Kingston’s crunchy sweet carrots are in season during the summer and fall when they are the freshest and most flavorful. Our carrots have a thick, fleshy, deeply colored root, with feathery green leaves.

Kingston carrots are rich with Vitamin A and are an excellent source of antioxidant compounds. These antioxidant compounds help protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer and of course promote good vision.

The wild carrot is indigenous to Europe and parts of Asia. The wild carrot has a small, tough bitter white root; modern domestic carrots have a swollen, juicy sweet root, usually orange in color. Carrots originated in present day Afghanistan about 5000 years ago, probably with a purple or yellow root. Nature then produced mutants and natural hybrids, crossing both with cultivated and wild varieties. It is believed that purple carrots were then taken westward where yellow mutants and wild forms crossed to produce the orange color we know today. Dutch growers developed these mutant orange carrots to be sweeter and more practical.

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