06/16/2026
First COLORADO Organic Apricots of the summer!
We will be baking Apricot Galettes beginning this week: For telephone preorder in Cortez and preorder/walkup at the Telluride Farmer’s Market on Friday.
As many of you are aware, this has been a particularly difficult year for our farmers. The extraordinarily warm winter started trees budding early and then froze out all of the fruit blooms during the spring’s late frost. Many of our local growers lost their entire crops for the year, including The Pie Maker’s friends and organic fruit provider, Topp Fruits in Hotchkiss.
So this weekend the bakery went on a little roadtrip out to Palisade to pickup 500 pounds (!!) of Colorado grown, organic apricots from Rancho Durazno , a sister farm to Topp Fruits. We are thrilled to bring them home to you all, and to turn them into beautiful pies.
We had a gorgeous drive through the high deserts, forests, mountains, and orchard country of western Colorado. We saw firsthand the incredible amount of care, labor, and cost there is to growing and transporting our local foods.
Shop local, eat local, and fortify our communities whenever able. It depends on all of us!
