Yes we have apples!! We have started picking the Ginger Golds and they are really good. The super hot weather (plus irrigation) has made them very sweet and juicy. Even though the apple crop is only about 30% of our potential, it is still a lot of apples. We have many new acres of HoneyCrisp, […]
We hand picked a few lugs of sweets today. Three weeks earlier than we would usually start picking. We have about 5 acres of sweets (out of 45) at the US 31 -Creswell Rd farm that have a small but economically viable crop. Jim has been watching them progress and we are getting started. We […]
The weather this year has been pretty far from the norm. I have delayed in commenting because it is so hard to predict how this will turn out. Monday night the temp dropped to 23f. There was a breeze and it stayed well below freezing for hours. As of today on Wednesday I would say […]
Several years back we were put in touch with a large turkey farm near Grand Rapids that sells the giant double semi trailer loads of manure. Around here we call it “Turkey Pooh”! The turkey pooh is a great deal for us. Since conventional granular fertilizers have been going up with fuel prices, turkey pooh […]
I had been lobbying Jim for a few months to buy a new Orchard tractor. Any more I don’t spend many hours in the tractor seat but I do still plant the sweet corn, pumpkins, and squash. Jim was slow to warm up to the idea but this fall the 1976 John Deere 2030 […]
We have raised the price of tart cherry juice concentrate for the first time in many years. We are going to $16.99/quart. This is a steep increase. We had a large cherry crop in 2009 and much of the surplus was made into concentrate. The 2010 crop was very small but we still had enough […]
We really have a nice crop of pears this year. The Bartletts are in right now and they are large size and real nice. We will start the Bosc pears this week they are also big and beautiful. The Stanley Prune Plums just are taking their time getting ready. We like to let them hang […]
The M88 apple block has been laid out with u-pick in mind, and we have promoted our u-pick for several years. However, as the apples on the M-88 farm began to develop this year I realized that they were all russeted. Russet is a brown rough finish on an apple skin that is usually the […]
Betsy and I just completed a lap of the orchard and I felt I better report. Red Havens are taking their time getting ripe. We will start on Monday or Tuesday. We are hearing from a lot of people who want to u-pick this weekend and they can get some nice peaches but let me […]
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