We hope you will be able to make it to the farm to enjoy all of our fall activities, especially the the Three Rivers Area Fall Color Tour which is Sunday, October 14th. We are one of many stops in the area. Click here for more information. https://www.facebook.com/events/731427820303749/

Our special activities for fall color tour here at the farm include:

• Local artists and specialty vendors: 11 to 5
• Local musicians/bands playing
• Camzies Pizza Food Truck: 11 to 5
• Live Birds of Prey exhibit: 1 to 3 (weather permitting)
• Brandy and Wine Tasting: 1 to 3
• Hard Cider Happy Hour: 1 to 3
• and of course….our market and bakery will be open our normal hours of 8 to 6.

Grapes:

Our purple Concord grapes are for the most part gone for the year. If you really want to try picking some, you are welcome to go see what you can find, particularly in the middle of the rows where some might have been neglected.  However, we would discourage you from coming if you are trying to pick a lot or traveling far to get them. This is the first year EVER we have run out of Concord grape picking before the frost, and we had a very good crop this year! We thank the many customers who came for weeks and picked them!

We have plenty of white grapes left to pick  and will have them up until the first hard frost. Here’s why we think they are so good:

• They are sweeter than the Concord
• They are easier to pick (larger clusters, less foliage and double wire trellis make them that way)
• They don’t stain like the purple Concords do

 

Fall Ornamentals and Winter Squash: We have pumpkins of all shapes and colors now, gourds, and mums for your fall decorating. We also have lots of squash. Remember, you can use your squash as a decoration first, then eat later!

Sweet Cider: We are pressing sweet cider now. Each week is a different mix and tastes a bit different….we work hard to blend the apples to make a nice sweet apple taste.

2018 Apple Update: We have a smaller crop of apples this year due to spring weather issues. Also, as you are in the u-pick apple orchard you will notice some of the other effects of the spring frost which left some scars on the apples.

Apples: Everything we have on the market now is listed below.

• Apple Special: In order to make room for later varieties coming in, we have three varieties (Northern Spies, Gala, and Cortland) on special. Buy two half bushels (or one bushel) for $24, and get an additional half bushel for free. So this is a $12 savings. You can mix and match.
  • Gala is a great eating and cooking apple. It has a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness.
  • Northern Spy: The professional baker’s dream, cooks up well in applesauce, pie and other dishes. Stores well, easy to remember by saying “Spies for pies.” We are currently using it in our pies in the bakery.
  • Cortland: A hint of tartness makes this a great baking variety, a descendent of the McIntosh, this variety is a bit sweeter than its ancestor. Juices really well.
• Honeycrisp: This seems to be many people’s favorite. It is crisp with an excellent sweet flavor and a “bite” to it. Great for eating fresh or using in salads. Sold by the pound only ($2).
• Jonathan: Pretty and popular, used for fresh eating and cooking, a favorite for apple butter and taffy apples.
• Red Delicious: America’s most popular apple “back in the day.” Best for fresh eating and snacks. Full-flavored sweet taste.
• Golden Delicious: A gingery-smooth, sweet taste under a thin skin. It’s the most popular yellow apple, good eaten fresh, baked or cut in salads.
• Cameo: Firm, crisp and sweet, tart. Great for snaking or baking. Keeps well in your refrigerator.
• Fuji: Has a fantastic sweet flavor and tart flavor, with a low acid content.  An incredibly good keeper, it says crisp for weeks without even being in the refrigerator.

• U-Pick Apples are open now for most varieties. Picking is available during our business hours of 8 until 6. We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30 to be able to pick. Please check in at the market first for directions. You will be driving to the orchard, so send someone to the market to get directions before getting everyone (especially excited children) out of the car!  We only have Red Romes available to pick now.   The price is the same for picked apples or u-pick apples. $24 a bushel, $13 a half-bushel, $7.50 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $5 a half-peck, $3 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound.

