#peach picking

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

Peach picking on Sauvie island! Flowers and clover everywhere underfoot.

[forsythiahill]

Peach picking time and we have tons this year on Forsythia Hill in Charlottesville Virginia

[yorkieeevie]

🍑🍑

[septembersung]

Peach Picking Kwame Dawes

From the dusty road under acacia trees the house looks like a dream rising in the sharp

clean colors from the common green, passive sea of unremarkable land, no surprises. She lifts the tarp

and gathers gently the bruised peaches, their water so near the skin like a blister, the childishness

of their tender peel—how little it takes to scar them. She fills baskets, planting fruit in a nest

of fresh damp straw, while she counts out a song that turns into words; a song that feels

as old as the indigo sky and the stoic brick house teetering like an unsettled boat in the open field

in the middle of nothing: a body with no context, just the language of loss haunting as a low country hex.

[kyn19]

hmmmm

[dynamitekansai]

👌🍑 Peach Picking Poi 🍑👌

[theautumndarling]

Yesterday afternoon I went peach picking at the farm, then I came home and made my first ever peach cobbler! It was delicious! 🍑🍂

[ahedderick]

Still just Peachy

I got two batches of peach cookery done yesterday, but that’s only about half the peaches I picked. The rest need another day or so to fully ripen. I made eight+ pints of jam

You’ll notice, especially in the second picture, that these are far from perfect peaches. In fact, they have bug spot, bad spots, and they’re fairly small! There are positives and negatives to spraying with chemicals, for sure. So these unsprayed peaches take a good bit of trimming, but they’re mostly fine. I scald them with a quick dip in boiling water to make the skins slip off easily. Then peel, trim, chop, and sometimes puree in a blender. All the jam recipes say “Do NOT puree!!” They are entitled to their opinion. However, I frequently puree some or all of the fruit for strawberry or peach jam, and it turns out just fine. It’s a bit more spreadable that way, if you’re making pbj sandwiches.

I use Pomona’s pectin for most of my jams and jellies; I highly recommend it. You can make low or no sugar jam with Pomona’s, and you have a lot of flexibility to make whatever size batch you want.The second batch became pie filling

You can see I wasn’t working fast enough, and there is some slight browning of the peaches in spots! It doesn’t affect the taste, though. Peaches + sugar + tapioca thickener + maybe some cinnamon. So, so yummy.

Small note - if you would like to make peach preserves of any sort, but can’t afford to buy perfect store peaches just to chop them up and cook - try asking you local farmer’s market staff about ‘seconds.’ Many farm stands will sell slightly damaged but still very good fruit as seconds to folks who can or preserve. They keep them hidden, though, and you have to ask!