The Medjhool date is a Queen among dates, one of the largest (2-3 bites, 17-20 to the pound), and one of the sweetest of all our fruit... Medjhools also have a softer texture than most. Easy to prepare, a plate of halved dates stuffed with a nut or cream cheese makes an elegant addition to the desert table. Our 2009 harvest began 9/16/09, with softer fruit, and we will continue picking into October, with firmer fruit later in the season. Our 2-lb. boxes have softer and medium fruit; our 15-lb. cases have firmer dates on the bottom layers, softer dates on the top.
Of 3,000 varieties of dates grown world-wide, Medjhools are one of the most desirable, because of large size, soft fruit texture, flavor, and beauty. All medjhool palms in the U.S. originate from a single palm from the Bou Denib oasis of the Tafilalet area of Morocco. The variety had become famous in Europe by the 17th Century, but Bayoud disease, caused by a soil fungus, wiped out most of these palms in their native land during the late 19th Century. Walter Swingle of Indio found the disease-free palm on a visit to Bou Denib in 1927, and purchased 11 off-shoots, which the USDA had fumigated and planted in quarantine in Nevada until 1936, by which time 73 shoots (granddaughters of the original palm) were deemed disease free and ready for planting in California. We first planted ours in 1987. Innitially we will offer only double orders (4 lbs) until supply is adequate.
North America's finest locally grown dates, certified organic and harvested by members of the United Farm Workers of America.
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