Wednesday Walk: Back to the Farm for Peach Picking!

Hey there folks!  I hope everyone is having a great week so far!  No complaints here as we had a few really nice days that were a bit cooler (relatively speaking) than normal July weather in Atlanta.  Since it was so nice and I had a light training day on Monday, @dksart and I were able to head back down to Southern Belle Farm to do peach picking!  We had gone twice already this year for strawberries and blackberries, but I had been itching to go for peaches.  Up until Monday I was a peach-picking newbie.

Since I know @tattoodjay likes a nice stroll, I'll put this under his #wednesdaywalk tag to help encourage others to get out and explore their neighborhood and get some activity!  (Check out more here)  I believe I did another post with the same farm under this tag, but it is too pretty not to share again.  Plus we have some different scenery in the orchard.  This time around @dksart brought his camera, so this post has a mixture of pictures from both his camera and my phone.  I have permission to share, though definitely check out his page to see some of the other neat photos he took. :)

We did actually start out getting another bucket of blackberries.  I wasn't sure if they had any left, so we made sure to hit the berries first in order to be able to fill up a bucket.

I think they got quite picked over last week with the 4th of July holiday.  There was a good bit of unripened berries that will probably be perfect in a few days!

I had to get deep into some of the bushes, so I definitely got a little bit of a workout. ;)

But once you found some, they were juicy and delicious!  It took us a few rows, but we finally found one that had plenty of ripe blackberries.  I was tempted to try for a second bucket but didn't want to be stingy since there were other people trying to get these beauties, as well.

On to the peaches!  The orchard was just a short walk over from the blackberry patch.  There definitely was not any shortage of these.  The farm has been doing a great deal of pick two bags, get one free because the peaches are just falling off of the trees!

It is quite a beautiful and peaceful place.  Since we went on a Monday it was pretty slow.  There was a group with about 10 kids, but they sounded pretty well behaved.  For the most part @dksart and I were pretty well alone in fruity heaven.

I'll give you one guess who was doing most of the work again. ;)

I was having a good time, though, and he was in his element snapping some neat pictures.  All smiles when surrounded by nature on a pretty day.

We got our 3 full pecks easily to go along with our hard-earned blackberries.  It doesn't seem like a whole lot when you look at the bags, but once I got them home and weighed them it turned out to be about 35 pounds of peaches right here!

No need for a workout in the gym when you can get outside and do a farm workout.  I always have a much better appreciation of how hard our farmers have to work after spending a few hours picking my own food.

After paying for our haul, we took a stroll over to the other side of the farm where they do a lot of activities for the kids.  Big kids, too. ;)

That's about all for this visit!  I hope you guys enjoyed the walk around the farm.  If I end up getting through my mounds of peaches before the season is over perhaps we will make one more visit.  In just a few months apple season will be starting, so if nothing else we will definitely head up to another great picking spot then.  I'm pretty much ruined for store-bought fruit now, haha!