Peaches!

Before we moved to Kansas, I had visions of this being a wonderful place to get all kinds of great, local, fresh produce.  Well, if you're talking about wheat and corn, yes, this is a great place for it, but for a large variety of fresh produce, this is NOT the place to be.  I went to the farmers market one time and was so depressed about what I found (or shall I say did NOT find) that I haven't been back.  We have had a garden both summers we've been here now, so we do get some produce from there, but I really miss the incredible farmers market in California.  At least our local grocery store is pretty nice and there is a great store down in Wichita (half an hour away) at which we like to get produce.   We are all out of home canned peaches, so I really wanted to find a good resource to get a bunch to can.  I wasn't sure I'd find much locally, but I did find a peach farm not too far from us.  They ended up being too expensive to want to buy enough to can, but it was a nice family outing and the few peaches we did get were delicious (and not treated with pesticides!).  I froze a few to enjoy later.  It was great!  Here we are at the peach orchard:

They had an old tractor the kids could sit on.

Picking some peaches (and eating them too!) Don't worry, it was allowed.  The owner was right there with us and offered them to the kids.

Delicious!

The kids loved the play area.  You can see the orchard there in the background.

Grant was in heaven when he saw this massive sandbox complete with construction vehicles galore!

The girls trying out this merry-go-round

Kate loved it!  I was so nervous she would fall off and crack her head open on the cement!  She's so little!

Cool airplane teeter-totter.

Oh- I did find another place that orders bunk peaches from out-of-state.  I should be getting those in soon.  It will be nice to have that supply built up again.