We had a great time. If you get there early you can buy an all you can eat pancake breakfast, complete with huge sausage links and fresh peach syrup. If you are a later riser, you can enjoy apple smoked hamburgers, beans, chips and homemade pie and ice cream for dessert. We had breakfast this trip. It was soooooooo good. I wish I could make peach syrup like that. Someday I'll figure out how.
After breakfast we grabbed our buckets and peach pickers and headed out to the orchards to find our peaches. Nicholas is the same age as Grant and they both had a great time. As you can see from the picture below, they both wanted to carry the buckets. Believe it or not, they actually carried those buckets for a lot of the picking, especially Grant. We all had a great time sweating, getting muddy, closely inspecting trees and sampling peaches. We bought enough so that Amy and I could each make a peach pie and some peach freezer jam. We were feeling quite pioneer.
(Amy Studley looking for the perfect peach)
(Chad and Grant)
(Grant and Nicholas with their peach picking buckets ready to go)
(Grant helping out with the peach picking)
(Lars and Nicholas with their prize peaches)
On Monday, Amy and I got together at my house to complete our pioneer experience. I taught amy how to make a peach pie and we learned how to make freezer jam together. With two 2 year olds and Amy's 5 month old, the process took about 4 hours but we had a good time getting sticky and covered with flour. Our pies turned out so yummy and the jam was unbelievably easy. If fruit weren't so expensive I'd always make freezer jam instead of buying it.
1 comment:
What a blast! If you can get fruit on a deal then it is way cheaper to make jam yourself. I always make a ton of strawberry freezer jam and we love it! A fresh peach pie sounds so yummy! I will have to make one when the peaches on my tree are ripe.
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