Wednesday, January 25, 2017

-Peach Harvest

Summer in the orchard doesn't leave much time for huge events, but we sure do love the small ones. We are so busy during the summer with harvest. By June we literally have peaches running out of our ears. The trees produced so many peaces and nectarines this year. We were shipping fruit up about every 3 days. Our fork lift broke down permanently somewhere during the peach harvest, so the guys built a dock to load the fruit in the semi using the tractor, or we would hand load it in using the baskets that we use to pick the fruit into. 

Gabe and Shea loading the fruit baskets onto the trailer to take off the field.



As the picking crew finishes up their baskets they stack them in the shade to help preserve them. The days are hot and the rule of thumb is for every hour the fruit is off the tree and in the sun we lose an day of shelf life. So we are running like crazy to get the fruit in the cooler as fast as possible.



Peach harvest is a bunch of physical work, and a blast! Most of the harvest it takes a couple people to bring in fruit, and working with my siblings in the orchard is the funnest thing about the job.

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