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My newsletter from Peaceful Valley this week had a great article on preserving persimmons.
If I had some persimmons! So this started me thinking I need to plant some persimmons. Actually, persimmons grow wild here in Alabama, and on one archaeological survey of some isolated woods one fall I ran across a grove of native persimmons.
They do like to grow in groves at the edge of a woods. On this particular day in the late fall, the persimmons were starting to ripen. A band of local possums decided to celebrate the event, by having a baseball game with the persimmons. They were all over the ground, I could just pick them up and stuff into my backpack, thanks to the possum pickers!
Persimmons are such a rare treat, but only available in late fall when they are smacked by the first frost. So the idea of preserving persimmons was an appealing one for me.
