by Annika Sampson | Sep 19, 2024
A bosc pear and an Elstar apple. This week we’ll be scavenging what rest of the grapes we can before the rains come in earnest this coming weekend/next week, and harvesting lots of apples and pears! Noting looking back at our records from previous years how this year...
by Annika Sampson | Sep 9, 2024
Sampling apples and pears to check for ripeness before creating our harvest lists. This week we’re starting with harvests on pears and grapes with large apple picks like Honeycrisp just around the corner. Harvest takes most of our time these days, but other...
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...
