Open Fall Hours Now to Dec. 15

    Our Fall Open Hours started today and go until Dec. 15, as shown in the left sidebar.  We are open these hours on Labor Day.  Note that our opening time is now 10 a.m., to give me more time to harvest apples, pears and Asian pears before customers start arriving.

Now until Dec. 15, we're open these Fall Hours. We're closed from 12 noon to 1:30 pm each day so I can take a lunch break.

   If I'm not in our sales building when you arrive, ring the bell on our sales building porch very loudly, so I can hear it when I'm harvesting near the back of our orchards.

Asian pears are shaped like apples and eaten fresh like apples, plus used in salads and stir-fry dishes. They're very crunchy, very sweet and very juicy.

   We have many 'Shinko' Asian pears and some European pears for sale now.  Some harvested early apples from my breeding program are for sale now, but pick-your-own and harvested 'Enterprise' apples won't start until mid-late Sept. 

I harvested this 20-pound box of #1 'Jonasun' apples this afternoon. This selection from my apple breeding program is my favorite early-season apple.

   Harvested apples, pears and Asian pears sell for $1.45 per pound + sales tax for #1 fruit with no damage.  A 20-pound box of #1 fruit costs $28.02 + sales tax, and you save $1.00.  We have some nice #2 fruit with small sunburned areas, cracks or other surface damage, that sell for $1.16 per pound + sales tax. 

  We still have about 70 bags of harvested, cracked pecans for sale, before we sell out in late Sept.  Pecans store well for 3-4 months in a fridge, and for over 6 years in a freezer.  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 $19.32 + sales tax.

   Revised projected sales dates for all our crops are shown in the updated sidebar at left under Crop Sales Seasons.  That also tells which crops we sell harvested, and which crops we sell pick-your-own.

   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 you want to buy.  Thanks.