September will soon be here…and so will Empress Plums from Hale Groves! Empress Plums are pure, plummy perfection, but plum season is (alas) quite short, so you will want to make sure you don’t miss it. Also known as Italian Prune Plums, Empress Plums are less round than other plums…
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Continue ReadingWhat Goes Well with Plums? Have you been indulging your taste buds this summer with fresh, tangy-sweet plums? Plum season takes on new meaning in September, when Empress Plums are ready to eat! Empress Plums are the best plums when it comes to cooking (and eating fresh, too, but we…
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Continue ReadingFrom the Groves: The Empress plum tree is a very productive crop that bears a tasty, large, blue/violet fruit. This season we expect this delicious fruit to be firm, sweet, and juicy! The warm days and cool nights are promoting their color maturity and size. In the next month their…
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Continue ReadingDo you love getting citrus fruit from Hale Groves? Say hello to Hale Groves’ Citrus Trees, the perfect gift that keeps on giving, allowing you and your loved ones to grow your own! Imagine the joy of plucking juicy citrus right from your backyard – it’s a delightful touch of…
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Continue ReadingUh oh…you just realized you have way more fresh peaches than you can eat before they go off. We get it…your friends at Hale Groves totally get that peach mania can go to your head when peach season rolls around (especially when our Sweet Georgia Peaches, which are available for…
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Continue ReadingYou see them on our website in June and July (apricot season in the US takes place in late spring through late summer, though they peak earlier) or stacked next to the other stone fruits in the grocery store. But did you ever buy apricots? The size of a plum…
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Continue ReadingWhy, oh why does peach season have to be so short?? We at Hale Groves have done our best to extend it as long as possible, partnering with high-quality specialty growers that produce snackable, Florida-grown, Farm-Fresh Peaches starting in March, incomparably sweet and melting Georgia Peaches starting in early summer,…
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Continue ReadingCherry season is here! Some fruits are available year-round in one form or another, but sweet cherries, alas, are only available during late spring to mid-summer, with their peak happening in early summer. This is a shame, because sweet cherries (like the famous Bing Cherry) are so darn delicious –…
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Continue ReadingFrom the Groves: As you may have read in the news, many peach crops in Georgia were impacted by colder weather. At Hale Groves we were fortunate to have some later blooming crops that escaped Mother Nature’s fury and resulted in some of the finest, sweetest tasting peaches ever. Our delicious…
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Continue ReadingFor the first time, Hale Groves is bringing you Farm-Fresh Nectarines, a stone fruit that’s a close cousin of the summer peach. Fresh nectarines look almost identical to fresh peaches, only their red-and-gold skins are smooth instead of downy, and their flesh is a little bit firmer and has a…