Some grew their own apricots, grapes, berries, apples, pears, plums, currants, and cherries. The Yakima Valley produces many fruit crops, including apples, peaches, pears, cherries, and melons. There were orchards for fruit production, including apples, pears and plums. Cooking onions will absorb odours from apples and pears. Cottage cheese is also popular with fruit, such as pears, peaches, or mandarin oranges. Other products include peppermint, spearmint, bamboo, medicinal herbs, apples, pears, peaches, loquats, ginkgo. Farther north, apples, pears, plums, and wild strawberries were more common. Hazel nuts, apples, pears, sloes and acorns were collected. Examples include beach plums, American persimmons, pawpaws, Pacific crabapples, and prickly pears. Plums, pears, and strawberries are also grown in Michigan. Aged Edam is often eaten with traditional "cheese fruits" like pears and apples. Residents harvested fruit and vegetables such as cantaloupes, corn, figs, pears and watermelons. They have been observed feeding on peaches, pears, apples, and grapes in captivity. Some other fruits are found in other mojito recipes&colon; pears, raspberries, and oranges. During this period, crops of apples, pears and alfalfa became plentiful.