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The 2018 crop is off the trays.Now it's time for washing.  We'll wash (imagine a tumbling rotating washer with holes) eachand every apricot we cut.  Just a short day of laying the washed tra … read more

We've spent the entire week scraping the fruit off the trays.  This consists of 10 men pushinga paddle/scraper on a moving tray line.  Trays are dumped into several bins......The  bins … read more

Not a single fresh cot left on the ranch.That's it for 20118

Seems I lied.....the end of the season is inches away..........but the fruit I still ripening on the trees.Got another few tons out there....and cool weather (like we wish we had two weeks ago)....... … read more

By Wednesday all the fresh will be gone.We will have stripped the trees and cut every last one of the lovely (sunkissed)  Blenheimsfor the 2018 season....They'll dry for 3-5 days.Fruit assessment … read more