Gold Rush are Ripe! One of the Best for Cider/Hard Cider. Also Great for Eating, Baking and Salads.

Apple variety availability updated below on Monday, 10/19/15.

Gold Rush have a kick of flavor...tart with a hint of sweetness.

They are a good apple for many things.  Eating, Cooking, Baking, Applesauce, Salads, Juice and Hard Cider. Medium to small size.  Good Keepers too!  

My cousins made some cider with Gold Rush this weekend and they say it made the lightest, clearest cider compared to some of the other apples.  They liked using 3 Gold Rush to 1 Braeburn mix for the flavor.  They canned some too and will give me more feedback as it stores.  Companies that make hard cider call us frequently interested in the Gold Rush. 

We will most likely have apples to pick until mid November so you have lots of time to get all the apples you need!!  I will keep you posted on availability. 

 

Other Apple Variety Availability:

Fuji:  3 rows with trees still loaded halfway down.
Braeburn: Earlier I said we have 1/4 of a row left, but I forgot we still have a whole corner section in the older orchard area right by the road!!  So we have lots of Braeburn left. 
Golden Delicious:  So many left out there.  Ask us if you can't find them readily.
Red Delicious:  Plentiful.
Pink Lady:  10 trees left with apples.  The ones that aren't as pink, still have great flavor.  I did some taste testing :)
 Granny Smith:  Lots and lots. 
Rome:  2 rows with 1/4 of the row left.  The trees that have apples are loaded so there are still lots of apples available.
Jonagold:  Done.

 

Braeburn are finally ripe enough to pick! Also the Scavenger Hunt Winner is Announced!

They finally passed our taste test for being sweet enough!  They are ready to pick now!

Braeburn apples

Braeburn apples

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.

We have a full row of these, plus many trees in the corner section of the older area.

 

Other Apple Variety Availability:

Granny Smith:  Lots available.

Rome: Lots available.

Fuji: Tons and tons.  Lots of loaded trees out there.

Golden Delicious:  Lots and lots.  Just ask and we can make sure you can find them, because most are the in the front, older section of the orchard.  Such a sweet, crunchy eating quality right now. 

Red Delicious:  Many trees available in the front, older section of the orchard.  Ask and we can guide you to them.

Jonagold:  Getting pretty sparse.  You can still find some here and there at the far ends of the rows.

Melrose:  Done.

 

And the Scavenger Hunt Winner is........

Mary W and family!  Congrats you have won a free bucket of apples for your participation in our scavenger hunt.  Great job!

 

Thank you to all who attended our Apple Festival!  You guys made it fun!  It was a great time despite a little bit of windy/rainy weather later in the day. 

For our applesauce tasting, many people were surprised how much they liked the Golden Delicious!  That was a fun fact to learn.  Golden Delicious straight from the tree are definitely a different ballgame then from the store.  Melrose, Ruby Jon and Pink Lady were also among the favorites.

 

On another note, we pre-picked some buckets of many different varieties of apples.  If you are interested in them, they are $12 per bucket.  We will have them available for the next few days. 

Golden Delicious, Fuji, Rome, Pink Lady, Granny Smith, Braeburn available.

Golden Delicious, Fuji, Rome, Pink Lady, Granny Smith, Braeburn available.


Pink Lady is Ready!

It is not even middle of October quite yet....but the Pink Lady are ready!  Definitely a crazy year!  Pink Lady beat the Braeburn and Gold Rush to ripening which never happens!

Pink Lady are a great all-around apple. Tart-sweet flavor with firm crunch.  Our best keeping apple.  Great for baking, applesauce, and I really like it for drying.

Other Apple Variety Availability:

Fuji:  Lots and lots available.

Rome: 1/2 row left and the trees are loaded.

Granny Smith:  Lots and lots available.

Golden Delicious:  Lots and lots available.  SO good right now.

Red Delicious:  Lots and lots available.  Ask us to show you where they are.

Jonagold:  1/4 of a row left of each.  Such good flavor right now but they won't store a long time since they have been hanging quite awhile. 

Melrose:  May be gone by the end of today, but please ask because we do have a tree that is off by itself that we can take you too.