Apple Gleaning Update on Tuesday, October 16th:  We will open several of the orchards for gleaning on Tuesday October 16th.  You may pick apples off the ground or off the trees for $5 a bushel for what is remaining. This is a great and economical way to get animal apples, apple sauce apples, cider making, etc.  There are apples left for gleaning, but…you need to be a bit diligent and able to get some of them from the tops of the trees. Please bring your own ladders as well as containers to put them in. We will loan you baskets to measure them.  Please check in at the market first so we can show you which orchards are open.  If you don’t have containers, we have drawstring half bushel bags you can purchase for 35 cents each.  The apples will be here until a hard frost hurts them or they are all picked.

What else is on the market:

• Onions, including Red Torpedo Tropea, Red Marble Cippolini, and Borrettana Cippolini are in. These are incredible for cooking or roasting.  Our large sweet onions are now cleaned and bagged (10 pounds) for you to take and have been “cured” to keep. This is a great year for onions.
• Bosc Pears. This is a beautiful, large, firm, sweet eating pear, that keeps very well. (Not a canning pear.)

Organics! Shiitake mushrooms, Bunching onions, leeks, sweet peppers, hot peppers, kale, swiss chard, baby ginger (half off this week!), and sweet potatoes!

 

Bakery:

Bakery offerings for the weekend will be:

• Cookies: Apple Caramel, M&M “Monster” Cookies, Ginger Molasses, S’mores, Cherry White Chocolate Chip, Coconut Pecan, and Lemon
• Pies:  Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Pecan, and Pumpkin.
• Breads: Vegetable, Whole Wheat, Whole Grain, Cinnamon, Vegetable, LaBrea Breads, Focaccia, Hamburger and Hotdog Buns, and Sunflower Seed Bread!
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts
• Pumpkin Cake Rolls
• Assorted Muffins and Blueberry Coffee Cake
• Cake Donuts: Buttermilk, apple cider and pumpkin. After this week, we will only have cake donuts available on Friday, Saturday and Sunday until we close for the year.
• Caramel Apples — made with JonaGold apples
• Gluten Free Sensations items in bakery freezer including pies, cookies, brownies, and cinnamon rolls!!
• Slushies (now in 2 sizes based on customer’s requests for larger size!)
• In the bakery freezer, Plainwell Vanilla Ice Cream, for pie a la mode!

Hard Ciders, Wine and Brandies: Hometown Hero is back! We won a silver award for this blackberry, elderberry, rose hip cider, and we hope you like it too. Find Hard Cider Happy Hour in the onion barn. This is the building on top of the hill overlooking the playground and herb garden. Come find us 4-6pm Friday, 3-6pm Saturday and sample cider or get a growler filled. If you bring growlers from home and we’ll put our sticker over them, or buy one from us!  We have Preach (Pear/Peach), Brunch (Maple/Vanilla), Strawberry, Hopped, Afternoon (Strawberry/Chamomile), Sour Cherry/Sage, Standard Dry, Standard Sweet, United Squash Federation, Cortabella (pure cortland apple cider) and Standard Semi-Sweet in bottles. Several of our ciders are about sold out until next year so make sure you ask if there’s anything you want to stock up on.

If you’re looking for our cider outside of our farm, you can visit Rooster’s Wing Shack in Three Rivers, The Riviera Theatre in Three Rivers, Dussel’s in Cassopolis, Craft Beer Cellar in Grand Rapids, and as always, The Local in Centreville, Michigan. We also have cider at Hoffman Street Grocery in Three Rivers! We are so grateful to our local partners who sell our ciders.

Brandy Tasting andTours are this Saturday from 1-3. We also have our full line of Hubbard’s Brandy as well as Double Cherry Wine available behind the shelf at the market.

Closing Date Information:  It’s hard to believe that closing is upon us when the farm is in such a high fall gear, but we are a seasonal business and those temperatures will be dropping before we know it. Our last day for the year will be Sunday, November 4th.  We will be open that final day until our normal closing time of 6pm. In the past few years we have opened on some additional weekends in November, but this year we won’t be able to do that.  So….you have about 3 weeks to stock up on your winter needs of apples, winter squash, onions, take and bake pies, hard ciders, wine and brandies! After that we may be available by appointment for hard ciders, brandies, and wines, but won’t have much produce to sell. Below we have put some information about the best way to store apples.

