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Texas Peach Country
Stonewall’s called the "Peach Capital
of Texas" and every June Stonewall is ripe with fun and festivities.
The third weekend of June is set aside for
a celebration of the Hill Country's sweetest product at the annual
Peach JAMboree, a time when the small community shares its fuzzy
treasure. The festivities are genuine Texas fun, from a rodeo with
bareback riding, calf roping, team roping, and bull riding to a
parade and a baking contest at the Fire Station.
Other activities include a fiddlers' contest
(open to competitors), a washer pitching tournament, and, of course,
the Gillespie County Peach Queen Pageant. The sweetest event is
the Peach Show and Auction, with plenty of prize-winning examples
of Stonewall's crop.
Gillespie County, including Stonewall and nearby Fredericksburg,
is filled with orchards where you can pick your own peaches. These
shady groves yield their fruit until late July and offer a dozen
varieties of peaches. The earliest to ripen are the cling peaches,
ones whose fruit clings to the pit. As the summer progresses, varieties
such as Red Skin, Loring, and Harvest Gold begin to mature.
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