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Sun-Maid raisins are packaged in a red box featuring the “Sun-Maid Girl” wearing a red sunbonnet and holding a tray of fresh grapes. Sun-Maid raisins are grown in the Central Valley of California, midway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, a region known for its climate perfect for growing grapes to make raisins. The grapes are picked at ...
Goodness, the raisins are growing mighty big in the sunny fields of California these days! The execs at Sun-Maid are proud that their raisins contain "nothing but grapes and sunshine." But the new ...
The plants and trees, some of which are over 100 years old, are protected from the frost in the winter months by virtue of construction. Each level was planted at different times, so they bloom in succession, in order to lengthen the growing season.
The concept was created by advertising firm Foote, Cone & Belding (FCB) for a 1986 Sun-Maid commercial on behalf of the California Raisin Advisory Board when one of the writers, Seth Werner (at the time with FCB in San Francisco) came up with an idea for the new raisin commercial, saying, "We have tried everything but dancing raisins singing 'I Heard It Through the Grapevine'" (the 1968 song ...
In 1993, The Jepson Manual estimated that California was home to 4,693 native species and 1,169 native subspecies or varieties, including 1,416 endemic species. A 2001 study by the California Native Plant Society estimated 6,300 native plants.
In a process known as engustment, the berries start to soften as they build up sugars. Within six days of the start of veraison, the berries begin to grow dramatically as they accumulate glucose and fructose and acids begin to fall. [8] The onset of veraison does not occur uniformly among all berries.
In most of the U.S., the rainy season comes in spring. Not California. Ned Kleiner. February 13, 2025 at 10:26 AM. ... As the climate warms and weather extremes grow ever more extreme, the ...
California is known to be free of Bactrocera tau (Walker). [302] California red scale (Aonidiella aurantii) is an invasive pest here. [303] It competitively displaced a prior invader Yellow scale . [303] Debach et al., 1978 finds that A. citrina is now extinct in this state due to the invasion of A. aurantii. [303]