Speaking of Naomi...
Sep. 2nd, 2025 05:43 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouse I wish I had thought to take a picture of the chickens, but I didn't.
Okay, context.naomikritzer invited me to be her come-along friend to an experimental peach farm near Taylors Falls, Minnesota. For those of you not from around here, Minnesota is NOT typically peach country and people around here go absoutely SPARE for fresh peaches. There are entire forums full of people making runs to the south, gathering up fresh peaches, and making exchanges in sketchy parking lots. Okay, not EXACTLY, but dang near. I'm not one of these peach hounds, but Naomi is. So, she made arrangements with the farmer, Dan, to come get some fresh, directly off the tree peaches. Taylors Falls is about an hour away, so it's a long trip to go alone. So, of course, I volunteered!
Dan was absolutely charming. He had free range chickens who came out to see if we were interested in feeding them (We were! But we did not have food!) and then Dan had us follow him out to his greenhouses and he hand picked us some ripe peaches. Along the way he told us stories about his family and how he came to have a pizza oven on his poperty and how he feels like emphathy is something you need to clearly speak so that people know where you stand.
We left with several pounds of peaches.
I was glad I went.
What have you been up to?
Okay, context.
naomikritzer invited me to be her come-along friend to an experimental peach farm near Taylors Falls, Minnesota. For those of you not from around here, Minnesota is NOT typically peach country and people around here go absoutely SPARE for fresh peaches. There are entire forums full of people making runs to the south, gathering up fresh peaches, and making exchanges in sketchy parking lots. Okay, not EXACTLY, but dang near. I'm not one of these peach hounds, but Naomi is. So, she made arrangements with the farmer, Dan, to come get some fresh, directly off the tree peaches. Taylors Falls is about an hour away, so it's a long trip to go alone. So, of course, I volunteered!Dan was absolutely charming. He had free range chickens who came out to see if we were interested in feeding them (We were! But we did not have food!) and then Dan had us follow him out to his greenhouses and he hand picked us some ripe peaches. Along the way he told us stories about his family and how he came to have a pizza oven on his poperty and how he feels like emphathy is something you need to clearly speak so that people know where you stand.
We left with several pounds of peaches.
I was glad I went.
What have you been up to?
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Date: 2025-09-05 10:03 am (UTC)(Mind, I didn't even catch the peach/blueberry truck visits this summer: Georgia peaches & Michigan blueberries. Yum.)