Campus-grown dates available for purchase

As the date harvest month — October – rolls along, so do the Arizona State University Arboretum volunteers as they harvest and pack the annual date crop on the Polytechnic and Tempe campuses that will be available for purchase.

The Polytechnic date grove — the largest date palm collection of any public garden in the country with more than 40 date palm varieties — produces several options of the sweet fruit that ripen throughout the fall. Check out Sphinx Date Co. Palm & Pantry in Scottsdale to sample and purchase some of the Polytechnic collection.

One-pound boxes of Palm Walk Medjool dates from the Tempe campus are now on sale Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the University Services Building front desk.

If you’re looking for a tasty treat on the go, stop by the date vending machine inside the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.