mandarins

Zest for mandarins draws thousands to Auburn

Gold Country Fairgrounds was bustling with thousands at the annual Mountain Mandarin Festival, held this weekend in Auburn. The festival continues through Sunday and features loc ...

Real Food: Mandarins sweetening winter meals

The slightly warm days and chilly nights of December are just right for fully developing the full flavor and sweetness of Placer County’s Satsuma mandarins. How blessed we are to ...

Mandarins bring zest to fall

It’s a good year for mandarins at Highland Orchard in Penryn. “For us, personally — everyone is different — we have a great crop,” Highland’s Tony Aguilar Jr. said. ...

Locally Yours: Mandarins sweeten an already wonderful holiday

Two days until Christmas and then a week to the new year. Wow this year has gone by in a flash. I have been thinking about being Farmers’ Market Manager and writing for the A ...

Mandarin farmers scramble to beat freeze

Placer County's mandarin growers had their fingers crossed tightly as they watched the thermometer this week. Temperatures were predicted to dip to the freezing point, threatening ...

Mandarins’ health benefits creating boom in fruit sales

With Placer County’s synephrine-rich mandarins still being picked off foothills trees, the so-called super fruit is being touted as the holiday gift of health. Joanne Neft, an A ...

Media buzzing over mandarin health benefits

With sniffles and coughs heralding the start of cold season, word of Placer County’s super fruit is going viral on a national scale. Placer County’s mandarin orange crop is fro ...

Mandarin crop is lighter this year but as delicious as ever, farm adviser says

It’s time again for the zipper fruit! Mandarin season is upon us in Placer County. Orchards are opening to excited customers and there’s some information mandarin fans should ...

Our View - Mandarin support now could reap rich future rewards

Auburn’s Joanne Neft might very well have the hook to put Placer County’s mandarins on the map, but she can’t do it alone. On a quest to determine the health benefits of nat ...