We thank you for buying local and hope to see you soon!

***Storing Apples:

Apples are best kept in your refrigerator, preferably the crisper drawer or in an unsealed plastic bag. Refrigerate apples separately from vegetables because apples naturally release small amounts of ethylene gas that can be damaging to lettuce and other produce. If you have a root cellar, you can keep larger amounts there if it is cool, dry and dark.

For every 10 degrees above 30°F, the apples’ lifespan decreases dramatically. You do not want the apples’ temperature to fall below 30°F, however, because that will make them freeze and turn to mush when they’re thawed. Their cell walls will all collapse. Therefore, apples are best stored somewhere around 30-35°F, in a humid environment.

If storing apples in the fridge, place them inside a crisper drawer and lay a slightly dampened paper towel on top of the apples. Apples are one of the few fruits that really do benefit from being stored in the fridge as quickly as possible. Keep them in the crisper drawer with aforementioned damp paper towel, or else keep them in perforated plastic bags in a cold shed or cellar.

There is trust to that old adage: “One bad apple rots the whole bunch.” Apples give off a lot of ethylene gas, and so just one bruised and rotting apple will give off enough to swiftly ripen (and rot) the others. If you have any bruises or soft spots on an apple, set it aside for eating. Don’t store with the other apples.

Ultimately, if you’re planning on storing a lot of apples for the winter, look for firm, long-lasting apples. These are usually thick-skinned, tart apples.  We recommend storing Rome or Fuji, properly stored they will last until spring. FALL

While there is rain forecast on and off for the weekend, we still have lots going on here at the farm. For those coming to pick apples or grapes this weekend, we’ll hope that the rain showers will be brief so you can still enjoy the u-pick. The brief rain today didn’t deter this group of moms and children from having fun doing “u-pick” donuts!

Mark your calendars for the Three Rivers Area Fall Color Tour which is Sunday, October 14th. We are one of many stops and hope you will be able to be out to enjoy the area. Click here for more information. https://www.facebook.com/events/731427820303749/

Our special activities for fall color tour include:

• Local artists and specialty vendors: 11 to 5
• Local musicians/bands playing
• Camzies Pizza Food Truck: 11 to 5
• Live Birds of Prey exhibit: 1 to 3 (weather permitting)
• Brandy and Wine Tasting: 1 to 3
• Hard Cider Happy Hour: 1 to 3
• and of course….our market and bakery will be open our normal hours of 8 to 6.

Grapes:

Update posted 6pm on Monday October 8th.  Please do not come to pick purple Concord grapes without calling first to check on availability.  We had so many picked out over the past few days and we are assessing how many are left.  However, there are plenty of white grapes!   269-244-5690

Both the white Niagara and purple Concord vineyards are open for you to come pick. These are both seeded grapes used for making juice, jelly and for those who know them—for fresh eating! We are moving quickly through the Concord vineyards due to the number of people coming to pick them and not all the clusters being ready yet (still after all these weeks!). We have plenty of white grapes and will have those up until the first frost.

We have so many white grapes  that this is the year we are asking everyone to try the Niagara grapes. Here’s why:

• They are sweeter than the Concord
• They are easier to pick (larger clusters, less foliage and double wire trellis make them that way)
• They don’t stain like the purple Concords do

Those who have tried them have not gone back to Concord. Many are also mixing the two colors, especially into juice. It makes a nice pink juice and the white grapes sweeten it up.

To encourage all of you serious Concord juice makers into trying these, we are offering this incentive. If you pick 5 or more 20-pound buckets of Concords (100 pounds or over) you can pick one 20-pound bucket of white Niagaras for free! Take them home and try them out.

Fall Ornamentals and Winter Squash: We have pumpkins of all shapes and colors now, gourds, and mums for your fall decorating. We also have lots of squash. Remember, you can use your squash as a decoration first, then eat later!

