mangoes

Mango Run – A Summer Tradition

July 17, 2010
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We made another run to Pine Island today for mangoes. It’s a tradition I started nearly 20 years ago. A new fruit stand has opened for business in a grove I’ve been driving past for years. Instead of wholesaling their mangoes this year they decided to open a retail stand on their property. Today they [...]

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Pine Island Fruit Market for Home Grown Tropical Fruit

June 19, 2009

By David McRee at BlogTheBeach.com We drove down to Pine Island today in search of my favorite fruit: ripe mangoes. We hit the jackpot! We also bought 4 pounds of lychees and a couple of medium-sized sapodillas. If you don’t know what those are, I’ll cover them in another blog post in the next week [...]

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