California Valley Fruit Stands Offer the Sweetest Flavors

In the heart of California’s Central Valley, a small farm town producing more fresh fruit than anywhere else on earth calls itself “The World’s Fruit Basket.” Reedley sits between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the coastal mountain range in the center of the valley. A prominent feature of side streets and country roads in the region are the various fruit and farm stands offering local produce. Sweet Girl Farms is a local fixture. The farmstand on South Alta Avenue, roughly 30 miles east of Fresno, is stocked with fresh white donut peaches, white nectarines, fresh vegetables, local honey, and flowers. Owner Liset Garcia opened the stand in 2019 and says “everyone gets excited” when peach season arrives in the early summer....