Visit Our Other Sites
Regarding COVID-19: California Giant is working hard to make every effort to ensure the health and safety of our colleagues and coworkers, while maintaining SAFE business and supply continuity of fresh berries to our customers. All areas of our supply chain continues to emphasize thorough sanitation practices and social distancing protocols. Thank you for being a valued customer of California Giant - We are all in this together!
Blueberries
Oregon:
We’ve got the blues! While growers anticipate the production curve to begin slowly trending down, the volumes being harvested and packed continue and in noteworthy amounts – with no indication of it slowing down soon. Overall, quality looks good. The last of the Duke has been picked, and the mid-season varieties: Draper, Blue Ribbon, Legacy and Megasblue are starting to come in and looking nice. Great size and good bloom.
British Columbia:
While harvest began this last week, growers are expecting an overall reduction of 30-40% compared to last year’s volume. This is due to intermittent weather patterns, labor shortages, and fair to poor quality to start the season.
Strawberries
Watsonville- Salinas:
Conventional and organic quality is good due to mild weather the past week. Fruit is firm with only occasional dark fruit. We anticipate volumes to slowly increase in the coming weeks. Labor is still tight but ranches are able to keep up due to the cooler weather and lower volumes. Some ranches are starting to work the ground in preparation for next year. Conventional Counts: 18-22. Organic Counts: 26-28 (30).
Santa Maria:
Growers are seeing major improvements in fruit quality. Much less bruising and the bronzing is gone; the packs are clean and look great. Fall crop new plantings look good and have been de-blossomed. All of these plants are looking healthy and vigorous - a good sign of the upcoming crop that is expected to start mid-August. Organic fruit quality continues to improve with cooler temperatures. Some full red fruit that is firm, with much less bruising than we’ve been seeing. Conventional Counts: 18-22. Organic Counts: 24-26.
Raspberries
Watsonville-Salinas:
The Kwanza variety harvest has started and is looking good with light color and good size.
Blackberries
Watsonville-Salinas:
Harvest of the Ouachita variety is ending, and Prime Ark is starting with good quality and only occasional red cell.
Santa Maria:
Blackberries are looking good. There’s a nice flower set and a good amount of green fruit in the field. Quality is strong, with a couple red celled berries around but nothing excessive. Fruit is firm, and flavor is good.
For up-to-date weather conditions in all of our growing regions, click on the region below. Wunderground.com is our go-to weather resource for fast and reliable weather updates.
Summer isn't over yet. It's just heating up! Cool down with these refreshing treats and chill recipes.
A berry sweet message from a BJ's shopper:
"I just wanted you to know these are the best strawberries I can ever remember eating. They are uniformly ripe, sweet and just perfect. Just wanted to let you know. WOW."
Below are our iBotta and Destini blueberry coupons. Our iBotta coupon is $0.35 off your purchase AND the opportunity to enter the Sip, Chill, & Repeat promotion. The Destini blueberry coupon is $1 off your blueberry purchase.
