U-pick Apples

The greatly reduced apple crop combined with very hot August and Sept weather has accelerated the apple ripening. We have been planting varieties for u-pick and encouraging customers to come spend time on the farm for several years but now we are not able to offer u-pick this year.

In a normal year we would have several varieties hanging on the tree that we are not in a hurry to harvest. When we have just a few apples on the tree they go from ripe to overripe much quicker than in a full crop year. This year we will zip through the sparse picking just as soon as they are ready so that they don’t drop or become soft. In this scenario we are not able to tell customers that we will have their favorite variety on the weekend that they plan to visit.
So we will have apples in the fruitstands earlier than ever.
We started picking Macs yesterday, and today we will try to pick a few Honeycrisp. Galas next week! (Sept 11 or so).
U-pickers thanks for your patience.. and a reminder that we have a huge crop of big beautiful raspberries that are available for u-pick.