Peaches at Green Bluff

Last weekend my mother & I were in Spokane, WA visiting my grandmother. One of the items on Grandma's agenda was to drive up to Green Bluff to buy a case of peaches for here to put up for the winter. I was happy to oblige because I always enjoy Green Bluff.

Green Bluff Growers is an association of small family farms and food stands located about 15 minutes north of Spokane, nestled at the foothills of Mt. Spokane. It was formed in 1902 to protect local strawberry growers from outside competition and now focuses on agricultural tourism, The bluff is divided into two loops of farms, the East and the West, and offers a wide variety of fruits and vegetables either picked or you can pick them yourselves. There's even an alpaca farm, which intrigued my alpaca raising mother. There are many special events throughout the year such as the Cherry Pickers' Trot and Pit Spit in June. (what???)

Fall weekends are prime time. We had lunch and listened to live music and bought our peaches. My 95 year old grandmother had no trouble climbing in and out of the picnic table and whispered to me that she would dance on the table but it would probably upset my mom. We stayed off of table tops (always interesting, isn't it?) and continued on in search of apples at a few more farms but discovered we were about two weeks too early.

We couldn't pass up a frozen take and bake huckleberry-peach pie at our final stop, Walter's. The pie would be for tomorrow but when Grandma insisted on huckleberry ice cream cone we couldn't let here eat alone. The ice cream was fabulous and the pie out of this world! If I could finagle it I would fill my suitcase with frozen pies for home. It was all so good we had to return for lunch two days later and bought a huckleberry pie for Grandma's freezer.

Green Bluff is the type of place I love to visit. It's a destination for locals and well worth searching out as a tourist. You get a real sense of what the area is all about now and historically.

http://www.greenbluffgrowers.com/