Discovery: In Search of Apricots
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- Опубликовано: 16 июн 2024
- We check our local resources in order to discover a good price for apricots we can preserve and we find it about an hour away. We stop in at Frie's Fresh Produce in Santa Clara in Southern Utah and found them!
Frei's Fresh Produce: 1401 Vernon St. Snta Clra, Utah 84765
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OH TO HAVE MARKETS LIKE YOU ARE VISITING.
Oh my!! My grandfather, then my dad, and my uncle sold produce. When I was in high school I ran the retail market. I was unloading trucks full of peaches, writing newspaper ads, and selling produce all summer. This brings me back to my youth 50 years ago! The quality looks fantastic.
How fun to hear your story! Thanks for sharing.
I just put up 18 pints of apricot jam. $2.00 a lb for the fruit when buying in large quantities from a local farmer out of the Central Valley here in California. If I had a choice of only one fruit for jam it would be apricot.
(I use my preserves to flavor my yogurt. Plus it makes nice gifts.)
I live in Fort Worth, Texas. There are a number of farmers markets around the Dallas/Fort Worth area and many of them have a combination of local produce and produce that’s been shipped in from other states like California or from far south Texas. However, the farmers market run by the city of Fort Worth has a requirement that everything sold at the market must be grown or made with 150 miles of Fort Worth. They go out periodically to check the different farms and processing locations (for things like syrup or jams) to make sure that the item is really grown or produced locally. I always prefer to go to that market because I know that the produce is local. Therefore, you never find pineapples or limes, but really good Texas produce such as tomatoes, and corn and peaches, all in season.
Thanks for sharing. I would not have thought of 150 miles as local. Jim
Love apricots. Those look like Blenheims and are the very best and grown here in CA. They ripen from the inside out. They also have a wonderful history. My family has Blenheim trees and I also order dried from a wonderful large organic Blenheim farm in CA.
Making my mouth water. So going to be happy when our summer produce starts showing up. Thank you for the tour
“ more than we will eat in a week” 😂😂I’d eat those three in one sitting give me the salt shaker and I’ll sit in the garden near the tomatoes and can? Nope eat ‘em! My dad used to say I’d eat a half bushel at a time! He was close to right! Always been mine and my brother’s fave’s what a time growing up!
When I was a kid, Mom and Dad would take the four of us kids to farms with "pick-your-own" plots for flats of strawberries and cherries. We'd also go out to pick wild asparagus as it came on. There was an abandoned apricot "orchard" about two miles from home where I'd ride my bike and bring home two buckets of apricots hung on the handlebars for about a week when they were ripe. Haven't thought about that stuff in decades. Thanks for this.
Wow, $5 for a pineapple! Here in Florida, I get them for around $2 and dehydrate them, they are so sweet and yummy. Stay hydrated!
Oh wow! A couple of years ago, I was able to get them for 1.98. Jim
Enjoy these type of vlogs
Love the video. I will be traveling to Yakima Washington on July 4th to pick up some apricots. lol some like 2 or 3 lugs or boxes. Ran out of apricot jam this year. So will increase the amount I can. Nothing like buying directly from the farmer. Thank you for the video.
Nice Farmers Market. I agree some of the prices are high. Lots of produce that’s not grown locally what a shame. I’m going to our FM not expecting much of local items unless the Rocky Ford cantaloupe are early there wonderful. Your so blessed that your Jim shops & cooks with you💕 mine about like the plague 😎
My father started taking me shopping with him when I was 17. My mother's health was problematic. When Pam I first met, we shopped together. In the last few years, I have do most of the shopping. Jim
your prices seem to be more reasonable then here in canada, i was craving a peach tart they wanted 8$ for 4 very small peaches....my craving will have to wait lol
I agree: $2.00 each is high. Jim
I have an apricot tree in my backyard. It looks like I'm going to have another bumper crop this year. I've given them away and had the gleaning project come in one year. I'd really like some canning ideas. I made apricot butter last year but would like more instruction on canning them pitted and halved.
Tomorrow's video will feature hot pack canning of apricots.
My sister gets fruit in AZ from the Utah fruit lady - pick up like you do Azure - apricots are in July - we have nothing like this in the midwest unless we order from Azure. I keep hoping to find a produce auction or something
This must be strenuous work!
On second thought.....tedious! LOL
Not too bad...so much better than peaches!!
Jim is it still 110? That was funny. Good looking produce. Apricot jam is also my favorite. Have a great week.
Actually, it is 120. But, we are surviving. Jim
@@RoseRedHomestead What!! Oh but its's a dry heat. ha ha
Dallas 89 with 62% humidity. Hot and sticky.
Farmer's Markets are fabulous but going to the farms for seasonal fruit is exciting. Unfortunately farms are dwindling in numbers. How much of the produce is local? Here, a by-product of the huge cherry pitter was juice that sold by the gallon. Great for arthritis. Can buy syrup in stores but just not the same. What fun you two have and I go down memory lane. Thanks!
Thanks for your comments. Jim
We find most produce markets here are mostly plants and flowers. We ran a CSA where people bought a share in our tiny farm and got boxes of whatever was growing but it was so HARD to be just two older people doing it -
110, eh? Thanks for the shopping trip. 💕
You’re welcome 😊
How much of that produce is grown locally and how much is from a warehouse and trucked in?
I have the best apricots right now. They have that perfect little kiss of reddish pink.
Ohhhh...so jealous! That is fantastic for you!
Apricots here is southern Louisiana can be found, but they are awful! Zero taste!! I grew up in California and we had the very best Apricots ever!! I sure miss them. ❤
Sorry to hear about your LA apricots. Jim
Royal blendheim are the best. They're not quite as pretty or as large but they are excellent for drying. This will be the last year for me to cut, sulfur and dry cots in the s.f. east bay as I'm loosing the apricot trees to development.
Thanks for that info!
Rose, I can’t find a way to email you. I’m trying to preserve all of my blueberries this year. I came across a recipe where they blanched the berries then added them with no liquid and canned. They apparently make their own juice. Please help! Is this safe? I really want to do this if it will work!
It is never a good idea to dry can anything with no liquid in the jars. Here is the tested recipe for canning blueberries: nchfp.uga.edu/how/can/canning-fruits-and-fruit-products/berries-whole/#:~:text=Heat%20berries%20in%20boiling%20water,%2C%20leaving%20%C2%BD%2Dinch%20headspace.
first!
Jim sounds out of breath