by Annika Sampson | Sep 2, 2024
Fall is a wonderful time to plant fruit trees, and we’ve got our best selection in years at the nursery! Our highly anticipated “buy 2 get a 3rd free” fruit tree sale starts Thursday, Sept 12. Apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, and nut trees...
by Annika Sampson | Sep 2, 2024
Honeycrisp apples ripening up (probably ~1 week to first harvest) This week we’re all systems go on summer and fall fruit. With delays across the board in ripening fruit this year due to cooler temps, we’ve now reached a point where we have peaches overlapping with...
by Annika Sampson | Aug 29, 2024
Orcas Pear is a Bartlett-style pear that was discovered as a seedling on Orcas Island in the San Juans. It became commercially available in 1986 and is prized for its productivity, large fruit, and resistance to pear scab. The fruit is smooth skinned with a yellow to...
by Annika Sampson | Aug 26, 2024
Nearly ripe Akane apples This week we’re picking peaches, apples, pears and eagerly monitoring Lynden Blue grapes for ripeness. We’ll also be prepping our apple line for the first big apple washing of the season, cleaning up apple drops to reduce pest pressure...
by Annika Sampson | Aug 20, 2024
The most beautiful peach plum you ever did see. This week feels like we’re entering our more full-on harvest season – peach, plum, apple and pear varieties are ready for picking, and we’re ~2 weeks out on our first grape varieties. This cooling down of temperatures...
