Top-Quality Cracked Pecans & 'Gold Rush' Apples

   We've been very busy over the past 2 months pruning all our fruit trees, all over our farm. We got 3.6 inches of rain last night, and more rain is predicted for much of this next week, so I'll mainly be cleaning and packing apples in our sales building, plus pruning thornless blackberries when it's not raining. 

   We still have over 4000 pounds of harvested apples, mainly 'Enterprise' and 'Gold Rush', mostly stored in our larger cooler in our pecan building.  Whenever it's too cold to work outside or raining, I sort and clean apples out of these bins and pack them into 20-pound trays for sale.  We'll have harvested 'Enterprise' apples for sale until about late June 2026, and 'Gold Rush' apples for sale until about late July 2026.

 'Gold Rush' apples have gotten very sweet after 6 months of cold storage.  I eat one every day with my lunch.

   'Gold Rush' apples keep in top condition for fresh eating for 10 months in a fridge when stored in the plastic bags I pack them in.  This apple variety is very sweet now, after 6 months of cold storage, as starches converted into sugars.

    Harvested apples sell for $1.48 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  I sort and pack apples into bags in boxes that I weigh to 20 pounds, so if you get a 20-pound box of #1 apples you save $1.00.  We also have some nice #2 fruit, with some surface scarring but no internal damage, that sells for just $1.18 per pound + sales tax.

   We're still open by appointment until June 14.  That means to phone 620-597-2450 a day or two ahead, and leave a message on our answering machine with your name, day and time you'll come, and what you want to buy.  You can make an appointment to arrive here between 10 a.m. and 11:45 a.m., or between 1:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., Monday to Saturday.

   We still have some harvested, cracked pecans for sale, selections from my husband Bill's pecan breeding program.  All these pecans have large nuts, thin shells and great taste, and I give taste samples.  We sell cracked pecans in 4-pound bags, which are over 75% pecan kernels and under 25% shell fragments.  Each bag has the equivalent of 6 pounds of in-shell pecans, and when you pick out the kernels, you get 3 pounds or more of nutmeats.  Each bag costs $19.70 + sales tax.  

We still have some bags of Bill's cracked pecans for sale until late June or so.

   We still have 5 bags of asparagus for sale for the next few days, until they sell out.  I finished harvesting asparagus for the season today.  Phone 620-597-2450 a day or two ahead to order it, and say what day and time you'll come get it.  Asparagus is just $2.96 per pound + tax, harvested.

   This summer will be our 26th and final year of offering pick-your-own thornless blackberries for sale.  The berries will start ripening about June 10, when we're still open by appointment, so if you want to pick early blackberries, from June 10 to 14, call 620-597-2450 a day or two ahead and make an appointment.

   Our Summer Open Hours start June 15 and run until Aug. 15 this year, as shown in the sidebar at left.  In summer, we're open Mon. to Sat. 7:30 a.m.to 12 noon and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and Sundays 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. only.  We're closed Sun. mornings for church services (as we are year-round), and closed from 12 noon to 7 p.m. each day in summer due to high heat. 

   Thornless blackberries are sold pick-your-own only, for $4.93 per quart + sales tax.  We provide quart containers, and have customers fill them level-full.  You'll bring the berries home in the quarts, set on cardboard trays, and we appreciate it if you bring us back the empty quarts and cardboard trays on your next visit to Reid Orchards.

   As always, we take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards, and no "apps".  We don't use a smart phone, and have no phone line to the sales building.  So please bring your checkbook or enough cash to cover the amount of fruit and/or pecans you want to buy.  Thanks.