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Peaches 2019 - The Glass Half Full
By Brad Schwan, Schwan Orchards, Catawba Island
duction. By 1915 almost the entire township was a mass of peach orchards. The ma- jority of those survived until the 1950’s when land values provided the aging farmers a nice way to exit the tem- peramental vocation.
Today there are only a few of us brave (or foolish) peach farmers to continue the Catawba peach tradi- tion. We face the same tri- als that our predecessors did. This year, for exam- ple, there were two nights in January that dipped to minus eight degrees. Those two nights of extra cold cost us about fifty percent of this
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year’s crop. Peach trees’ they produce and at that years ago, the tempera- fruit buds are actually on temperature half of the tures dropped to minus
When I was a young man my mother had a friend who had a peach or- chard on Catawba Island. She had a standing order for a big bunch of peaches each year which would turn into several of my favorite peach pies. I can vividly remember the annual ques- tion “How are the peach- es this year?” I found this
didn’t mean “How do they taste?” Often the reply was, “No peaches this year”. Subconsciously I came to understand the fragile na- ture of this endeavor. Per- haps that challenge is what drew me to grow peaches myself.
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