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[Nightowlz]

Yum!!! Wish we could get peaches sooner but they are never available until late July or Aug. DH picked up 2 cases this morning. 

[kate2357]

@Nightowlz 

Nice haul of peaches. What will you do with your peaches?

The peaches here in WA have been good this year. Sweet and juicy. I made a brown sugar peach crumble tart for dessert today and it turned out really good because the peaches were so good.

[Nightowlz]

@kate2357 

I will be eating them for lunch & dinner as soon as they get ripe. DH said he was going to make peach cobbler.  

We will take some over to my MIL. I'm sure my SIL will make a pie or cobbler with some of them. 

I will also freeze some to use in smoothies.

I like the peaches from Cunningham's out of CO. best so will wait for them to make some ice cream. They won't be available for almost a month. They are large juicy peaches. 

[KathyM23]

We have been eating white peaches for the last couple weeks.  They have been sweet and juicy.  Really good.

[Spacrazy]

@KathyM23 :  Yum, that sounds so good.  I've heard there are white peaches in our area but I've just never gone around looking for them but I think I'll get some this weekend.

[ScrapHappy]

I live in GA.  NO local GA peaches in my grocery store this year.  90% of crops lost to the freeze.  Problem with fresh corn too.  Can't find it anywhere.  Asked employee at grocery store yesterday and she said they just haven't gotten any.

[On It]

@Nightowlz The peaches are beautiful. They take me back in time. My grandmother had an orchard with multiple peach trees. She made cobbler and fried (hand) pies. She sliced and packaged and froze them. They were in square plastic containers. Finally, she made peach preserves and peach jelly. Peaches that make it to grocery stores do not have that fresh-off-the-tree taste.

[wagirl]

@kate2357 ---I am in WA state too and yes the peaches, black cherries and other stone fruit has been very good. 

I am in Woodinville, NE of Seattle. @kate2357 where do you live? 

[SouthernBee]

@ScrapHappy : I live in Georgia and upset by the no peaches,but like to snack on the fresh peaches.I have plenty in the freezer.DH goes every year to Pearson Peach Farm in Ft.Valley ,Georgia. This is a tradition for over 20 years. Started going to Reynolds , Georgia but that farm closed down because of covid  and stayed closed.

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@ScrapHappy wrote:

I live in GA.  NO local GA peaches in my grocery store this year.  90% of crops lost to the freeze.  Problem with fresh corn too.  Can't find it anywhere.  Asked employee at grocery store yesterday and she said they just haven't gotten any.

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[drizzellla]

Not sure where the peaches are from, that we have been getting at our grocery stores this year. But everyone has been a winner.

Generally we stopped buying peaches at the grocery store. It was either rock hard or mealy. But every peach we bought this year has been nice and juicy. 

We have been ending every meal with a bowl of peaches and a scoop of vanilla ice cream.

I also want to comment all the fruit this year has been so good. The cherries, watermelon, strawberries are making such a tasty fruit salad. I make a fruit salad everyday.