It looks like a warm week coming up, so come early when it is cooler.  Picking for all the mid season varieties is excellent this week.  Honeycrisp will be plentiful thru the  coming weekend and we hope they will still be available next weekend as well.  Fruit this week will be more plentiful than later in the season.

The wooden apple is still waiting to be found – win an IPod.  There is plenty of cold cider.  Donuts will be back on Saturday and Sunday.

Lots of good Honeycrisp.  Donuts Saturday & Sunday.  More new cider.

The wooden  apple is out in the orchard.  Find it and win an iPod

Sylvia has made an orchard map to help you find where the varieties are located – mounted on the water tank

We will open Honeycrisp, Cortland, Macoun and  Fuji for picking on Friday Sept 15.  There are plenty of good McIntosh and Gala as well.   The photo shows nice looking Honeycrisp on trees we planted in 2014 – they are off to a good start.

Honeycrisp unlike most apples ripens in stages, so pickers need to choose the reddest apples and leave the others to ripen next week or the week after.  In commercial orchards the Honeycrisp trees are picked three times .

The crop this year (including Honeycrisp) is a good one and we need your help to get it picked.   There will be cider and donuts on Saturday & Sunday – donuts run out, so come early.

Best picking of the year for McIntosh and Gala is early in the season – the orchard is full of beautiful fruit.  Sansa and Ginger Gold are also available, but not as many as last weekend.

I picked up cider this afternoon, so we will have cider all week.  Mrs. Murphy’s  donuts will be here Saturday and Sunday – they run out, so come early.

Picture show McIntosh ready to pick.

We start our regular season tomorrow Friday September 8 and will now be open daily 9:00 to 5:30,  except closed on Mondays.  McIntosh (ripest  in the old orchard) and Gala are now ready.  We have a very good crop and picking will be prime.

There are still some Sansa and Ginger Gold that were not picked on early apple weekend.  Zestars were essentially all picked , except for a few small ones.  We have 45 more trees grafted last year over to Zestar, so in a couple more years we will have more Zestars.

Come help us kick off a new harvest.  Pictures show McIntosh and Gala near the barn.