We have made it to the sweet spot of the 2023 Apple Season! We have both the early sweet apples still Ripe and Ready, and all of the winter apples are popping up as well. Right now we have 14 different varieties to choose from! This week, Cripps Pink, Gold Rush, and Granny Smith were added to the list.
Cripps Pink are a great sweet-tart apple that are wonderful for snacking, baking, applesauce, and storing. We did a contest a few years back and made an apple crisp out of every variety in the orchard and blind tested them. The Cripps Pink was a unanimous winner! They are better known as Pink Lady.
Gold Rush is a very fun apple. It is a tart-sweet apple with a great crunch. It is great for snacking, baking, applesauce, storing, and our very favorite choice for apple cider. This apple almost tastes like it is carbonated. If you haven't ever tried one, we highly suggest you do.
Granny Smith is your classic green apple. A tart apple that sweetens when baked and makes the most amazing pies. These are great for storing as well.
Pumpkins are doing great! We still have a plentiful supply of classic carving pumpkins and a decent supply of decorative as well. We have had a lot of people ask if we have good pumpkins for baking. We do! We have a small section of baking specific pumpkins to choose from in the patch. We have also found that the blue and pink decorative pumpkins are wonderful for baking as well.
Pears are back! We have another picking of our Bosc pears already picked at the stand!
Tomatoes and Flowers are still available for u-pick as well. We will have them until the first frost.
RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Honeycrisp
Jonagold
Ruby Mac
Melrose
Golden Delicious
Ruby Jon
Red Delicious
Liberty
Fuji
Rome Beauty
Gold Rush
Granny Smith
Cripps Pink
HOURS:
Mon-Sat 8am-6pm
Sunday 11am-6pm
Largest Apple Contest Week #1 Winner
The First week of the Largest Apple Contest has a winner! Magnolia Jo won week #1 with a Melrose Apple weighing in at 1.20 pounds. It is the winner for week #1 and also the largest apple ever found in the orchard! Congratulations to Magnolia Jo, she won two free buckets of u-pick apples. We start week #2 today, so make sure to stop in at the Apple stand and have your largest apple weighed to enter week #2. The winner will receive TWO FREE BUCKETS of u-pick apples!
RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Honeycrisp
Jonagold
Ruby Mac
Melrose
Golden Delicious
Ruby Jon
Red Delicious
Liberty
Fuji
Fuji, Rome Beauty, Pears, and Pumpkins
The sunshine is sticking around and giving us another beautiful weather weekend for Apple Picking! This week we have added Fuji and Rome Beauty to the Ripe and Ready list.
Fuji is a very popular, sweet, crunchy fall apple. They are great for snacking, baking, applesauce, and the first storing apple of the year to pop up. When stored well, our storing apples can last anywhere from 3-6 months! Last year we sold out of these in less than five days, so don't miss your chance to pick some Fuji this season.
Rome Beauty is a beautiful, ruby red apple. These are wonderful for baking whole, and lovely in a pie as well. Rome Beauty is also a storing apple.
Pears are back! The Bosc pears are finally ripe and available, already picked, at the stand! Bosc are a wonderful hard pear that does not need any extra ripening.
Pumpkins are fantastic! We have been amazed by the colors that are coming out of the decorative pumpkin patch, and excited to see how you all carve the traditional pumpkins coming out of the classic patch.
We still have u-pick flowers, gourds, and squash as well.
RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Smoothie
Honeycrisp
Jonagold
Ruby Mac
Melrose
Golden Delicious
Ruby Jon
Red Delicious
Liberty
Fuji
Rome Beauty
