I think pretty soon we will start grossing a Million a year if fruit trees and fruit prices continue to climb. Vegetables are even expensive. I noticed lots of things like zuchini are 1.19 a pound now. Butternut squash are 2.99 a pound. I was shocked at the price of fruits and vegetables. I’m guilty of only buying blueberries and sweet cherries the last couple of months. I have sticker shock i bought some normal groceries this week.
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happy to have a large freezer of frozen fruit and a pantry full of squash. got about 30lbs. ea. of russian banana, caribou russets and norland red potatoes from my 20 gal pots also. potatoes are free here if you go in the fields after harvest and pick up what the harvester missed. $11 -15 a 50lb bag from the potato house. but they seem to taste better like everything else, if grown yourself. having bbq ribs with smashed russian banana and local grown corn for dinner tonight.
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Been to two PYO apple orchards this week. One was $20 a peck, the other was $24.
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What will be the price for in-shell bulk pecans in the grocery stores in late 2025?
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Yes, very $$. Lots of it is garbage, at least the stone fruit.
This summer peach trees didn’t produce much. I bought some storebought peaches and white nectarines. Most of it had to be trashed. All rotten or they would not ripen at all. They pick the fruit green, buff off the fuzz and they coat them with wax’s and antifungals. No fragrance at all for a lot of them.
Plums were all bad. Garbage and all had to be trashed…inedible. Really sad.
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Here in pecan growing fool land you are seeing $26-33 per 5 pound in shell bags retail. Pecans as an average are about 5.5% higher wholesale {Thanks to Helene}.
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Store-bought figs sold in the Rustbelt…$1.49 each. Only at greengrocer. Box stores never have them. These are what they are like ‘fresh’ from the store.
Asian pears unripe $2 each.
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My wife loves everbearing / day neutral strawberries and everbearing raspberries for how long we can pick fresh fruit for our kids lunches and avoid buying fruit from the store
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cane fruit is stupid expensive here and has almost no flavor because it comes from MX! that makes no sense as they are super easy to grow. i get it, the labor to pick isnt cheap but damn, get the migrant workers to come here to harvest like most of our other high labor fruits. at least the fruit would be alot fresher. glad i got lots of them that were picked dead ripe then frozen single layer on sheet pans then poured into ziplocks. i just pour out what i need and thaw. just as good as fresh.
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I feel like I got into fruit and specifically berries/strawberries just in time. The costs of berries has absolutely skyrocketed this year and particularly in the last 3 months. Last week, a standard container of organic strawberries was $7.49!!! Sure, they go up out of the standard seasons, but these are still from America, not Mexico yet (we get those in winter) and I’ve never seen prices like this. Unattainable prices. No work force to pick berries. Fruit has always been hard to afford for many Americans. I would imagine that even more are having to pass and move to the processed food aisles.
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And even more worth it when you discover how tasteless store-bought strawberries are compared to ripe ones you can grow at home
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Totally. My littlest was so funny this year after finally trying our strawberries and raspberries and realizing he liked them. He would look at me all suspicious handing him fruit and interrogate me, “where did you get this?” Like I might be trying to give him grocery berries.
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