{"id":7042,"date":"2012-07-17T11:53:05","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T18:53:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=7042"},"modified":"2012-07-17T11:53:05","modified_gmt":"2012-07-17T18:53:05","slug":"dig-those-california-peaches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/dig-those-california-peaches\/","title":{"rendered":"Dig Those California Peaches!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" title=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/mpeach.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photos:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/marysville-peach-festival.html\">Marysville Peach Festival<\/a>, held July 20-21, 2012,\u00a0 <!--StyleSheet Link--><!--StyleSheet Link-->marysvillepeachfest.com<\/p>\n<p>When famous rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd sang, &#8220;Well I dig you Georgia peaches, makes me feel right at home,&#8221; they were probably referring to Georgia&#8217;s once dominant position as top producer of peaches in the U.S. But now they should be digging California peaches since it is the nation&#8217;s top peach growing state.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-peaches.html\">CALIFORNIA PEACHES<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2 types of peaches &#8211; clingstone (fruit enmeshed with seed, used in canning) and freestone (eaten as fresh fruit)<\/li>\n<li>California Freestone varieties are harvested from April through October<\/li>\n<li>California Clingstone peaches are available from mid-July to mid-September<\/li>\n<li>California produces nearly 100% of the processing cling peaches in the Central Valley &#8211; San Joaquin &amp; Sacramento Valleys<\/li>\n<li>Cling peaches are almost solely used for canning and rarely found fresh<\/li>\n<li>Sutter County, followed by Stanislaus, Yuba, Merced, Fresno, Butte and San Joaquin are top growing regions<\/li>\n<li>2 or 3 pickings per orchard based on color may be required since fruit does not grow uniformly<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>POPULAR PEACH DESERTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Peach Pie<\/li>\n<li>Peach Cobbler<\/li>\n<li>Peach Melba<\/li>\n<li>Peach Ice Cream<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photos:\u00a0 Marysville Peach Festival, held July 20-21, 2012,\u00a0 marysvillepeachfest.com When famous rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd sang, &#8220;Well I dig you Georgia peaches, makes me feel right at home,&#8221; they were probably referring to Georgia&#8217;s once dominant position as top producer of peaches in the U.S. But now they should be digging California peaches since it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}