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Homely fruit for cheap!
It’s another installment in the “Save Money, Save Planet” series, with second-string fruit. But this is no secret — Boulder’s all over it. At the Boulder County Farmer’s Market, people line up to buy ever leftover not-so-pretty peach on offer. Why? Well, because it’d be a waste not to and because it’s cheap!
Heather Burtness gives a customer a look at a box of seconds peaches at the Morton's Orchards booth at the Boulder County Farmer's Market last Wednesday. Photo by Paul Aiken
“We have growers who sell seconds at the market,” said Cheryl Namowicz, manager of the Boulder Farmer’s Market. “People come to the market 45 minutes early and start lines, waiting for seconds because they see the value in a visually imperfect product that tastes the same.”
“They’ve got dimples in them, they’ve got branch rub (a slight scarring on the skin which occurs when the fruit grows around a branch), or they’re overripe,” said Dave Morton, who runs the orchards in Palisade, about the seconds. “There’s something that keeps them from being a No. 1 peach.
“But people love ‘em.”
Morton sold his seconds for a dollar a pound this summer.
Read more about the Boulder County Farmer’s Market and second-string fruit at the Camera.
