Resolution 22065 Kumquat Pie official pie of Pasco County
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Resolution number twenty-two oh sixty-five, a resolution by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, declaring the Kumquat Pie as the official pie of Pasco County. Whereas kumquats, a miniature citrus fruit, first arrived in Pasco County in the late 1800s, and whereas since their arrival, growing kumquats has become both a hobby and a commercial activity that grew the town of St. Joseph into a leader in kumquat production, and whereas St. Joseph's rich and flavorful
history in kumquat production laid the groundwork for Dade City. To become the host of Florida's only Kumquat Festival, the Dade City Kumquat Festival. And whereas the Kumquat Festival brings tens of thousands of visitors to Dade City every year to experience our vibrant community while they enjoy a bounty of Kumquat-based products. And whereas for generations the Goody family has played a role in the growth of Kumquat production. since they first settled in the St. Joseph community
in eighteen eighty-three. And whereas the Goodye family are renowned for their hand in making Dade City the Kumquat capital of the world, And whereas Kumquat Pie, an iconic dish that represents the history of the Kumquat in Dade City, was created by Rosemary Goody and is the most popular kumquat product served and sold at the annual Dade City Kumquat Festival. And whereas on January 26, 2022, the Pasco County Tourist
Development Council voted to name the Kumquat Pie. pie as the official pie of Florida's sports coast. And whereas the Board of County Commissioners voted to name the Comquat Pie as the official pie for Pasco County. Now, therefore, be it resolved by the Board of County Commissioners of Pasco County, Florida, that the said board hereby designates and declares the Cumquat Pie as the official pie of Pasco County. Done and resolved in regular session with a quorum present in voting this eighth day of February
2022. Move for approval. Second.
All in favor? Aye. I don't know. I was gonna say, what about the blueberry pie? But
You're in district. Yeah, wait. You happen to be in district one. Blueberry key can
come into play.
Of be the fistle jam.
There you
go. Um all right, Commissioner Oakley the floor is yours.
Yeah, oh thank thank you, Madam Chair. If we could have the duty family, if you don't mind, if you could come up to the the podium right there for a second. Whoever would like to come up. Mr. Goodye too. Let's pitch your
ball.
So let me let me give you a little history of how this got rolling. So the Tourist Development Council, we had our meeting two weeks ago. We were talking about the Comcot Festival and we have John Morris from the Dade City Chamber here as well. We're gonna have him come up and take a picture in a second with us. We were seeing the pictures of this miraculous Kumquat Pi, and we know the history behind it here in Dade City and across the Pasco County. So wouldn't it be a great idea to make Kumquat Pie the official pie of Florida
Sports Coast, which is our obviously our tourism arm of Pasco County? So we voted on that. Said, well let's go to the next level. Let's make this bigger. It needs to be the official pie of Pasco County as a whole. So that's what we brought to you today. It was voted on. It is officially Officially. The pie Of Pasco County, the cumquat pie. And the the family and we'll l I'm gonna let you say a few words in a sec second here, the Goody family, pioneers in the cumquad industry. But
His your wife, your mother, was the creator of Quumquot Pie. And there's her picture right there. Miss Rosemary was the creator of Quumquat Pie. So we are thrilled to have you here today. to celebrate, you know, your history, your family's history, and the pit and the history of Pasco County and Cumquats. So thank you for being here. We really appreciate it. And I know you have a few words. You can tell us more than I said about the history of Cumquat and Comquat Pie and why it's so important to Pasco County.
