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CBS News
3 days ago
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Weekend To Do List: Summer festivals and a luau for dogs in Massachusetts
Celebrate summer this weekend in Massachusetts with a peach and sunflower festival, a luau for dogs and a safety festival filled with activities and food for the whole family! Enjoy summer with peaches, flowers and more at a Peach and Sunflower Festival happening in Amesbury. The festival at Cider Hill Farm takes place Saturday and Sunday and again next weekend. Pick your own peaches and enjoy peach treats, along with other food trucks and hayrides. With live music, a cider bar, and cut-your-own bouquets, there's something for everyone. When: August 9, 10, 16, and 17 from 11 a.m. to 4 Cider Hill Farm, 45 Fern Ave., AmesburyCost: Free admission, items available for purchase Click here for more information and to register On Saturday, grab the pup and a Hawaiian shirt and head to a luau at Park-9 in Everett! The annual summer event includes fun prizes, a doggy pool party, tropical drinks, live music and food specials. The event takes place from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. When: Saturday, August 9, from 3 p.m. to 10 Park-9 Dog Bar, 48 Waters Ave. #1, EverettCost: Items available for purchase Click here for more information Also on Saturday, it's a summer safety festival in Sharon at Crescent Ridge Dairy. From 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., families can enjoy a free cookout, bouncy houses, cornhole, an obstacle course and a touch-a-truck experience the kids are sure to love. When: Saturday, August 9, from 11 a.m. to 3 Crescent Ridge Dairy, 407 Bay Rd., SharonCost: Free admission, ice cream available for purchase Click here for more information
New York Times
31-07-2025
- Entertainment
- New York Times
Peach Bingo!
The drive from Washington, D.C., where I lived for nearly a decade, to Atlanta, where I grew up, is a slog. I made the 11-hour trip at least a dozen times, and my homestretch harbinger was always the same: the Peachoid water tower in Gaffney, S.C. That coral orb grazing the skyline, the waning sun hovering just above it — that was my binary sunset. Never mind that I had a space opera's worth of highway still before me. On this last day of July, allow me to offer you a New Hope: There may be peaches on our horizon, but we are not yet in summer's homestretch. It can feel that way, with vacations wrapping and school approaching and every Luke, Leia and Han prematurely eulogizing the season. But we've got a lot more driving to do. Might I interest you in a game to pass the time? Tomato and Peach Salad With Berkoukes | Zucchini-Peach Salad With Creamy Lime Dressing | Upside-Down Peach Cobbler| Tomato and Peach Salad With Whipped Goat Cheese | Easy Buttermilk Peach Cobbler | Cold Tofu Salad With Tomatoes and Peaches | Peach and Cucumber Salad With Gochujang Vinaigrette | Peach Tea | Barbecue Vegetable Salad Last week, we kicked off a month of Summer Veggie Bingo with corn. (Have you won yet?) Today's card is a real peach. Cook your favorite row of three — sweet, savory, slurpable — to yell 'Bingo!' loudly to no one in particular, cook all nine just to prove you can, or cook none at all and wait for the next card, no spoilers. Want all of The Times? Subscribe.
