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Cooking up the fruit before it goes to waste.

About ten days ago or so the city of Fort Collins began spraying for mosquitoes as we already had several reported cases of West Nile Virus in town. The city web page advised closing all windows and shutting off AC if you had it. They also said to cover your garden. Well, we can’t cover the plum or apple tree so I went out and pulled the largest and softest plums. I only got a little bit picked before we heard the truck on our street. But by the end of last week the plums we hadn’t just eaten were nearing over-ripeness. Luckily it coincided with a slight reprieve in the heat so I cooked up a batch of plum butter.

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