Dates are a desert crop, and people hear “desert” and assume that means the trees barely drink. The opposite is true: a producing date palm is one of the thirstiest fru
Open two boxes of Medjools from the same farm, same season, even the same variety — and you’ll sometimes find one batch runs noticeably plumper than the other. Most people
Buy a date palm today and you’ll hit a fork in the road almost nobody explains clearly: is the tree you’re getting a dug offshoot from a real mother palm, or a lab-grow
Dates are among the most mineral-dense fruits on earth — USDA numbers for potassium, copper, magnesium and more, plus the honest story of the mineral aquifer water our California
Field notes from a working Coachella Valley orchard plus articles drawn from a private library of rare date-palm research — tissue culture, offshoots, metaxenia, irrigation, and
Maamoul are the date-stuffed semolina cookies of Eid, Easter and holiday tables across the Levant. A date farmer's recipe — starting with filling worth the dough.
"Black dates" means several different fruits — Safawi, Ajwa, dark-cured Khadrawy, Arizona's Black Sphinx, and a few market names. A California farmer sorts the dark-date family o
Red dates (jujubes) and Medjool dates are completely different fruits from unrelated trees. A date farmer untangles the two — flavor, uses, nutrition, and which one your recipe m
Khajoor (کھجور / खजूर) is the date — and the fresh, soft khajoor of childhood memory is exactly what a California date farm ships. Varieties, chuhara vs fresh, and b
Ajwa is the revered black date of Madinah — and no, we don't grow it. An honest comparison with Medjool from a California date farm, with respect for what makes Ajwa singular.