Apricots drying in the Los Altos Hills orchard owned by the David and Lucille Packard Foundation.
I've been visitng the Packard Orchard in Los Altos Hills several times a year, in all seasons, since I returned to my home town. I learned about it from a girl I've known since kindergarten who told me you could buy a five-pound bag of dried apricots up there--if you called ahead.
That quantity of locally produced dried apricots available for purchase at an affordable price--well, it is almost unheard of today.