The the Comquat Pie the Comquats are so important because for years we we always brought money into this county. We didn't we didn't use have a lot of local sales. All of our sales were always abroad in the the Northeast and out of the country and even as far over in California in the original years. But that money came to Pasco County. Um and so it was spent. It was spent by our workers, it was spent by us. you know, re rebu buying things in Pasco County, um supporting,
you know, the clothing, the ever all of our workers would buy gas, food, whatever. But as time went on, we had disease, we had freezes. Now after the 1983-85 freeze, we lost our identity in a sense, because we were originally used with leaves to put in um citrus packages and used for death. We shipped. Back then probably thirty to fifty thousand bushel of kumpquats and there were three of us, three different people that were doing that before the eighty three freeze. Then came citrus
canker which quarantined us where we could only do the Kumquat by the fruit itself. And we had lost our identity because all the little fruit stands all over in the Pasco County and all the counties north of here and east of here, They lost their fruit stands because of the quarantine, also because of the freeze. After that we kinda had to create things. We already had marmalades, jellies, jams, stuff like that, chutney made out of kumpluks. But my mother came up with this kumpot pie recipe. Um after a while we
put that recipe in every little container that we shipped. We still today put that inside of our our container that we sh sell to the to publics. Um As time went on, then they created the Kumquat Festival 25 years ago. The kumquat pie was the big hit. Everybody came to find out what kumkluts were all about, and meanwhile they tasted this pie. This pie is a very simple pie. Anybody can make it, whether you're a baker or not, because it's just um doing ingredients. We make the pies at our packing
house. Um we sell them to other places and also to individuals that come by and and buy the pie and buy the marmalades and jellies and all the come quotes themselves. We appreciate you all recognizing us. It's been a long rough rough industry. We're still fighting citrus greening, diaprepes, and citrus canker. But we have also have a bigger demand than we could ever grow. Um there are so m so many people they use it in beers and wines now. and also some uh ciders.
So it can be used for all kinds of things. You can take a kumquat and drop it in a glass of water. And I could spend the next four hours talking about cumquats. So I'm gonna let this go, but thanks to mom. Yeah
well stay here for one second. Madam Chair, can we bring Adam Thomas up um from Florida Sports Coast We wanna talk about the importance of what cumquats actually do for tourism in Pasco County. And how they work very closely with the Dade City Chamber and John Moore's.
Well they uh as as everyone knows, the Kumquats are unique to to Pasco County and it brings over forty thousand people in on an annual basis to actually attend the Kumquat Festival. So as a tourism perspective, it's a in an economic impact at the uniqueness of the selling proposition of Cumquats, you can't even say without breaking a smile. So it's very unique to our our marketing efforts and the partnerships that we have within the city of Dade City. So Yeah. Thank you for coming out.
Yes, Mr. Alpha.
Well, I I shared in purchasing the cuncots from him when I had the citrus uh plant right there at 54 and 75. Uh the freezes. We had seven freezes during the eighties which was tough for him and tough for us. We're all dealing in citrus and And we use those uh convoits in different packages and shipping them out. So we we shared business uh throughout those years and uh I don't know how Greg and his family have held up to do this, but they've had
an uphill battle ever since. But you gotta commend them for carrying on and and keeping this alive and hopefully the weather and the diseases go away so you can even flourish more. Um it's it's just been a a great part of our community here and we appreciate what you do. We were talking earlier about how the growth is coming to some of the rural area and you have to be when I was shipping fruit, I had to be careful when I sprayed my grapefruit for fresh grapefruit because it might blow on to another neighboring
home nearby in the rural area. And so we had to be very careful. He has that same thing happening to him. And um we share in doing the same kind of business like that soon spring but Uh I certainly appreciate the Goody family very much.
Can you say again while uh folks are listening from all over where where it is they can go buy your products?
Um right now right now our products are available at our packing house. Which is where? Which is um St. 31647 Goody Road, Dade City, Florida. It's six miles west of here at our little packing house. We bought here in um in town. There's um the uh farmhouse uh pro market and cafe that sells our products. Um also the Jiffy store in San Anne and Charlie's Market out in Saint Joseph. We're close we're gonna be closing down
our gift shop to two days a week. um because of the fact we don't have a lot of ripe kumquamps right now and we don't have our commercial business. So we're just gonna hold down to that. But um the pies are available in any one of those four places. I
know someplace on the west side that might be able to carry them too.
I didn't I don't have them carried them at the um at the at your um Do
we have pies there right now?
We don't have them yet. Okay, well I'll have to come
by
there after
even maybe today and get some. We'll work and we can
we can supply them. We've got to
Yeah Chair. There's also we all have a piece in front of us if we want to try it before we walk down, but there's Actually in the hallway, if you're here in the audience today, you came the right day because you're gonna be able to taste a piece of Kung Kwod Pie yourself. In the hallway, compliments of Florida sports coast in the Goodyear family.
All right, well we're moving down the line. So Commissioner Fitzpatrick.
