Farmer J.T. Lemley called to tell me that this will be the last weekend to buy boxes of peaches from him. "We still have peaches and will about two more weeks," he said. That, and the fact the Ham Orchards...
Richard Strange, who's part of the Ham family, says that Loring peaches are now in the Ham Orchards store. "People have been waiting for this peach to come in all year," he writes in an e-mail, "and they are starting...
My dad got a tip from a farmer in Weatherford, who said not all the peaches had been wiped out. The guy advised anyone interested in Parker County peaches to ply the highway between Weatherford and Mineral Wells (U.S. 80)....
J.T. Lemley just called to let me know that the tomatoes are rolling in. He sold out last Sunday at the Dallas Farmers Market (Shed No. 1 stall), but thinks he'll have plenty from here on out. "They can have...
YES! Fresh peach season has begun with Whole Foods Market's organic Mexican peaches. Every year, these peaches surprise me: They're in way ahead of the local season (no wonder, given where they're grown), and they always have wonderful sweetness and...
The Sig-O and I were already going to the Hill Country this weekend to help master sommelier Guy Stout harvest his syrah in Blanco. So we decided to return via State Highway 281 and stop at Hico for chicken-fried steak...
Sailing through Shed No. 1 at the Dallas Farmers Market for my Lemley tomato fix, I noticed that we've got Parker County peaches this week next door at Nancy's, and Jacksonville Best tomatoes next to her. Lemley's tomatoes were smaller...
Sourcing ingredients locally is challenge enough for restaurants. (It's the logistics, among other things.) But it can be doubly daunting for a hotel, with ever-multiplying levels of bureaucracy. So 10-gallon hats off to Cafe on the Green chef de cuisine...
In a move to draw attention to local sourcing, a Greenz press release proudly trumpeted its new Grilled Texas Peach Salad "with grilled Texas peaches and Vidalia onions fresh from Dallas' own Farmer's Market." Do you see the problem here?...
I know this might be hard for some to believe, but even Central Market and Whole Foods Market shoppers are looking for ways to save money on groceries these days. They'd do well to take a look at "Your Money:...
At the Weatherford Farmers Market (which is more of a public market, given its many grocery-store-type imports like cherries and mangos), I found Parker County peaches yesterday. They were a nice size, smelled good, but were not quite ripe. I'm...
Cruising the newly remodeled aisles at the Dallas Central Market, I can safely report that summer fruits are coming into their own. The West Coast cherries are still the less-sweet, early-season variety, but the Cooper Farms peaches from Central Texas...
Richard Ham writes in from Ham Orchards to tell me that this weather has unleashed the blackberries, which are ready for all "pick-your-own" comers this weekend. The early season peach varieties are ripening, too. He reports that the stand/store/orchard has...
I know I must look peculiar sniffing peaches. But that's the only way to tell if you're talking real peach or baseball wannabe. I was at the Lomo Alto Whole Foods Market, dithering between the Mexican organic peaches, which were...
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