<p><strong><img width="250" src="images/stories/lgs/comm_nectarines.jpg" alt="nectarines" height="153" class="image-right" />Summer’s sweet harvest in winter!</strong></p>
<p><strong>Sources, Seasons and Supply</strong></p>
<p>Just when you thought you had savored your last taste of summer, delicious, summer, ripe, ready to eat stone fruit from Chile arrive on the scene to cheer you and brighten the cold, austere months from November to March.</p>
<p><img src="images/stories/lgs/plum.jpg" style="float: left;" />Fresh, juicy and mouthwateringly sweet, our rosy hued Chilean peaches and nectarines, golden lemon plums and apricots, and crimson cherries—all long prized for their delicate flesh and fragrant perfume—are pre-conditioned, ripe, and ready to be eaten fresh or to be used in cooking, baking, even wine making.</p>
<p>With stone fruit in the larder, it’s always sweet summer in the kitchen.</p>
<p><img width="250" src="images/stories/lgs/comm_cherries.jpg" alt="cherries" height="136" class="image-right" />These delicious dainties are called stone fruit because they contain a single pit or stone, instead of a core with multiple seeds, and they can be used in literally hundreds of different ways: in soups, salads, sauces, desserts, pies, cobblers, ice cream, for freezing, canning, toppings and garnishes. They are the cream of summer’s fruit crop, their remarkable lushness perfuming foods and wines with the scent and flavor of a flower garden.</p>
<p><strong>Availability</strong>: From November to March, LGS offers its customers premium quality peaches, nectarines, plums and cherries from the top growers in Chile. Such rare and exotic items as: lemon plums that miraculously transform from golden yellow to scarlet; high-sugar Pink Delight plums; pre-conditioned ready to eat, yellow-flesh peaches with a deep red blush; and more.</p>
<p><strong>Packaging</strong>: Peaches—a good source of vitamins A, B and C—and nectarines come packed in a 2-layer, 16lb box. Plums—an excellent source of vitamin A, calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium and fiber—are tray packed in 15lb cartons. Cherries are packed in 10 lb flats.</p>
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<p>Nectarines:</p>
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<p>Peaches:</p>
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<p>Cherries:</p>
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<p>Plums:</p>
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