Peaches

Still catching up on summer pics! If you haven't been able to tell, fruit picking has been our jam since moving here (pun totally intended). We love going to visit different farms and orchards and taking home as much as we can carry. I'm learning about canning and freezing and trying to preserve some of the goodness to enjoy in the winter. This time we went to Dondero Orchards and we had Rebecca with us to help with the pickins. 

Mariah loved running away from me and finding rotten peaches on the ground to munch on.

 She mostly cried a lot until it was time to go and she got to play in this play car at the farm house while I paid for the fruit. Then she decided this was the best orchard ever.

We waited a few days for the peaches to ripen, then we blanched and skinned them and LOOK HOW PRETTY THEY ARE, like little balls of sunset.

Then we made a peach galette, peach jam, peach syrup, and froze lots and lots and lots of slices to bag and use later.