Irrigating the young trees.
Tag Archives: fruit tree
06/25/2020
Ask our staff for our new red-fleshed tart cherries. No cherries will be available for pick-your-own this year, but we have tart and sweet cherries for sale at our farmstand.
06/11/2020
Here’s a preview of some of our coming attractions.Peaches: We anticipate an abundant harvest of peaches this summer, including white peaches, yellow peaches, donut-shaped peaches, clingstone peaches, and freestone peaches. Bakery: When peach season gets underway, look for our peach pies, orchard harvest tarts, peach-blueberry tarts, and peach-raspberry jam, all made fresh in our own …
03/16/2020
The orchards are a sea of scarlet red branches during pruning season.
03/13/2020
Some epic cloud action
2/29/2020
Walking down a long row of trees with the chainsaw. We prune the fruit trees this time of year to allow more air to enter the canopy. That increased airflow through the branches reduces the potential for fungal disorders and makes for fewer applications of chemical sprays through the growing season.
2/25/2020
Freshly-chainsawed fruitwood logs on the orchard floor.
2/19/2020
There’s no shortage of fruitwood around here during pruning season.
2/13/2020
Tossing firewood into the pile.
2/11/2020
By pruning the trees in the winter, we enable more sunlight to enter the tree during the growing season, and the greater sunlight helps produce tastier, sweeter fruit.