Category: Pick-your-own

Triple Crown Blackberries

Garden Design Class

Can you imagine a walled garden?The story ‘The Secret Garden’ shed light on the peace, sanctuary and romance within the confines of such a glorious planting – where one can communicate with the wildlings. As a child this story stirred a wonder within me.… Continue Reading “Garden Design Class”

Winter light, planning.

I live this time in reflection. Misty dampish, 40’s air. Reading, writing, consumed with defining purpose. Plant Gil, plant! – I recall my good friend saying repeatedly. I deliberate within design parameters. I deliberate for the rare 5 days needed to shovel a hole… Continue Reading “Winter light, planning.”

Reviews

Share a review. Read the reviews. The ever-changing farm. Here’s the negative: no small-wheeled strollers, a worm occasionally, old trucks, tractors, implements, farm materials, empty (or full) whiskey bottle, bare back young men in the nursery, barbed wire in the farmyard, small-backyard-like, temperamental farmers.… Continue Reading “Reviews”

Gravenstein, Early Wynoochee, Aurora,

Summer apples video

Summer Apples

“Summer Apples” come and go in a flash, ripening by the hour! For the Summer apples there is that perfect moment with maximum aroma, juice, crispness, making the first apples of the season an experience not to miss. Every apple will be a little… Continue Reading “Summer Apples”

Franklin Plum is as early as Ersinger, slightly smaller, slightly less sweet.

Creating Fruit Trees by Grafting

We are in the finest season to create trees-asexually- by “grafting”. By cutting living tissue from one like plant and connecting this piece of plant to another-even as small as a few cells-one is changing the genetic type from one to another. I have… Continue Reading “Creating Fruit Trees by Grafting”

August 6th Availability; making apple trees

Blueberries-Legacy variety, mulberries, Blackberries & Apples: the sauce/pie Lodi, crispy Pristine, multipurpose & high flavor Gravenstein and William’s Pride, juicy Summerred, front end of complex/spicy Zestar! Apples 101: Wednesday Aug 9th, 16th, 23rd – 5:30pm — 8:30pm see classesClasses-Tours A window in time is… Continue Reading “August 6th Availability; making apple trees”