re: Georgia Peaches

No, though I do have family there (Ball Ground) and visit fairly often.

Yeah. I really like that area and am interested in trying some of those places. They are elderly and aren’t really into going out, so it never happens when we go.

I’m about an hour or so away, so it’s not very easy to make the trip on account of that other thing that we’re known for .

I understand that!

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The problem with concentrations of orchards or groves in one area for over 100 yrs is that they get a lot of diseases. Same is true with citrus in Florida with the greening

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Monoculture is bad for anything long term. There's a similar problem with almonds in California. Those farms have to truck in bees every spring to pollinate the trees because they don't have any natural hives in the area due to only having the almond flowers once a year on those huge tracts of land.

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Georgia's peaches are mainly tourism because it's just harder to grow them here now. Not only that but if you go to a chain grocery store, you won't find local fruit or meat. You've got to find a peach orchard in middle Georgia. Dickies or Lane are big tourist traps.

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As winters gradually are getting warmer, it's going to be harder and harder to grow peaches in the south. They have to have a certain amount of hours every winter below freezing and that's slowly happening less every year.

Pearson's out of Ft Valley is usually what I find at my local grocery store in the summer for Ga peaches.

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Dickies or Lane are big tourist traps.

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I'll disagree on Lane, if you do it right. We used to live fairly close. They sell peaches that are too ripe to ship for about half the price of the ones that would last for a while. We'd buy boxes of them and freeze them. Much better than the more expensive ones. Their strawberry patch was pretty awesome too, though the season is short.