The Independent
17-07-2025
- Business
- The Independent
Trump tariffs hit peaches as Greece fears dent in demand
July's peach harvest in Greece 's northern orchards, a period typically marked by meticulous picking and processing for canning, is now shrouded in uncertainty. The industry, which often supplies consumers in the United States, faces a significant threat following US President Donald Trump's announcement of a 30 per cent tariff on European products. This new levy has sent shivers through a range of European sectors, from wine and olive oil to the automotive industry. For Greek peach farmers and factory owners, the timing is particularly critical. As they prepare to send their fresh produce overseas, there is growing concern that the tariffs will severely dent demand, leaving them with little time to adapt or find alternative markets for their fruit. Greece is the world's biggest exporter of tinned peaches, about one fifth of which goes to the United States, its second biggest market after Europe. Peaches, like some other goods, are already subject to a U.S. import levy of 17%. The new tariffs could increase the total import duty to 47%. "Now is even worse because it finds us at the peak, where the entire plant and all the production lines are working at full speed," said Lazaros Ioannidis, co-owner of a peach and fruit processing plant near Naoussa that sends about 40% of its produce to big U.S. companies like Dole. The fertile plain of Central Macedonia in Greece is one massive peach orchard. A sea of pink greets visitors in the spring, when the trees blossom. This week, trucks offloaded crate after crate brimming with thousands of yellow peaches at Ioannidis' plant, where they were loaded onto conveyor belts for processing. Greece's annual turnover from exports of tinned peach and other packaged peach products amounts to more than 600 million euros, with about 120 million euros coming from the U.S. market. Exports to the United States represent about 4% of Greece's total exports. Canned peach and peach derivatives, olives and olive oil are the three top exported agriculture products to the U.S., bringing home about half a billion euros annually. More than 20,000 families, farmers and workers make their income from peach farms and peach factories in Central Macedonia, according to Kostas Apostolou, head of the Greek Canners Association. "Our size might be small as a percentage for the country or the EU but for the region its a big source of income, vital for it's survival." "For the past 6 months, since Trump took office, we have been in a period of an absolute turmoil," says Apostolou. He said that the only alternative is to diversify exports to Mercosur countries in South America or to Mexico and India and urged the EU to sign a trade agreement with those countries. The EU was planning to approve a trade deal with Mercosur but has faced opposition from some countries. Still, there are also optimists "Trump is unpredictable. We hope that he will prove that and he will change this decision," said farmer Vangelis Karaindros as he and his employees picked ripe peaches by hand.
Yahoo
16-07-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Trump tariffs send chill through Greek peach harvest
By Lefteris Papadimas NAOUSSA (Reuters) -July is harvest time in Greece's northern peach orchards, where pickers mount wooden ladders and carefully place the fruit in crates ready for factories that peel, slice and can them, often for consumers in the United States. But this year, the harvest is filled with uncertainty after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a 30% tariff on European products that has sent shivers through industries from wine to olive oil and autos. Peach farmers and factory owners are worried that the tariffs will dent demand for their produce just as they are preparing to send their fresh harvest overseas, giving them little time to adapt or find alternative markets. Greece is the world's biggest exporter of tinned peaches, about one fifth of which goes to the United States, its second biggest market after Europe. Peaches, like some other goods, are already subject to a U.S. import levy of 17%. The new tariffs could increase the total import duty to 47%. "Now is even worse because it finds us at the peak, where the entire plant and all the production lines are working at full speed," said Lazaros Ioannidis, co-owner of a peach and fruit processing plant near Naoussa that sends about 40% of its produce to big U.S. companies like Dole. The fertile plain of Central Macedonia in Greece is one massive peach orchard. A sea of pink greets visitors in the spring, when the trees blossom. This week, trucks offloaded crate after crate brimming with thousands of yellow peaches at Ioannidis' plant, where they were loaded onto conveyor belts for processing. Greece's annual turnover from exports of tinned peach and other packaged peach products amounts to more than 600 million euros, with about 120 million euros coming from the U.S. market. Exports to the United States represent about 4% of Greece's total exports. Canned peach and peach derivatives, olives and olive oil are the three top exported agriculture products to the U.S., bringing home about half a billion euros annually. More than 20,000 families, farmers and workers make their income from peach farms and peach factories in Central Macedonia, according to Kostas Apostolou, head of the Greek Canners Association. "Our size might be small as a percentage for the country or the EU but for the region its a big source of income, vital for it's survival." "For the past 6 months, since Trump took office, we have been in a period of an absolute turmoil," says Apostolou. He said that the only alternative is to diversify exports to Mercosur countries in South America or to Mexico and India and urged the EU to sign a trade agreement with those countries. The EU was planning to approve a trade deal with Mercosur but has faced opposition from some countries. Still, there are also optimists "Trump is unpredictable. We hope that he will prove that and he will change this decision," said farmer Vangelis Karaindros as he and his employees picked ripe peaches by hand. Sign in to access your portfolio
