Closed Until Sept. 1

   Our thornless blackberry season has now ended.  Since we have no peach crop in 2021 due to Feb. cold that killed the fruit buds, we'll be closed for the next 3 weeks, until Sept. 1.  We'll start selling some harvested early apples and Asian pears in early Sept.

   Our Fall Open Hours run from Sept. 1 until Nov. 30, as shown in the sidebar at left.  Note that we've changed the Fall Open Hours a bit this year. We'll be open Mon. to Sat. 9 a.m.to 12 noon and 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m., and Sundays 1:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. only.  We're closed Sun. mornings for church services (as we are year-round), and closed from 12 noon to 1:30 p.m. each day so I can take a lunch break.

Our jam shelf is now full again, as Bill had time over the past 2 weeks to make new batches of blackberry, red raspberry, purple raspberry & black raspberry jams. He strains the seeds out of all these jams while making them, so they're seedless.

   I hope to catch up on pruning and weed control over the next 3 weeks, before I start harvesting the early-ripening apple selections from my apple breeding program.  I harvest all my apple breeding selections, since these were grown from seed resulting from controlled pollination, and there's only one tree of each selection.  I also harvest all pears and Asian pears, since these trees grow straight up, and I harvest most fruit from a ladder.

   Once they start ripening, harvested apples, Asian pears, and European pears all will cost $1.39 per pound + sales tax.  We often have some 2nds of these fruits, with small cracks or other surface damage, which cost just $0.93 per pound + sales tax.

'Enterprise' apples at left won't start ripening for 6 to 7 weeks, and 'Gold Rush' apples at right won't start ripening for 10 to 11 weeks, until late Oct.

   Our pick-your-own apple season doesn't start until Sept. 25, and is heaviest the whole month of October.  I'll post pick-your-own apple prices in about 6 weeks, as we get close to that harvest season.

   Sales dates for all our crops are listed in the sidebar at left under Crop Sales Seasons. That also tells which crops are sold pick-your-own and which crops are sold harvested.