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STONE FRUIT SEASON

Walk into your local farmers’ market and you’ll find the fruit shelves bursting with colours: red, pink, purple, yellow and orange. The sweet smell of ripe fruit lingers in the air and everyone seems happier, chirpier, more at ease. There are samples of nectarines, peaches, plums, apricots and cherries at the counter; you take a wedge or two. Sweet juice from the fleshy, plump slice trickles down your chin, leaving you sticky yet profoundly satisfied. Stone fruit season is here.

As a fellow stone fruit enthusiast, you might circle this time of year in your calendar, knowing that delicious, sweet fruits will soon surround you. But for passionate growers like Gaethan and Nicole Cutri, this is when their hard work and long hours pay off.

The husband-and-wife team own Cutri Fruit, a farm located in the

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