Reid Orchards: 4 More Days for Pick-Your-Own Apples

Our pick-your-own apple season goes for 4 more days, until this Sunday afternoon, Nov. 2. Mornings will be cold, but afternoons will be nice. Come during our Fall Open Hours (shown in the left sidebar), and allow enough time to finish picking and check out before we close at 12 noon or 5:30 p.m.

We still have 'Enterprise', and now have some 'Gold Rush', for pick-your-own apples. Pick-your-own means you harvest apples from the trees while you stand on the ground, and you buy everything you pick. I show you which apple trees you may pick from, and how to pick the apples properly.

Pick-your-own apple customers sort the apples as they harvest them, placing #1 apples with no damage into white plastic bags and #2 apples with small sunburned areas, cracks or other surface damage into yellow or tan plastic bags. #1 'Enterprise' apples keep in top condition for fresh eating for 6 to 7 months in a fridge when stored in these plastic bags, and #1 'Gold Rush' apples keep 10 months in a fridge. #2 'Enterprise' apples or 'Gold Rush' apples keep well for 2 to 3 months in a fridge.

We appreciate it if pick-your-own apple customers bring some clean, non-ripped, used plastic bags in different colors, but we have some bags for those who don't bring any. Do NOT bring cloth tote bags, as I weigh the apples in the plastic bags, and the apples need to be stored in the plastic bags to keep well in the fridge. We're reusing plastic bags that otherwise would be thrown out, and reusing is much better for the environment than recycling.

Pick-your-own #1 apples sell for $1.23 per pound + $0.02 sales tax, and #2 apples sell for $0.99 per pound + $0.01 sales tax. We take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards, and no "apps", so please bring your checkbook or enough cash to cover the amount of fruit you want to buy.

We also have harvested apples for sale, now until next June or July. Seasons for all our crops are at left under Crop Sales Seasons. That also tells which crops we sell harvested, and which crops we sell pick-your-own.

We still have some 'Blake's Pride' pears for sale, and many have bought some lately as word spreads on how good they are.

We still have some European

We still have some 'Shinko' Asian pears for sale also. 'Shinko' Asian pears are deliciously sweet, very crunchy and very juicy, and keep 6 months in the fridge. They're great for fresh eating, salads and stir-fry dishes.

I harvest all selections from my apple breeding program, and have small amounts of some of these for sale now. I give taste samples of all fruits and pecans available when customers come, for those interested in buying them.

'Sunday Best', a selection from my apple breeding program, resulted from a cross of 'Sundance' with 'Jonafree'.

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

We've now sold out of the pecans we harvested in late Nov. and early Dec. 2024. Cold, rainy weather has delayed the 2025 pecan harvest, so it won't start until early-mid Nov. We'll start selling our new pecan crop about Nov. 18, and we'll have cracked pecans for sale until about mid-Sept. 2026, as shown at left.

If I'm not in the sales building when you arrive, ring the bell VERY loudly so I can hear it from the back of the orchards. (If I am in the sales building, please do NOT ring the bell. Thanks.)

As always, we take cash or checks for payment, but NO credit cards or debit cards, and no phone "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 produce you want to buy. Thanks.