About Skipley Farm

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google map link: 7228 Skipley Rd. Snohomish 98290

 

Contact Gil at 206-679-6576; Gil @ skipleyfarm.com

7 1/2 acres of fruit. You-pick, organic (non-certified) tree, bush & vine fruit farm. A place for education -see Classes; Edible plant Nursery-especially apple trees, grape vines, blueberries and brambles;  Landscape Designs – Borealis Landscape & Design>now ‘Plantsman’ –  I Design/consult, install and maintain landscapes. Permaculture is a process of collaboration, resourcefulness and regeneration

Skipley Farm is in Snohomish WA, 30 minutes North of Seattle just east of Everett off Hiway 2. During the PYO season check availability and updates at Facebook or a call to Gil at 206-679-6576 . Our address is 7228 Skipley Rd. Snohomish 98290. Parking is in front – pull in, turn right off driveway, walk up the grape rows to checkin for orientation. Please respect the resident’s in the farmhouse. Overflow and ADA parking is up the right driveway.

Beautiful apples this year with good volume so no worries; Apple eating challenge!>>latest research on apple consumption is 2 apples per day over 2 weeks (10# to 12# per person), skin included, repairs gut biome; apples easily store 2 months+; ~49 apple varieties to taste; apple price is $4 with generous price breaks at 10#, 20#, 40# and 100#, $3.50, $3.00, $2.50, $2.00 respectively -pricing per transaction.

As of 2025, we have 700 apple varieties; 2000 dwarf trees – a nursery of the best that grow here, a dozen different Seedless Grapes(300 plants), a field of Blueberries(1 acre), 30 Cherry, 30 Pear,  plums, plantings of Kiwi, Blackberry, Black & Red Currant, Gooseberries, Jostaberries, Elderberries, Aronia, persimmon medlar and a full nursery of all these plants.

Ripening Schedule

varies by season

start averages, apples below:

The “run” is usually 2 to 3 weeks for each fruit and occ. 6 weeks with varieties

June 20-30 6/20-Black Currants; 6/25-Blueberry; 6/25-Jubileam Cherry; 6/28-Gooseberry, ‘Rich May’ Peach

July 1-15 7/1-Cherry(no Rainier); 7/5-Jostaberry, Blueberries; 7/15-Red Currant; 7/15-Blackberries.

July 15-31 Blueberries Blackberries, summer apples-see below

August 1-15: Petit Blanquet and Ubileen Pear, tomatoes, Greenhouse grapes, Ersinger and Shiro Plum,

August 15-31: Interlaken golden seedless grape, Italian prune-plum, green marble plum, Bartlett and Orcas pear

APPLE SCHEDULE:

July 20-Aug 20 Lodi early for sauce/baking

Aug 15-31 William’s Pride (row 1)- delicious! Keeps 4 weeks, Zestar!-sweet (row2), Gravenstein sauce/pie (row2) Summerred sweet, juicy (row 15)

Sept 1-15 , Akane tart, crisp-white (row 7), Sansa -sweet (row 15), Ellison’sOrange-pick early, cheesey (row 19), Alkmene, eat!-20

Sept. 10 to e. Oct – Honeycrisp rows 5&6) Bramley(UK#1baker)-row 2, Mother(mild) row 2, Elstar(high flavor, baker)-row3, Karmijn(omgflavor)-12 Gala(sweet)-row10 Priscilla(crisp,juicy) -11

Sept. 25 to Oct 5 – Fuji(sweet)-row 4, Pixie Crunch, Crimson Crisp-rows14, Macoun-row 12 Spartan-13, Liberty-1, McIntosh-11,  Empire-13, King-9, Tsugaru-16, Hatsuaki-17

Oct. 5 to Oct. 20- Melrose-9, Suncrisp-6, Belle de Boskoop-11, Spitzenburg, Fortune-15, Winter Banana &Winesap-row 11

Oct 20> Jonagold, Rubinette, Melrose, Decoster, Ashmead’s Kernel, Cameo, Enterprise

Contact us through email: Gil@skipleyfarmcom, of course add the dot

Or phone 2066796576 gil

Why Apples

Why eat 150# of apples (1 large apple per day)

The Skipley Farm Fruit Tree Nursery is a small but diverse enterprise situated on 8 acres of land in the lovely county of Snohomish. The land was 98 years in cattle and horses, with deep clays, and clayloam topsoil which is rich in natural organic matter. This is a huge advantage as it means the soil is always moist allowing roots to enjoy optimum growing conditions all year round. As a result, our trees are strong and healthy with well-developed root systems.

The fact that our fruit trees are grafted on site and ‘grown on’ in the open field or pots for 1 or more years allows you to create the tree in your shape, style and dwarfness.

Apples are our speciality, and we offer more than 500 varieties-by far the largest selection of grown-out trees for sale in the US. We are particularly interested in collecting and conserving those wonderful old, rare and unusual varieties from all over the world that will surely disappear and be lost forever without our help. There are 7000-15000 varieties because every apple seed has different genetics. Its just about applying a name! We grow apples from seed too.

As part of our conservation work we hold back one or more trees of every variety we propagate for our own use. Each tree is then planted in our orchard where it is safe from extinction and also provides cuttings for future grafting. Growing each variety in our orchard provides potential to carry out important research regarding how each tree performs in our climate and potentially elsewhere. Growing on different rootstock is another test for performance.

Here at the nursery we specialise in growing varieties with good disease resistance. These varieties are more suitable for organic growing systems as they are less likely to require maintenance spraying although it should be pointed out that even the most resilient varieties are not immune from diseases. In 2024 nearly all grapes failed with powdery mildew. In 2025 nearly all grapes succumbed to SWD fly..

Other fruits we sell include Pears(30+ varieties), Plums(20 different kinds), Gages, Damsons, Quinces(6 diff kinds), Medlars(3 diff kinds), Grapes(25 diff kinds), brambles of all sorts, Kiwi, Fig, Elderberry. We also supply a large selection of soft fruit bushes including Black Currant(6 diff kinds), White and Red Currants, Gooseberries, Jostaberries, Blueberries(15 diff kinds), Strawberries and Aronia.