Peaches, Blackberries, and Bees, Oh My!
We took a family trip up to Howard County, Maryland to gather baskets of blackberries and boxes of tree-ripe peaches.
The farm we visited boasts several varieties of white and yellow peaches, and we chose to pick the Loring, a yellow freestone peach, with high acidity and sweetness and softball sized fruits! We also stopped for blackberries and made our way to the barn for some special treats after all of the work picking fruits!
Here are some of my favorite photos from our time at the farm. If you can't get fresh peaches and berries where you live, then just pretend that it was you who went to the farm.
Also, I'm taking any and all suggestions on peach recipes, so bring them on!
The farm's barn is also home to a small beehive, where bees come and go through a tunnel in the exterior wall.
All of these photos have me brainstorming a recipe that incorporates not only peaches, but blackberries, and honey too! Oh my!
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All content and photos by @jaymorebeet, taken on August 5, 2017 with a Canon 7D Mark II.
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good photo!! upvoted&followed :)
Thanks a bunch @tomaszek!
OMG! I want to join you. I love picking fruit. I used to climb a mango tree in front of my grandma's house back in my home country.
Mangos are probably my all time favorite fruit! You are so lucky to have had that experience! Mmm so good!
That looks like so much fun! I love blackberries for pancakes and pie. I use to live near a pick your own raspberry patch. My husband's favorite food. Our first year there he spent $200 total picking and eating raspberries every
day for months. I told him he was crazy but it was his money and he was really happy.
Wow $200 worth of raspberries ought to come with at least 1 roll of tp, amirite? ;) jk, I stuffed my face too and I could totally see how I could rack up that bill if I lived close enough!
Nothing better than fresh peaches. I like to can them in plain water with a little citric acid to protect the color and texture. Then I can make cobblers or peach ice cream. Mmmmm.
I might just do this! Do you remove the skins by boiling them first? Thanks @debbiesbackporch!!
Sounds like you and your family had tons of fun visiting the farm. You've got talent in photography! Love the bees, looks like they were very busy. They are so hardworking, lol.
Yeah, so much fun! Thanks girl - yeah i loved watching those busy workers doing their busy bee thang. So mission focused!!
Also, what do you think about making a jigsaw puzzle out of that first bees photo?
OMG - that's a fantastic idea!
Great post and pictures, looking forward to hearing what receipes you come up with. I have a peach tree so always looking for ideas of what to do with them.
Ooh I'd love to hear your recipes too! So jealous of your built-in peach supply!! I don't know what I would do with myself! (Except wear a bib all summer long). :)
Well it's just the one tree at the moment but it gives quite a few peaches all at once and we can't eat them all before they go off. So need to do something with them :)
Yum! Well, except the bees that is. :)
Very interesting on the acidity of the peaches.
Thanks for sharing. Upvote and Resteemed.
Thanks @abitowhit- yeah I don't know how good bees would feel on the way down. But I'm sure glad they pollinate all these yummy fruit trees to ale something I want to eat!! :)
Right! I have a patch of unwanted thistles but the honey bees love them. I just noticed they were full of bees so I will let them feast away.
as a bee parent you need to make so many sacrifices ;)
You never fail to snap such beautiful photos, @jaymorebeet! <3
I've been eating 2-3 peaches a day because they seem to be in peak season (at the supermarkets at least) right now...my favourite are the donut peaches..
Have you tried those?
Love them! So cute and squat! I do, however, favor the softball-sized juice makers :) Yummmmm...as juice drips everywhere...
hehehe that's where we're different! The juice dripping down makes my chin and hands itch something crazy..donut peaches are easy and comfy to eat for me ;)
Well at least with the both of us, there's always demand for both types of peaches hehehe
Looks like a wonderful family day!!
It was indeed!! Gotta love nature's buffet! Wait, we were supposed to pay for those (all with purple teeth and peach juice on our clothes). oops!