Fruity preserves remembering summer

All the berries are fading - great summer this was for berries with lots of sun and a little rain. The best berry jam making season I can remember. Stone fruits are suffering though - picked too early with or without sun. I am confused by the growers eagerness to get to market when no one wants hard tasteless fruit. I bought incredible nectarines from on farmer who could wait until the sun had done its alchemy and the fruit emerged juicy, rosy - remembering the taste of that fruit from my California childhood summers. Yum