What’s at the farm?

Pick-your-own July 1st to November 1st

Nursery plants for your garden or mini-farm, Retail and Wholesale.

Variety trials. In 2022 we have 500 apple varieties. New plantings every year. Tastings in October-in 2022 Oct. 15th and 16th all day; again November 12th and 26th – 2nd and 4th Saturdays each month through the winter.

Volunteer Mondays! Come out and help on the farm, chores are a-plenty. Or Tuesdy, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday or Sunday.

Picnic spots in the grass or among the nursery plants

Our new 2000 sq. ft. poly-house where we experiment with all kinds of things

Animals include Chickens and Reggie the pig.

As for Pick-Your-Own we have primarily fruit: Season begins with Black Currants gooseberries and Jostaberries Late June. 2022-Blueberries and Cherries begin ~8th of July and main crop Blueberries late July followed by the early apples like Gravenstein, William’s Pride and Lodi. Blackberries, and their hybrids-Boysenberry, Tayberry and Elderberry start mid August-out for two years. Plums, early pears, and Aronia in late August. The September month brings on the mid-season apples like Honeycrisp, Zestar, Sansa, Elstar, Alkmene, Ellisons Orange, Mother, Kidd’s, Karmijn de Sonneville. Late September into October begin the keepers like Liberty, Fiesta, Macoun, Spartan, Early Fugi, Jonagold, Melrose. Some of our latest varieties are Fortune, Belle de Boskoop, Golden Russet, Ashmead’s Kernal, Suncrisp, and Roxbury Russet. Late October- Medlar, Kiwi, Aronia, and Autumn Olive.

Every year we make an effort to grow some vegetables like pumpkins and squash, cucumbers, chard, lettuce and kale, carrots or beets. 2022 this will be in the large greenhouse.

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