Last Market – 10-23-2021

Newtown Pippin Apple

Greetings – I’m pretty sure this will be our last market, for this season. The apples and pears had a light bloom last Spring, and a lighter than usual crop as a result. It’s been a challenging year all along and I’m not too sorry to be at this end of it. Next year…

Hardy Kiwi Fruit

• -This week we’ll have Bosc Pears and A-Ri-Rang Asian pears. – Belle de Boskopp, Spitzenburg, Prairie Spy, King David, Spartan and Newtown Pippin apples. -Italian plums and hardy Kiwis. It’s a good time to stock up, most of the apples are excellent keepers.

We had some rain last night, with more forecast. It’s so nice nice to be getting some moisture over here on the east side of the mountains. Thank you all for supporting us all these years and I hope to see you on Saturday.

Update – October 13, 2021

Spitzenburg Apple

Greetings – Things are going well here, we’re still adjusting to the charred landscape all around, but I guess we are getting use to it. We’ve restocked the electric bear fencing that was burned and have been using it to good effect. Our perimeter fence is back up, and we think the last deer has been chased out, good news as they’ve been hard on plants in the weeks since the fire. Some big news for us is that we found an insulated, refrigerated shipping container to use as a cold storage! It’s a very nice unit, clean and well set up. It’s a big check off on the list of things to do. After it was delivered and a little bit of wiring it was go. Much more convenient then driving 30 miles to the storage we were using. With that said; a BIG THANK YOU to Scott and Ky at Jerzy Boyz Farm for their generosity in giving us the space in their cooler for the nearly two months our fruit was there.

Our New Cooler

Cool

I took last weekend off from doing the market, but will be back for a few more to finish the season off. We’ll have apples, pears & Asian pears, Italian plums and Kiwi’s. See you then.

Thanks!

Looking up valley, it was still on fire a couple weeks ago (up high), it snowed a bit up there last night.. Our place is about half way up the pic, on the right