Apricot capital of the world
What city is known as the apricot capital of the world?
Patterson is a city in Stanislaus County, California, United States, located off Interstate 5. It is 27 miles southeast of Tracy and is part of the Modesto Metropolitan Statistical Area. Patterson is known as the "Apricot Capital of the World"; the town holds an annual Apricot Fiesta to celebrate with many drinks, food, desserts and games. The population was estimated to be 21,212 in 2014.
During the first weekend in June, Downtown Patterson hosts the town's largest celebration of the year, the Apricot Fiesta. The event begins on Friday with several beauty pageants. The Patterson Library hosts an art show during the celebration, and displays on local history are held unclosed to the public at the Patterson Museum, also known as the Center Building and located at the center of Patterson. The three-day celebration also features fireworks shows and, during preliminary mornings, hot air balloons retiring from the football stadium at Patterson High School.
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Will Xinjiang Apricots Dethrone Malatya as the World’s Apricot Capital?
By Mehmet Enes Beşer
Xinjiang, this vast northwestern Chinese province, is well-known not only due to its unique cultural identity and geo-strategically privileged position but also due to its intensive agricultural production. Of all the fruits grown here, a special place is occupied by apricots, both economically and culturally. Dry climate, abundant sunlight, and high differences between day and night temperatures common in this area are high-quality production conditions for apricots. Whereas Xinjiang apricots have both risen locally and globally, there is an interesting contrast to be drawn between these and Türkiye’s globally branded Malatya apricots—specifically in terms of the sun-drying heritage, flavor, and cultivation value.
Xinjiang apricot production is all about Kashgar, Hotan, and Turpan. These loess subregions with over 2,600 sunshine hours every year are the optimal cultivating environment for Prunus armeniaca, the common apricot species. There are several cultivars of apricots cultivated here. The apricots cultivated in these regions are usually medium-sized with soft
I drove over the Coastal hills in early June with some friends to experience the Apricot Fiesta in Patterson, the “Apricot Capitol of the World” and to visit George Bonacich at his Apricot ranch nearby. My first impressions of apricot orchards, Central Valley style? They are big and so are the fruit! The contrast between lush, irrigated orchards and the surrounding dry grassland hills is striking too. I felt a little like Dorothy, leaving my memories of the fertile, temperate, and forested Santa Clara Valley behind for this arid region of large scale orchard agriculture,”…we’re not in Kansas anymore!”
California’s Central Valley has a dramatically different climate and landscape than the Bay Area where apricot orchards were first cultivated in California. From the late 1800s through the 1960s, Santa Clara County was the “Apricot Capital of the World”, though it never boasted the title, with over 18,000 acres planted in Apricots at its peak. Renowned for its extravagant beauty as the Valley of Heart’s Delight, Santa Clara County enjoyed a unique confluence of benign climate, family farming culture and technologica
Every year on January 9th National Apricot Day is celebrated. Patterson was once the Apricot Capital of the World, growing and being the main supplier of the world's apricots in the 1970s where 40 percent of California's entire apricot orchards were located in Patterson.
“Patterson has been one of the best, multipurpose ¬apricots developed and commercialized in the apricot industry in the western United States. The town became the apricot hub—at one time ¬producing about 40 percent of the nation’s apricots. Even as recently as 2007, Patterson accounted for about 60 percent of the apricot ¬tonnage in California and 15 percent of the fresh market production,” according to the Good Fruit Grower.
Even though Patterson has lost the title of the Apricot Capital of the World, this small rural agricultural town was responsible for feeding and providing fruit to not just the country, but the entire world, holding and growing most of the apricots globally.
HISTORY OF NATIONAL APRICOT DAY
According to www.holidayinsights.com, the holiday was traced back to at least 2013, with many references to the holiday on Facebook. While there was a single reference stating the holiday was create
MALATYA CITY World’s Apricots Capital
The Unique Qualities of Malatya Apricots
What distinguishes Malatya’s apricots from ones cultivated in other regions? This is due to the climate, geography, and the implementation of traditional farming methods. Climate in Malatya, which includes long, hot summers and cold winters, is ideal for apricot growing because it provides necessary conditions for the crop to develop maximally. The area’s rich soils offer the essential nutrients that apricots require for their growth, while age-old farming methods that have been handed down from generation to generation make certain that the fruit is grown with love and care.
Malatya apricots are the champions of the family of apricots when it comes to their size, color, and taste. Malatya in particular, despite their vivid orange color, can compete with other apricot varieties in terms of dimensions. The dried version of the Malaya apricots keeps their bright color such that when compared to other varieties that darken or lose their shine, malayan dried apricots are the best high-quality options. The Malatya apricot’s taste is the other unique, charmant feature of it, which has a honey-like