open flame.

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This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, we’re getting into some late-season citrus with sour oranges and kumquats. We’ve also got mini sapotes on the table, the difference between Hawaiian ginger and Chinese ginger, California garlic versus Chinese garlic, Meyer lemons, and we’ll talk about what happened to all the California asparagus.

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This week on Fresh from the Field Fridays, Dan has King Oyster mushrooms on the produce table. Learn how you can turn these incredible mushrooms into vegan pulled pork and delicious tacos.

Also on the table is Dazzle variety sweet apples, Ataulfo mangoes, Kinnow mandarins, and three varieties of blood oranges to taste and compare.

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Join Ross the Produce Boss as he fills in for Dan with special guest Patrick Kelly to dive into the role of fresh produce in fueling athletes at the Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics.

Explore how Italian cuisine and seasonal fruits and veggies are powering peak performance, plus insider tips on what’s fresh and local this season. Tune in for fresh industry insights, Olympic highlights, and a celebration of produce in sport!