The Ripe And Ready list has had some exciting additions this week! Honeycrisp, Ruby Mac, and Golden Delicious Smoothie have been added. Watermelon are also ready to be picked!
Honeycrisp are a sweet, crunchy, delicious apple. Great for eating and baking. These sell out fast every year, so make sure to come soon for this popular apple.
Ruby Mac is a beautiful ruby red apple that has a great crunch and a super fun sweet flavor with a bit of tartness. They are wonderful to add for eating, baking, and applesauce. We especially love to mix them with any sweet apple to bring a complex flavor to our sauces and pies.
Smoothies are an early ripening Golden Delicious. They have all those fun qualities of a Golden Delicious, sweet, crunchy, great for applesauce and pies. They just pop up early so we don’t have to wait until the end of September to start enjoying them.
Watermelon are ripe and wonderful! We have our classic seedless variety again this year for u-pick, and will also have a couple varieties of our seeded pollinators pre-picked at the stand.
Tomatoes, Peppers, and Cucumbers are still plentiful and ready to be picked. The Roma tomatoes are especially plentiful in the Tomato section.
Flowers are looking lovely and available for u-pick as well as beautiful bouquets at the stand on weekends.
Pumpkins and Sunflowers should be ready in about two weeks.
RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Honeycrisp
Ruby Mac
Smoothie
HOURS:
Mon - Sat 8am-6pm
Sunday 11am-6pm
Gala Are Ready!
Thank you all so much for coming with such excitement to the orchard this week! We have never seen our Gravensteins fly off the trees so fast. They are practically done with maybe just a few left to be found within the farthest trees.
We are thrilled to announce that our Gala are now ready! They are the perfect size for a lunchbox for back to school lunches. They are sweet and crisp and they are outstanding for eating, and also make great applesauce and pies.
Cucumbers and Peppers are plentiful, and more and more tomatoes are ripening every day.
Our u-pick flowers are ready with a mix of zinnias, dahlias, and cosmos. The sunflowers this year will be a in a maze and will be ready by the first week in September.
RIPE AND READY:
Gala
HOURS:
Mon-Sat 8am-6pm
Sunday 11am-6pm
Season Starts Monday, August 12
Apple Season Is Here! We are starting with our Gravensteins. Gravensteins are a highly sought after traditional apple that are not known for their beauty, even seeming a bit ugly to us. But, boy do they make wonderful applesauce and pies. They go super fast every year so make sure to head out to the orchard soon if you were hoping to pick some this year. Gala should be popping up soon as well and will be quickly followed by Honeycrisp and Ruby Mac.
Tomatoes, Peppers, and Cucumbers are ready as well! We grew even more peppers and tomatoes this year and planted them sooner so we have a good amount of ripe and ready to be picked available now.
Watermelon, Sunflowers, and Pumpkins will be ready closer to the beginning of September.
We look forward to welcoming you all back out to the orchard!
