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Fresh Colorado Fruit
The 2025 fruit season is just about here! I wanted to give you a heads up on when we’ll start and how’s everything looking. I will put out a detailed schedule when we get started. At this point we plan to start on July 23 in Hays, July 25 in Scott City and July 26 in Garden City at the Farmers Market with respective days of the week on the following weeks through Labor Day. The exact times and other details will come about the week before we get started in another email. Dighton will be Monday - Saturday 9-6 at The Market. The items available look plentiful and available all season. Of course, weather will dictate what items and when as we get going in the year. We are looking forward to seeing all of you!
Fresh Colorado Fruit
How to Freeze Colorado Peaches (We've done this for 3 years & love it!)
- Ripen by taking out of the box, not stacked on top of each other
- Wait for your Colorado peaches to reach your desired level of ripeness.
- Once ready, place as many whole, unpeeled, unwashed Colorado peaches as you can into each large freezer bag. That's right! No need to wash, peel, or cut up. All you have to do is place them in the bag whole, and zip it shut. Using this method, it's important NOT to wash your peaches beforehand.
- Press out as much air as possible, close the bag, and place your filled freezer bags in the freezer. You're done!
- When ready to use your frozen peaches, take out only as many as you are ready to use
- Simply run Each Individual peach in your hand under warm water, gently rubbing the skin. As the skin thaws, it will begin to slough off,
- Place Each Individual peach in a cereal bowl, microwave for about 30-45 seconds to help thaw
- Cut peach in half and remove the seed
· You're all set to eat with a bowl of ice cream,
or place into a delicious peach recipe of your choice!
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I like microwaving the ears, but shuck husks completely off. Don't microwave too long. A minute and a half is good for 2 ears on a plate. Randy
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This is how Sweet Corn comes to the packing shed and is unloaded. Amazing!
Look at the size of that forklift! That Sweet Corn is heavy!
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USDA inspector checks out various boxes brought into packing shed to make sure quality is to the best standards.
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This is a skid steer getting crushed ice to put it in a slurry machine to hydro-cool the sweet corn.
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Forklifts take stack of sweet corn from slurry machine to big walk-in coolers. Look at the number of huge ice machine to make the mountain of crushed ice to the right that was picked up by skid steer.