Still Many Pears, Some Apples

   Monday and Tuesday afternoons, I harvested all apples still on the trees from my breeding selections, before the 20 F freeze we had this morning.  I'm so grateful that we had a reduced apple crop this year, so all apples could be harvested before this early freeze.

   We have some #1 and some #2 newly-harvested apples from my apple breeding program for sale.  I give taste samples of all fruit varieties available when you come.

   For those who want to make pie filling, applesauce or apple butter, we also have #1 and #2 apples from our bumper 2022 'Enterprise' apple crop.  These 2022 'Enterprise' apples have a rich flavor and are ideal for cooking, but not crisp enough for fresh eating.  I made applesauce twice last week from our 2022 'Enterprise' apples, and it was wonderful.

These 2022 'Enterprise' apples have a rich flavor great for cooking. The blue box (left) has #2 apples & the green box (right) has #1 apples.

   We still have about 750 pounds of  'Harrow Sweet' pears in our cooler, packed in 20-pound boxes and ready to sell, plus about 22 pounds of #2 pears.  These pears are very sweet with a smooth, buttery texture, and are wonderful for baking and fresh eating.  They also make great pie filling, pear sauce or pear butter.  I like pear butter better than apple butter.

'Harrow Sweet' pears are very sweet, great for fresh eating and make wonderful pie filling, pear sauce or pear butter.

   All #1 'Shinko' Asian pears have sold out now.  We still have about 28 pounds of #2 Asian pears for sale.

   We sell harvested #1 pears and apples for $1.42 per pound + sales tax, and harvested #2 (2nds) pears and apples for $1.09 per pound + sales tax.  If you get a 20-pound box with 2 bags of #1 pears (or a bag of pears and a bag of apples), the price goes down to $1.37 per pound.  So a 20-pound box of #1 pears and/or apples costs $27.49 + sales tax, and you save a dollar.

   We've reduced the price on #1 2022 apples, with no damage, to $1.28 per pound + sales tax, since they are for cooking only, even though we had the extra expense of running 2 coolers for the past year to keep these apples in good condition.  So a 20-pound box of #1 2022 apples costs $25.59 + sales tax, and you save 3 dollars.

   We'll have harvested, cracked pecans for sale starting Nov. 14.  Pecan sales start in mid-Nov. every year.  Thanks to the rain we got 3-4 weeks ago, we'll have a very good pecan crop this year, so we should have pecans for sale until at least mid-March 2024.

   We sell cracked pecans in 4-pound bags, which are over 75% pecan kernels and under 25% shell fragments.  Each bag has the equivalent of 6 pounds of in-shell pecans, and when you pick out the pecan kernels, you get 3 pounds or more of nutmeats.  Each bag costs $18.96 + sales tax. 

   We appreciate it if you phone 620-597-2450 a day ahead and leave a message on our answering machine saying the day and about what time you'll come, and what you want to buy.  Our Fall Open Hours are shown in the left sidebar.

   As always, we take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards.  So please bring your checkbook or enough cash to cover the amount of fruit you want to buy.  Thanks.