"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:02:03 GMT, "brooklyn1"
> > wrote:
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>>During the same time period the peaches at farm stands in the area will be
>>exactly the same as those at the stupidmarkets in the same area... they
>>will
>>both have fruit from the same orchard or both shipped from halfway around
>>the world, peach season is short. The only way you are going to get tree
>>ripened peaches is to grow your own, or find a peach orchard that harvests
>>their tree ripened peaches and sells to the public, very few do except for
>>their own use, because they will suffer way too much loss.
>
> This is definitely not true in California, which has a wealth of great
> farmers markets. Those farmers markets are overflowing with all sorts
> of varieties of peaches in season..and they are ripe, and are usually
> locally grown.
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>
You just don't get it... farmer's markets actually get second choice/left
overs behind the large stupidmarket chains