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["Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>]

I'd highly recommend a similar colon cleansing tour following the Okinagon
river in north central WA up into British Columbia. The US side is mostly
unaccessible commercial/industrial orchards but there are many fruit stands
and farmers' markets around the towns and all that fruit is something to
see. The road on the Canadian side is lined with 2-5 acre orchards each
with their own fruit stand run by the family who grew what they are
selling. You can talk to the guy who picked the peaches and cherries on
display that morning about varieties and orchard practices and go into the
back room and watch them sort and grade fruit just coming in. People are
very friendly and accommodating and there are plenty of rest rooms. It is
amazing how many tree ripened peaches and cherries it takes to fill up a
person and how good peaches for breakfast sounds after not being able to
look at another one the day before. Lots of excellent wineries to tour as
well and the BC wines are second to none. 

Dave


> [Original Message]
> From: Michael Dossett <phainopepla@yahoo.com>
> To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> Date: 6/19/06 11:49:18 AM
> Subject: Re: [NAFEX] In Oregon, a Cherry Jubilee (NY Times)
>
> This trip is lots of fun to do though I would have to
> second Lon's caution: if you fill up on cherries all
> day, gas will be the least of your gastrointestinal
> problems :-D
>
> Michael Dossett
>
> --- "Lon J. Rombough" <lonrom@hevanet.com> wrote:
>
> > Been there, done that.   The Loop is even more fun
> > when the peaches are 
> > ready, though the late cherries and early peaches
> > overlap some as there 
> > are a couple of cherry growers at the highest
> > altitudes that pick in 
> > August.
> > One caution, DON'T spend the day eating cherries the
> > way the author did 
> > (or claims to have) unless you are ready to spend
> > several hours with 
> > the worst gas you ever had.
> > -Lon Rombough
> > Grapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape
> > Grower, at 
> > http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden
> > Writers Association 
> > "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.
> > On Jun 19, 2006, at 8:16 AM, Brungardt, Sam wrote:
> > 
> > If this doesn't want to make you climb in the car
> > and head west...
> > 
> > In Oregon, a Cherry Jubilee
> > By PABLEAUX JOHNSON
> > Fresh-fruit fanatics hit the Hood River Fruit Loop,
> > a
> > loosely affiliated network of orchards, produce
> > stands and berry farms 
> > in northwest Oregon.
> > 
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/16/travel/escapes/16fruit.html?th&emc=th
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