Sweet Cider: We are pressing sweet cider now. Each week is a different mix and tastes a bit different….we work hard to blend the apples to make a nice sweet apple taste.

2018 Apple Update: We have a smaller crop of apples this year due to spring weather issues. Also, as you are in the u-pick apple orchard you will notice some of the other effects of the spring frost which left some scars on the apples.

Apples: Everything we have on the market now is listed below.

• Apple Special: In order to make room for later varieties coming in, we have three varieties (Northern Spies, Gala, and Cortland) on special. Buy two half bushels (or one bushel) for $24, and get an additional half bushel for free. So this is a $12 savings. You can mix and match.
  • Gala is a great eating and cooking apple. It has a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness.
  • Northern Spy: The professional baker’s dream, cooks up well in applesauce, pie and other dishes. Stores well, easy to remember by saying “Spies for pies.” We are currently using it in our pies in the bakery.
  • Cortland: A hint of tartness makes this a great baking variety, a descendent of the McIntosh, this variety is a bit sweeter than its ancestor. Juices really well.
• Honeycrisp: This seems to be many people’s favorite. It is crisp with an excellent sweet flavor and a “bite” to it. Great for eating fresh or using in salads. Sold by the pound only ($2).
• Jonathan: Pretty and popular, used for fresh eating and cooking, a favorite for apple butter and taffy apples.
• Red Delicious: America’s most popular apple “back in the day.” Best for fresh eating and snacks. Full-flavored sweet taste.
• Golden Delicious: A gingery-smooth, sweet taste under a thin skin. It’s the most popular yellow apple, good eaten fresh, baked or cut in salads.
• Cameo: Firm, crisp and sweet, tart. Great for snaking or baking. Keeps well in your refrigerator.
  

  Red Delicious apples are thick on the tree just waiting to be picked!

• U-Pick Apples are open now for most varieties. Picking is available during our business hours of 8 until 6. We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30 to be able to pick. Please check in at the market first for directions. You will be driving to the orchard, so send someone to the market to get directions before getting everyone (especially excited children) out of the car!

• Starting Saturday, 10-6, the following can be picked: Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Jonathan, Ida Reds, Cameo, Fuji and Northern Spies.
• Apple pricing for the year: Our apple pricing is the same as last year. The price is the same for picked apples or u-pick apples. With the exception of a few special varieties (like Honeycrisp) all the apples are: $24 a bushel**, $13 a half-bushel, $7.50 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $5 a half-peck, $3 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

What else is on the market:

• Onions, including Red Torpedo Tropea, Red Marble Cippolini, and Borrettana Cippolini are in. These are incredible for cooking or roasting.  Our large sweet onions are now cleaned and bagged (10 pounds) for you to take and have been “cured” to keep. This is a great year for onions.
• Bosc Pears. This is a beautiful, large, firm, sweet eating pear, that keeps very well. (Not a canning pear.)

Organics! Shiitake mushrooms, Bunching onions, leeks, sweet peppers, hot peppers, kale, swiss chard, baby ginger (half off this week!), and sweet potatoes!

Bakery:

This is our only weekend for apple dumplings (October 5-7th). They are available in a 2 count package. If you preordered them, you should have received a call to pick them up. If you didn’t pre-order, they made a few extra. An apple dumpling is one of our Cortland apples, filled with cinnamon and sugar, and wrapped in our famous pie dough.  Then it is baked with a sauce of butter, cinnamon and sugar. Quite the process as you can see, but look at the stacks that came out of the oven!

