Less than two weeks remain before Shavuoth, the festival of the first fruits, but Chubeza’s field is already decked out with new springtime fruits. Last week, we harvested our first beds of fakus, aka “Arabic cucumber.” We’re now awaiting the barrage of phone that begin something like, “This week I received two portions of zucchini and no cucumbers!” On behalf of those whose boxes this week contain fakus and not cucumbers, let me offer this handy key to distinguishing between a fakus and a zucchini, which I learned from our longtime client Tzipi from Jerusalem: The fakus stem resembles that of a cucumber, not zucchini! If you received a light-colored elongated vegetable you cannot define, check out its stem (the part where it attaches to the plant): if it is wide and star-shaped like a zucchini, well… it’s a zucchini. If it’s thin and willowy like a cucumber, then say hi to our friend the fakus.