Our Summer Open Hours start June 15

    Only a few thornless blackberries have started ripening so far, as many canes were killed back by the late March freeze, but more blackberries will continue ripening until about Aug. 1.  The most berries will be ripe from about June 22 to July 25.  Very few berries will be ripe this weekend, June 12 to 14, and rain is likely most of Sat. June 13.

Only a few thornless blackberries are ripe now, but many more are growing. The most berries will ripen from about June 22 to July 25. 

   These are large berries, on plants with NO thorns or chiggers, and very easy and fast to pick once more start ripening.  This summer will be our 26th and final year of offering pick-your-own thornless blackberries for sale, so if you want to pick them here, come this year.

   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 for blackberry picking from 12 noon to 7 p.m. each day in summer due to high heat.  You don't need an appointment to pick blackberries, but if you're driving a distance you might want to call a day or two ahead to ask how many berries are ripe.

Our Summer Open Hours for blackberry picking start June 15 and run until Aug. 15 this year. Those who only want pecans and/or apples may come in afternoons if you call a day ahead. 

   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.

   We still have many harvested #1 and #2 'Gold Rush' apples for sale, and many #2 'Enterprise' apples.  In early afternoons when it's too hot to work outside, I sort and clean apples out of the bins we picked them in last fall, and pack them into 20-pound trays.  We'll have harvested apples for sale until about late July 2026.

I sort and pack more 'Gold Rush' apples most afternoons, and they sell as fast as I sort them. 'Gold Rush' apples are very crisp & very sweet, and keep 10 months in the fridge. 

   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.

   Until about June 30, we still have some harvested, cracked pecans for sale.  Once we sell out, we won't have more pecans until the new crop starts in mid-Nov., so get some soon if you'll want them before Nov. 15.  These pecan selections, from my husband Bill's pecan breeding program, 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. 

   If you just want to buy apples and/or pecans, and not pick blackberries, you may come in afternoons when I'm in our sales building sorting apples.  Just please 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 may 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.

   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 fruit and/or pecans you want to buy.  Thanks.