Bakery offerings for the weekend will be:

• Cookies:  Apple Caramel, M&M “Monster” Cookies, Ginger Molasses, S’mores, Cherry White Chocolate Chip, Coconut Pecan, and Lemon
• Pies:  Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Pecan, and Pumpkin.
• Breads: Vegetable, Whole Wheat, Whole Grain, Cinnamon, Vegetable, LaBrea Breads, Focaccia, Hamburger and Hotdog Buns, and Sunflower Seed Bread!
• Cinnamon Rolls, New Caramel Apple Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts
• Pumpkin Cake Rolls
• Assorted Muffins and Blueberry Coffee Cake
• Cake Donuts: Buttermilk, apple cider and pumpkin. Good news, these will be available every day now for the next several weeks while so many of you are out picking.
• Caramel Apples — made with JonaGold apples
• Gluten Free Sensations items in bakery freezer including pies, cookies, brownies, and cinnamon rolls!!
• Slushies (now in 2 sizes based on customer’s requests for larger size!)
• In the bakery freezer, Plainwell Vanilla Ice Cream, for pie a la mode!

• 

  Try our new caramel apple cinnamon rolls!

Hard Ciders, Wine and Brandies: Hometown Hero is back! We won a silver award for this blackberry, elderberry, rose hip cider, and we hope you like it too. Find Hard Cider Happy Hour in the onion barn. This is the building on top of the hill overlooking the playground and herb garden. Come find us 4-6pm Friday, 3-6pm Saturday and sample cider or get a growler filled. If you bring growlers from home and we’ll put our sticker over them, or buy one from us!  We have Preach (Pear/Peach), Brunch (Maple/Vanilla), Strawberry, Hopped, Afternoon (Strawberry/Chamomile), Sour Cherry/Sage, Standard Dry, Standard Sweet, United Squash Federation, Cortabella (pure cortland apple cider) and Standard Semi-Sweet in bottles. Several of our ciders are about sold out until next year so make sure you ask if there’s anything you want to stock up on.

If you’re looking for our cider outside of our farm, you can visit Rooster’s Wing Shack in Three Rivers, The Riviera Theatre in Three Rivers, Dussel’s in Cassopolis, Craft Beer Cellar in Grand Rapids, and as always, The Local in Centreville, Michigan. We also have cider at Hoffman Street Grocery in Three Rivers!

Brandy tasting and tours are this Saturday from 1-3. We also have our full line of Hubbard’s Brandy as well as Double Cherry Wine available behind the shelf at the market.

We thank you for buying local and hope to see you soon!

 

It looks like another beautiful weekend and we will have both grape and apple picking available, plus just the opportunity to enjoy all of the fall sights of the farm. So many smells, textures, and colors of pumpkins, mums, gourds, squash, apples and colored corn. Check out our giant pumpkins, the Spookley story in the straw bale fort, and the antique trucks, tractors and the like. Please share your photos with us on Facebook, Instagram, or email to us. (We are so busy in the fall we never get to see our own displays!!)

Please check out the first and second place winning giant pumpkins from this year’s St. Joseph County Fair, grown by Keith and Marc Whitford, weighing in at 522 pounds and 467 pounds, respectively.  We thank both of them for allowing us to share them with you!

Our u-pick orchard and vineyard team of Rachel and Marci are the friendly faces and helpful folks who are there to make sure you have a great experience picking apples and grapes. If you need anything while you are picking, please ask them.

Grapes:

Both the white Niagara and purple Concord vineyards are open for you to come pick. These are both seeded grapes used for making juice, jelly and for those who know them—for fresh eating! We should have them up until the first frost, so plan a trip out to get some. See info below on key information you should know before you come.  ***

We have so many white grapes  that this is the year we are asking everyone to try the Niagara grapes.  Here’s why:

• They are sweeter than the Concord
• They are easier to pick (larger clusters, less foliage and double wire trellis make them that way)
• They don’t stain like the purple Concords do

Those who have tried them have not gone back to Concord. Many are also mixing the two colors, especially into juice. It makes a nice pink juice and the white grapes sweeten it up.

To encourage all of you serious Concord juice makers into trying these, we are offering this incentive. If you pick 5 or more 20-pound buckets of Concords (100 pounds or over) you can pick one 20-pound bucket of white Niagara’s for free!  Take them home and try them out.

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord at $26 a bushel and $14 a half bushel. Please call the market at 269-244-5690 to order them.