I would like to say thank you for everything that you do. And I remember picking kumquats off my neighbors' trees and all my friends' trees. So I hope our youth can enjoy kumquats for years to come. And I will be having to stop at your store very soon. Pie is delicious.
Well thank you. Um that is the other funny thing about a kumquat. If you go somewhere and you wear a shirt that says the word kumquat on it, you better re be willing to talk to people 'cause they're gonna ask you what's a kum quad. And by the time you're done, um, you know, we had a we had a story of a guy that was at a Georgia State fair, he was wearing in one of our kumquat grower shirts and um he that he had bought from our shop and he was standing there and he somebody said, Well what's a custompla? and his wife ended up sitting down, going to
the car, finally went up to him after forty five minutes, said, Look, we need to get an affair. You need to quit talking about gumplay. So you can really get yourself tied up. But I love all the stories. The my mother's brothers, uncles, sisters, cousin used to bring 'em for me when they come to Florida, you know, all these different people that would that would come to Florida get kumfuts and take 'em back north. Of course back then they didn't have the pie, they didn't have a lot of the other things. So, you know, we're unique to grow 'em here in Pasco County.
Um we love Pasco County. We're not going anywhere of course 'cause we have our roots are pretty deep. So, you know, we just appreciate y'all acknowledging us.
Hey Commissioner Mariano.
I like to say, uh I remember first coming to the Comcot house for the first time trying that cumcot pie. It was absolutely delicious. Uh I I will apologize that we should have done this years ago. Apologize for that and I just want you to know there's a sure Jacum quad fine district five.
There you go. Thank you, sir. Chairman say one more thing. Well I was hunting in Georgia in November. I have my uh name and all my personal officers across the street. and my number's there. A gentleman called me. I answered the phone in Georgia. He said, is this the place where Comquat Festival happens? And I said, yes, sir. It's very it's coming up soon. So John Moore's, uh the word's out and everybody hears it. So but I got that call
this year and I said it was pretty amazing. Again, it just called me out of the blue. Is this where Comquat Festival happens?
Is there going to be a sticker on your pies that says the official Pasco County Pies? Yeah, that's
I'm gonna
have
to do that.
Thank you. Thank you. Can I get some funding for that? It goes into the
And your picture of your mother too? We need this.
Dad won't be talking about it.
I I wanna say just a few things. Greg does such a wonderful job of talking to you. uh that I don't have to say much. But I wanna say that Comport Rose was founded in 1971. We've been in business now for 50 years. Nice. And uh we started as a as an organization owned by five growers. And now we're down to just the two of them, two families, the Goody family. and the Nyehopper family.
So that's who we're owned by right now. And I uh I don't want to let the Nye offers out of it 'cause they contributed a whole lot to it too. I also want to thank two organizations The Catholic Woman's club In San Antonio. The first year I look for somebody that that would sell our pies at the festival. We didn't have enough people for it to go to go around. So What I did is I went to the women's club in San
Antonio. and sold them on the idea of of uh Take a lead project. They did. They made 600 pies. Wow. Yeah. On faith that they would sell 'em at the festival. They sold out.
Nice, nice, nice. Yeah.
And they've been selling out almost every year since that. Thank you. Thank you.
W you want us to stay up here?
I love the set
design.
Let's spread out this a little bit real quick.
There we go. There we go. There we go. That
fits what you got.
Oh yeah. Well there's a lot of people, that's what we got. Yeah, Mr. Julia hold this with us here. Let's do the other one. So we'll look at Ryan first, and then I'll step in and do a photo back. Right here. One, two, three. Thank you.
All right. Should I hold up my pie slide?
Yeah. Everybody Look look right at me, please. Yeah. Speak the miles.
Commissioner, can you look at the community? Hold on, what is John in here too? Oh John? Alright, I'm gonna take a little try while we're waiting.
So So light well much pie line
right here.
Alright. Everybody look right at me, please. Alright, big smile, one more.
Excellent.
All right, good job.
Good job, Greg. No
entitled to a second.
Is someone there today, later
to actually guess how
you can do that?
Yeah. That gives me a free.
Now you guys in the
audience, this isn't the normal occurrence in the County Commissioner, we don't hang out pie
usually.
It's usually very boring in here.
Yeah, it's gonna be
Okay, one more bike.
Do we have any polls? like a scent. I think that's really good at all. I don't have a a push here.