Largest Apple Contest Week #1 Winner

The First week of the Largest Apple Contest has a winner! Colin won week #1 with an Apple weighing in at 1.30 pounds. It is the winner for week #1 and also the largest apple ever found in the orchard! Congratulations to Colin, they 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!
Also, we were excited to discover that Cripps Pink were ready to be picked this morning, so they have been added to the Ripe and Ready 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.

RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Melrose
Red Delicious
Golden Delicious
Braeburn
Rome Beauty
Gold Rush
Granny Smith
Cripps Pink

HOURS:
Mon-Sat 8am-6pm
Sunday 11am-6pm

4925 Rockdale St NE, Brooks, OR 97305

Gold Rush, Granny Smith, and Pumpkins

We have made it to the sweet spot of the 2024 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 10 different varieties to choose from! This week, Gold Rush, and Granny Smith were added to the list.
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.
Flowers are still available for u-pick as well. The Sunflower maze is in what will most likely be it's last weekend with blooms. Make sure to take a stroll through it before the flowers are all gone. We will continue to have the other u-pick flowers available until the first frost. Beautiful bouquets will also be available at the stand on weekends until the first frost.
Tomatoes and Peppers are in abundance! They are looking wonderful and are a quick pick with how loaded the vines are. These will continue to be ready in abundance until the first frost as well, which shouldn't happen for several more weeks.

RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Jonagold
Melrose
Golden Delicious
Red Delicious
Fuji
Braeburn
Rome Beauty
Gold Rush
Granny Smith

HOURS:
Mon-Sat 8am-6pm
Sunday 11am-6pm

Largest Apple Contest

It is officially October! Which means, for the fifth year, it is time for our Largest Apple Contest! This year we will have a winner every week in the month of October! We will announce the winner of the week every Monday starting on October 7th. The contest winner every week will receive TWO FREE BUCKETS OF U-PICK APPLES! The contest is judged by weight of the apple and the apple has to have been found in our orchard. We have a scale at the stand so make sure to stop and have your largest apple recorded to be entered to win the weekly prize! We will record the size of you apple, and your contact information so we can call the winner and let them know they won.

RIPE AND READY:
Gala
Honeycrisp
Jonagold
Melrose
Red Delicious
Golden Delicious
Fuji
Braeburn
Rome Beauty

HOURS:
Mon-Sat 8am-6pm
Sunday 11am-6pm

4925 Rockdale St NE, Brooks, OR 97305

(503)393-1077

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