Fall ornamentals and winter squash: We have pumpkins of all shapes and colors now, gourds, and mums for your fall decorating.   Remember, you can use your squash as a decoration first, then eat later!

Sweet Cider: We are pressing sweet cider now.

2018 Apple update:  We have a smaller crop of apples this year due to spring weather issues. Also, as you are in the U-PIck apple orchard you will notice some of the other affects of the spring frost which left some scars on the apples. At the bottom of this blog post, we have a chart*** which estimates when the varieties will be ready, and which ones we don’t have many of so that you can pre-order them.  We also have copies of this information at our market.

Apples: Everything we have on the market now is listed below.

• Apple Special: In order to make room for later varieties coming in, we have the following 3 varieties (Gala, Jon-A-Mac and Cortland) on special.  Buy two half bushels (or one bushel) for $24, and get an additional half bushel for free. So this is a $12 savings. You can mix and  match these 3 varieties.
  • Gala is a great eating and cooking apple. It has a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness
  • Jon-A-Mac: This is a good cooking or eating apple. It has all of the best qualities of a Jonathan and a McIntosh. A favorite for apple sauce
  • Cortland: A hint of tartness makes this a great baking variety, a descendent of the McIntosh, this variety is a bit sweeter than its ancestor. Juices really well.
• Honeycrisp: This seems to be many people’s favorite. It is crisp with an excellent sweet flavor and a “bite” to it. Great for eating fresh or using in salads. Sold by the pound only, ($2).
• JonaGold: Superbly crisp and juicy with shades of tart and sweet in each apple, very large and aromatic.  Cross between a Jonathan and Golden Delicious (These are almost gone for the year, call us if you want some saved for you)
• Jonathan: Pretty and popular, used for fresh eating and cooking, a favorite for apple butter and taffy apples.
• Northern Spy: The professional baker’s dream, cooks up well in applesauce, pie and other dishes. Stores well, easy to remember by saying “Spies for pies.” We are currently using it in our pies in the bakery.
• Red Delicious: America’s most popular apple “back in the day.” Best for fresh eating and snacks. Full-flavored sweet taste.
• Golden Delicious: A gingery-smooth, sweet taste under a thin skin. It’s the most popular yellow apple, good eaten fresh, baked or cut in salads.
• Ida Red: Eat fresh or for cooking, taste is both tangy and tart. Flesh is white, crisp and juicy. Texture holds up well when baked.  Only have a few.
• 

• U-pick apples are open now for many of the varieties. Apple are slow in ripening this year and getting their color and full flavor, partially due to the unusual weather we have had this year. Picking is available during our business hours of 8 until 6. We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30 to be able to pick. Please check in at the market first for directions.  You will be driving to the orchard, so send someone to the market to get directions before getting everyone (especially excited children) out of the car!
• Starting Saturday, 9-29, the following can be picked: Cortland, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Jonathan, Ida Reds, Cameo and Northern Spies, but we encourage you to wait if you can before you pick them or pick only small quantities as they really need to ripen more. If you pick, select them very carefully for those that are riper than others.
• Apple pricing for the year: Our apple pricing is the same as last year. The price is the same for picked apples or u-pick apples.  With the exception of a few special varieties (like Honeycrisp) all the apples are: $24 a bushel**, $13 a half-bushel, $7.50 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $5 a half-peck, $3 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Other Fruit offering

• Concord and Niagara grapes
• Bosc Pears: this is a sweet, hard, eating pear which keeps well (not a good canning pear)
• Tomatoes are now gone for the year….but what a good run, having them almost thru the month of September. We will all miss having a fresh tomato for sure….

Onions, including Red Torpedo Tropea, Red Marble Cippolini, and Borrettana Cippolini are in. These are incredible for cooking or roasting.  Our large sweet onions are now cleaned and bagged (10 pounds) for you to take and have been “cured” to keep. This is a great year for onions.

U-pick Herbs: Find bags, scissors for cutting around the neck of the bird overlooking the herb garden.  Almost everything is available right now except cilantro and dill.

