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Interview with Jean Peterson, Nee Nelles - Jean Describes the varieties of fruit grown on the Nelles and Kitchen Family Farms

So we had apricots, nectarines and peaches, and all different kinds of plums and apples and pears. We didn't have much in the way of grapes. There was just sort of a dividing line between our farm and the next. Just one row of grapes that was sort of just for personal use, not to have them for sale. Of course we had a lot of cherries and then we had asparagus, oodles of asparagus and a lot of times you know when you were changing over an orchard, you know when the orchard has just got old and you want to sort of take stuff out and put new stuff in. When the trees were little you would have things like field tomatoes and squash and that sort of thing. And then we also had a lot of gooseberries which was one of my least favourite. And we had strawberries, a lot of strawberries, down where I have mentioned before where we put the apricots in, as they were growing we had strawberries all over which I hated picking. And then there were raspberries and we had blackberries and red currants. I liked picking black currants because I was really good at that for some reason I guess that would have been about all we had, what else is there?