The Start of the Harvest

Up the fruit highway this morning, we found apricots, twenty dollars a bushel---that works out to about 30 cents a pound. But what do you do with a half bushel (30 pounds) of apricots?! Dry them of course! A new use for the greenhouse, and we get to put the food dryer that I made several years ago back to work.

What will we do with all those dried apricots? Chop them up and use them in homemade granola, snack mix, breakfast yogurt made from milk from our goats. Mix them into ice cream, smoothies, scones and biscuits. Eat them out of hand to kill a craving for sweets. Dip them in chocolate and give them to people at Christmas time.

Maybe we'd better go back and get some more...