Stone Fruit Jubilee: Making Exceptional Fruits Available to Community
An extraordinarily dedicated committee, toiling over several months, has conjured up numerous enhancements for this Saturday’s 2010 Stone Fruit Jubilee to which your family is cordially invited.
Of course, our celebration’s main attraction is the near-dozen organic orchardists who farm this region’s famed “Golden Triangle”, presenting as many as fifty ripe stone fruit varieties to taste. Even though trees and vines appear more normal this erratic spring than do vegetables, owing to a perennial’s ability to draw on previously stored energy from deeply established roots, fruit maturity has lagged, struggling to achieve flavor profiles expected this time of season.
So, we may have an opportunity to taste earlier fruit varieties this Saturday that were not represented at previous Jubilees.
A cadre of fruit cutting volunteers will free farmers to engage you in conversations on the art of orcharding. As the event spans dinner hours, Mao Farms will serve up Hmong ethnic dishes, La Boulangerie is provisioning us with both turkey and vegetarian baguette sandwich fare, and Whole Foods will grill stone fruits to accompany their pulled pork sandwiches.
Beverage choices feature Squaw Valley Herb Garden’s refreshing artisan mint, hibiscus and lemon grass teas.
“Jam lady”, Joyce Kierejczyk, will conduct several demonstrations on preserving fresh fruit flavors in a jar to brighten dreary winter days.
An added feature will be the display of award-winning poster art representing Fresno County’s now famed Blossom Trail. The raison d’etre of our Jubilee continues to be raising the profiles of accomplished organic orchardists in our community and addressing the dearth of local retail access to their fruit.
A unique marketing partnership coupling Jubilee growers with several locally owned retailers, one farm’s peak-of-season subscription stone fruit CSA service, plus a novel ripe fruit delivery business have all evolved in our community, inspired by the first two events.
Don’t miss your chance Saturday to marvel on the delicious bounty of these orchards and further scheme around making these exceptional fruits more available to our community every day.
–Tom Willey
T & D Willey Farms
For more info: www.fruitjubilee.org
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