Colorado Grown Produce

Colorado Sweet Corn

December 11, 2019

Did you know? Sweet corn can be yellow, white, or bicolored (yellow and white). Although some people prefer one to the other, the color of the kernels has no relationship to sweetness of the corn. Summer cookouts would not be quite so sweet without sweet corn! Corn, Zea mays, originated from […]

Colorado Grown Produce, Colorado Grown Vegetables, Food

Colorado Carrots

December 11, 2019

Did you know? Carrots were the first vegetable to be commercially canned. The Guinness World record for the heaviest carrot weighed in at 20 lb, and the record for the longest carrot is over 19 feet! Some carrot varieties can remain in the soil all winter–a plus in Colorado where […]

Colorado Grown Fruits, Colorado Grown Produce, Food

Colorado Cantaloupe

December 11, 2019

Seasonality Colorado grown cantaloupes are available August through October and cantaloupes are sold in many grocery stores year round. Is it okay for me to eat a cantaloupe that looks ‘blemished’ on the outside? This blemish is most likely the ‘ground spot,’ or where the melon rested on the ground […]