The dark literally. Next, its turkey time. Learn how to make a new recipe with the holiday favorite. And travel to one of the most unique farmers markets in the stata. Its all ahead, and it starts now. You would think being around watermelons all day, you might get sick of eating the sometimes messy snack, but not for farmer dan van groningen. Thats good. Thats crispy. Its sweet. Its wet. Its everything a watermelon should be. But then again, hes had a lot of practice eating watermelons at his family farm in ripon. For more than 70 years now, theyve been growing the picnic favorite and have loved every minute of it, seeds and all. 1939, we started growin watermelons the first time. My grandfather did, and, uh, my father was young then, and he would do the harvesting. They would, uh, load the watermelons into small, little trucks and and bring em to the rail car and load emstack em by hand in the rail car, and thats how a lot of the watermelons were shipped. Dans right. When it comes to
[captioning made possie by cbyifornia farm bureau federation] coming up on California Country, meet a farming family finding a way to give back to their community. Then find out why this crop is coming out of the dark literally. Next, its turkey time. Learn how to make a new recipe with the holiday favorite. And travel to one of the most unique farmers markets in the stata. Its all ahead, and it starts now. You would think being around watermelons all day, you might get sick of eating the sometimes messy snack, but not for farmer dan van groningen. Thats good. Thats crispy. Its sweet. Its wet. Its everything a watermelon should be. But then again, hes had a lot of practice eating watermelons at his family farm in ripon. For more than 70 years now, theyve been growing the picnic favorite and have loved every minute of it, seeds and all. 1939, we started growin watermelons the first time. My grandfather did, and, uh, my father was young then, and he would do the harvesting. They would, u
[captioning made possie by cbyifornia farm bureau federation] coming up on California Country, meet a farming family finding a way to give back to their community. Then find out why this crop is coming out of the dark literally. Next, its turkey time. Learn how to make a new recipe with the holiday favorite. And travel to one of the most unique farmers markets in the stata. Its all ahead, and it starts now. You would think being around watermelons all day, you might get sick of eating the sometimes messy snack, but not for farmer dan van groningen. Thats good. Thats crispy. Its sweet. Its wet. Its everything a watermelon should be. But then again, hes had a lot of practice eating watermelons at his family farm in ripon. For more than 70 years now, theyve been growing the picnic favorite and have loved every minute of it, seeds and all. 1939, we started growin watermelons the first time. My grandfather did, and, uh, my father was young then, and he would do the harvesting. They would, u
Is that an urban legend, or is well, thethe thumping is after youveyouve picked the watermelon in the store. Lets say you assume all the watermelons are ripe in the store. Mmhmm. Every one in th bin or on the shelf are ripe. Then you wanna start feeling them. If they have a good sound to em, it means that theyre not overripe, when they have a a flat sound, uh, doesnt have a good ring to it. This has got a nice ring to it. If its got a flat sound, its either overripe, or maybe it has a hollow heart. After the watermelons leave the field, they are taken here to the packing shed, where they are sorted and even polished up a bit. There are now several generations of Van Groningens working together at the farm, including dans 86yearold dad. In recent years, the family has diversified the farm and has 4,500 acres in production of a variety of crops, so now when the sun goes down on the melon harvest, work just begins on the other big crop, sweet corn. Yeah, we like to do it at night, uh, bec
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