***The following is an excerpt from our email newsletter, sent out on 10/28. Please subscribe to get all of our news and updates delivered right to your inbox. *** Hi everyone, It’s crazy to think about how fast this season went by! It seems like we were just picking strawberries a few days ago. Instead, […]
***The following is an excerpt from our email newsletter, sent out on 09/29. Please subscribe to get all of our news and updates delivered right to your inbox. *** Hi everyone, We’re coming up on the final Fall Festival Weekend here at the Orchard. It’s been a big success spreading the festival over multiple weekends […]
***The following is an excerpt from our email newsletter, sent out on 09/29. Please subscribe to get all of our news and updates delivered right to your inbox. *** Hi everyone, It seems like the first Festival Weekend was a hit! Thank you to everyone who came out and made it a big success!! […]
***The following is an excerpt from our email newsletter on 09/23/2016. Please sign up for our newsletter here, to have news, information and event schedules delivered right to your inbox. *** Apples Pick-your-own apples will start tomorrow…err…today, Friday Sept 23rd. Pick-your-own apples will be available anytime during business hours until we get picked out […]
***The following is an excerpt from our e-newsletter on 09/15/2016. Please subscribe to get updates delivered right to your inbox.*** Hi everyone, It’s been a crazy last couple of weeks here at the Orchard!! We’re in the middle of apple and grape harvest, peaches are still being picked, we opened Bent Ladder, and we hosted […]
***The following is an excerpt from our e-newsletter on 08/30/2016. Please subscribe to get updates delivered right to your inbox.*** Hi everyone, The kids are back at school again, which means at the Orchard peaches are transitioning into apples. Oh, and fall must almost be here. So peach season is almost over. Yesterday I started […]
Sorry it’s been a few weeks since I’ve blogged. We’ve been really busy around the farm picking, thinning, and summer pruning (not to mention still working hard at getting Bent Ladder open. Opening date still TBD). I also just got back from a few days in western New York at the International Fruit Tree Association’s […]
Just a quick update this time. I’ve been spending most of my time this last week picking cherries, so I don’t have much exciting to really talk about. But I collected some pictures around the orchard, and I wanted to share them so you could see how everything is doing. Things are looking good!
Iris A lot of you folks have probably enjoyed seeing Peg’s iris collection blooming on the hill next to the market, either this year or in the past. Those iris made their way up from Tennessee when Dale and Peg moved back here, and they’ve been doing great. Iris rhizomes will grow to the point […]
Strawberries Wayne County got hit by frost Sunday night/Monday morning. Most everything at the Orchard came through fine, but the strawberries being right on the ground, got the coldest air. We got a little damage, but nothing catastrophic. So I figured I’d take the “opportunity” to show what a damaged strawberry blossom looks like. DON’T […]