Paloma Peach
"Howdy from the Texas Hill Country. I come from a little town called Stonewall, the capital of the Texas peach industry. Visitors come from far and wide to line up at Stonewall's roadside markets each spring for bushels of ripe peaches and bowls of homemade peach ice cream.
Peaches originally came from China and were brought to America with the first colonists. They have always been admired for their sweet goodness. Queens have served them in jeweled boxes as gifts. Peaches are definitely a gem when it comes to nutrition. The vitamin C in peaches gives skin a healthy glow and strengthens gums, teeth, bones and blood vessels." |
Paloma Peach |
Learn more about Texas peaches:
Texas peaches come in two varieties, clingstone and freestone. With clingstone peaches, the pit or seed is held tightly in the fruit's flesh. The freestone's pit falls easily out when the fruit is sliced.
Did you know that Texas harvests the country's earliest crop of peaches every year? It's true! Peaches are grown primarily in the Hill Country in central Texas and in east Texas.
Texas is one of the top 10 states in utilized peach production. At last count, Texas produced about 360,000 bushels of peaches a year.
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