Braeburn, Rome, and Fuji are ready!

Wow the Rome apples are beautiful this year!  They are well-known for being an excellent cooking/baking apple.  They keep their shape when baked, and are great for baking whole.

Braeburn are a great all-around apple with a sweet, firm crunch.   You can use it for pretty much anything...baking, applesauce, eating, etc.  Pretty good keeper too.

Fuji apples are sweet and great for eating and good for baking.

(Fuji are SO close...tasty now but will be even sweeter by next week.  You choose what you like!)

(Please forgive the alignment of this post.  I am having problems with it today!)

Other Apple Update:

We still have tons of Ruby Jon, Golden Delicous, Red Delicious, Jonagold and Melrose.

It may look like the rows are picked but if you walk halfway down, you will find the trees still loaded!

All pears are sold out for the season.  Thank you!

Don't forget about our 2nd Annual Apple Festival on Sat, October 18th from 10am-2pm!!

We will have applesauce tastings so you can see what apples you like best for sauce.

And apple sliced so you can taste the difference.

Plus a few apple art crafts for the kids and apple tours for anyone!

We love our customers!  She found some beautiful apples and was such a hard worker!  She was kind enough to let us take her picture :)

Red Delicious are ready.

The world's most well-known apple.  We all grew up with these in school it seems. Good for eating.  Much more tasty right off the tree...actually crispy and not mushy.

We have a half of row of them, plus random trees in the older section of the orchard.  The older section of Red Delicious are much more ripe and sweet right now than the single row.  The single row needs a little more time to ripen.  Ask us when you get here and we can point you in the right direction.

 Other Apple Update:

Jonagold:  Tons left.  We have many rows available.  So good!

Melrose, Golden Delicious, Ruby Jon:  Lots left.

Honeycrisp, Gala:  Done for the season.

Up Next:

Braeburn, Rome, Fuji, Gold Rush, Granny Smith are still a bit firm and ripening to get sweeter.   Sometime in October they will be ready.  Pink Lady are the last apple ready...usually mid to late October.  I'll keep you posted!

Ruby Jon apples and D'Anjou pears are ready!

Updated 9/19/14 Gala, Honeycrisp and Jonagold status below.

I have been waiting for this apple since last year when I discovered they make AMAZING applesauce!

They are part Jonathon so they are great for baking too.

They are a medium to small size mildly tart apple.

Come try then and see what you think!

D'Anjou pears have just been picked too!  Pre-picked only.

$6.00 for smaller bucket

$12 for large 5 gallon bucket

(Please Note:  The pears MUST be chilled in your fridge for 4-6 weeks in order for them to ripen.  If you leave them on your counter, they will eventually just rot without ripening.  The grocery stores have already done this step for you.  Don't want you to be disappointed!)

Other Apple Update: Updated 9/19/14

Jonagold:   All 9 rows are open for picking.

Golden Delicious:  LOTS of beautiful ones available.

Honeycrisp:  Not too much left.  If you hunt around, you will find some but plan on them being gone by Friday or Saturday.

Gala:  The main 2 rows of Gala have some apples left down at the farthest end but they are getting to be only applesauce quality.  They look beautiful but are getting soft when you bite into them.  Wonderful applesauce.  They are very sweet and wouldn't have to add a drop of sugar.

Melrose:  We have some ready to pick in the old part of the orchard. Please ask so we can show you!  The main row of Melrose are not sweet enough yet.  Need to wait a bit longer.

Just some fun pictures!