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2022 Crespo Organic Season Starts!
We’ve got good news and who doesn’t love that these days! NEWS FLASH! Before the new year I gave you my big juicy predications for the 2022 Crespo Organic Mango season and so far things are ringing true. In a string of years where everything is extraordinarily complicated, this feels really good. I know challenges…
Continue ReadingWinter Off-Shore Crop Update
As we near our Mexican season, what’s happening south matters I don’t think there could be a more unusual offshore mango season than the one that is currently happening. Perhaps it’s not unusual in the grand {supply chain} scheme of things considering ports and vessel issues are one of the main problems. Currently Ecuadorian fruit,…
Continue ReadingBig & Juicy Predictions for the New Year
2022 Mexican mango crop forecast seems to looking sweet (Click here to read my offshore crop update) Predictions for the new year rain down hard during this time of year. Experts and non-experts alike – not to mention annoying influencers – are all giving us their hot takes on the year ahead. Like clockwork, each…
Continue ReadingHoliday Cheer is #MangoJoy
Mango-Centric recipes sure to bring in some needed holiday cheer! It’s been a heck of a few years and it’s looking like the year ahead isn’t going to give us too much of a COVID break. But if we have learned anything in these past COVID years, it’s how to find and feel the joy regardless…
Continue ReadingMango Macadamia Nut Chili Brittle
Another holiday winner from the Crespo Organic Kitchen! You know how much I hate mango recipes that seem meaningless, like someone just tossed mangoes into an already perfect recipe and they think they had a clever idea. Not even examining the ideal way to incorporate a mango into the recipe. The way mangoes are often…
Continue ReadingBlooming In the Southern Mango Orchards
Ataulfo orchards bloom and we untwist season start intel This week I have been fielding a lot of questions about when the Mexican mangoes will start up again. It’s common for me to get these emails and calls this time of year. People get confused and excited. I think as it gets colder everywhere we…
Continue ReadingGratitude for Organic Farmers
A pause for appreciation for those that feed us, organically I learned about gratitude as a little girl. It was not taught to me in school or by my parents or by my country. It was taught to me by Nicaraguans. Poor Nicaraguans to be specific, who had nothing much of physical, monetary, or economic…
Continue ReadingMango Pie Spice
The New Flavor of Fall If you haven’t worked in marketing, you may not be able to empathize with how pressurized it can become – to have to constantly churn out new, creative (and IMO hopefully) useful content. In the culinary education world that means new recipe ideas and techniques to simplify them, giving consumers…
Continue ReadingLate Season Brooks Mangoes!
Empaque Don Jorge expands the season with late varietal trials There are always “good” and “bad” parts to any growing season. If you ask most growers (including the Crespo’s) “was this a good season or a bad one?”, most will say that it was not a great one. The entire season was ripe with problems,…
Continue ReadingLos Mochis Transition in Motion
McAllen enjoys the last fruits of our labor while Nogales embraces a bit more propaganda Here is the brief take-away from this article: Hot water baths are not bad, and untreated fruit is not better. The end of the season is complex for all- let facts be your guide. For a handful of us who…
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