Comments on: How To: Pick a Peach http://northstarorchard.com/blog/2010/07/19/how-to-pick-a-peach/ On Farming and Food Wed, 08 May 2013 12:41:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Blog • North Star Orchard http://northstarorchard.com/blog/2010/07/19/how-to-pick-a-peach/comment-page-1/#comment-295 Blog • North Star Orchard Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:41:09 +0000 http://northstarorchard.com/blog/?p=440#comment-295 [...] and more blush and less and less undercolor. As Lisa explained a few weeks back in a North Star blog post, “In heirloom or old traditional varieties of peaches, the little bit of red blush they developed [...]

]]> By: Julie S. http://northstarorchard.com/blog/2010/07/19/how-to-pick-a-peach/comment-page-1/#comment-293 Julie S. Sat, 07 Aug 2010 23:52:17 +0000 http://northstarorchard.com/blog/?p=440#comment-293 Hi Lisa,

Thanks for the article, advice, and wisdom. Your article reminded me of a story I was listening to on NPR recently about crop mobbing. It is similiar to the old fashioned barn raising. I did a bit of research about it. Here is a short article describing it, with links to a NY Times article about it, as well as info about how to start one in your area:

http://www.buylocalpa.org/blog

You have to scroll down a bit to the article titled Social Networking…

Hope you enjoy it!

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