Harvesting Many Asian Pears & Some Pears Now

   We now have a good amount of harvested 'Shinko' Asian pears and some 'Harrow Sweet' European pears for sale.  I harvest all pears and Asian pears, since these trees grow straight up, and I harvest most fruit from a ladder.  So we do NOT offer pick-your-own pears or Asian pears.

We'll have many harvested 'Shinko' Asian pears for sale for the next 2 weeks or so.

   A late April freeze greatly reduced the crops of early-ripening apple varieties this year, since these varieties also bloom early.  So amounts of early apples for sale are extremely limited this year.  

'Harrow Sweet' pears have just started ripening. We have some for sale now & will have more over the next month.

   Harvested pears and Asian pears, and harvested apples when we have them, all 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.

   We'll have very few harvested apples for sale until our main apple season, and pick-your-own apple season, starts about Sept. 25.  Apple harvest is heaviest the whole month of October.  Once the pick-your-own apple season starts, pick-your-own prices will be $1.00 per pound + sales tax for #1 apples, and $0.79 per pound + sales tax for #2 apples (2nds).

   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.

   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're 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.

   For the next couple weeks it's a good idea to phone 620-597-2450 a day ahead and leave a message on the answering machine with your name, day and time you'll come, and what you want to buy.  State your phone number, including area code, if you want a call back.  Our phone rings in our house, so I won't get your message until I come in from working in the orchards.

   If you just come during our open hours, I'll probably be out harvesting the fruit.  I put a sign up on our sales building by our bell, so ring the bell loudly and I'll hear it and come to the sales building.