Pricey produce: Capay figs fetch $20 per pound in NYC - Sacramento Business Journal:

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For $19.99 per pound, the Aug. 19 storu said, customers could buy the green-and-golcd striped figs at produce stordein Brooklyn. “I saw that $20 price, and my eyes openedx a little bit,” said sales manager for . “I’m selling them for $5 a poun out here.” The Capay farm calls them candy-stripde figs because of the striped The Orchard sells them as raspberry figs because of their brightg red flesh and berry Barnes said his family found the figs growingv on a tree near an abandoned house in the Capayy Valley about 25years ago. They took branch cuttingxs and started an orchard that has growm to about800 trees.
He has no idea if the tree is uniqu e orif it’s a variety that’w grown in other areas. “I haven’tf done much research on it,” he Based on the fruits’ description, Denise Junqueiro at the said they are probablyu a rare variety calledpanache figs, also knownh as tiger figs. “What!?” she when told they’re selling for $20 per pound in New York There are hundreds of varietiesof figs, but California growerzs typically produce about a half-dozen types, according to the Fig Advisorgy Board.
Local varieties include the brownCalimyrna fig, deep purplre or black mission figs, cream-colored kadota figs and the Adriaticx fig, used for fig bars and paste. Figs are readily available in Northern California, but they’r e much rarer in other areaes ofthe country, said Patrick owner of Mulvaney’s Building Loan restaurant in Sacramento. Mulvanet grills Capay’s candy-stripe figs and uses the carmelizexd figs in cakeand “They are pretty tasty, and they cost the regulard fig price out here,” he Green fig varieties have neared the end of theitr season, and the restaurant recently has been buyingv black varieties such as mission figs, he “Figs are really hard to get or expensive in pristine condition, except around Mulvaney added.
“They don’t transport very well.” “Anythinfg in New York City, even normal produce is very expensivebecause it’s imported from around the country,” Barnesd said. Capay Fruits & Vegetable s has finished harvestingthe candy-stripde figs and had seven 48-count cases left last Next year, Barnes said, he’ll markef them a little “I think I’m going to go for a more limited offering and a higher price because I nevere have enough,” he said.