Organics!  Lettuce (place an order if you want it for sure, it gets bought up fast!), bunching onions, leeks, sweet peppers, hot peppers, basil, swiss chard, and tomatoes from the certified organic hoophouse. This week Becca picked baby ginger that she grew, find it in the organic section of the market.

Bakery:

My first stop this morning was the bakery to find out why there was no hot water (yes a huge problem for a bakery) and upon arrival, it was clear that the night elves had fall on fast-forward (our bakers bake at night so everything is fresh when you come in). There was pumpkin and pecan pie, caramel apples, and pumpkin muffins. After resolving the hot water problem, I was rewarded with a hot pumpkin muffin—which was amazing with my first cup of coffee. Tonight they are making pumpkin cinnamon rolls with cream cheese frosting which the staff got to taste test last weekend.  They were unanimously approved by all….these are a must try.  Thanks Patti, Michaela and Amy for all the wonderful things you bake while we sleep.

Our Apple dumplings will be available for one weekend only  October 5-7th. They are available in a 2 count package and we are currently taking pre-orders for them, please call us at 269-244-5690 to put your name on the list!

Bakery offerings for the weekend will be:

• Cookies:  Apple caramel, M&M “Monster” Cookies, Ginger Molasses, S’mores, Cherry White Chocolate  Chip, Coconut Pecan, and Lemon
• Pies:  Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Peach, Pecan, and Pumpkin.
• Breads: Vegetable, Whole Wheat, Whole Grain, Cinnamon, Vegetable, LaBrea Breads, Focaccia, Hamburger and Hotdog Buns and Sunflower Seed Bread!
• Cinnamon Rolls, New Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts
• Assorted Muffins and Blueberry Coffee Cake
• Cake Donuts: Buttermilk, apple cider and pumpkin.  Good news, these will be available every day now for the next several weeks while so many of you are out picking.
• Caramel Apples — made with JonaGold apples
• Gluten Free Sensations items in bakery freezer including pies, cookies, brownies, and cinnamon rolls!!
• Slushies (now in 2 sizes based on customer’s requests for larger size!)
• In the bakery freezer, Plainwell Vanilla Ice Cream, for pie a la mode!

Hard Ciders, Wine and Brandies: We’ve moved Hard Cider Happy Hour, it’s in the onion barn now! This is the building on top of the hill overlooking the playground and herb garden. Come find us 4-6pm Friday, 3-6pm Saturday and sample cider or get a growler filled. If you bring growlers from home and we’ll put our sticker over them, or buy one from us!  We have Preach (Pear/Peach), Brunch (Maple/Vanilla), Strawberry, Hopped, Afternoon (Strawberry/Chamomile), Prince Tribute, Sour Cherry/Sage, Standard Dry, Standard Sweet, United Squash Federation, Cortabella (pure cortland apple cider) and Standard Semi-Sweet in bottles.

If you’re looking for our cider outside of our farm, you can visit Rooster’s Wing Shack in Three Rivers, The Riviera Theatre in Three Rivers, Dussel’s in Cassopolis, Craft Beer Cellar in Grand Rapids, and as always, The Local in Centreville, Michigan. We also have cider at Hoffman Street Grocery in Three Rivers!

Brandy tasting and tours are this Saturday from 1-3. We also have our full line of Hubbard’s Brandy as well as Double Cherry Wine available behind the shelf at the market.

Good news on Terri K who was injured in an ATV/SUV accident at the farm, she is home now continuing her recovery.  She came to the farm this past weekend with a smile and hugs for everyone.  We continue to thank the many people who continue to ask about her and are keeping her in your thoughts.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards thanks you for buying local. 

And here’s how one of our days went this week, there was no point in crying over spilled  grapes, but we wanted to!

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Variety		Crop Size Estimate	Will U-Pick be Available when they are ready?	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change timing earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn		good	no	2-Oct	yes
Cameo		good	yes	9-Oct	no
Cortland		good	yes	Ready now	no
Fuji		good	yes	9-Oct	no
Gala		good	All picked	Ready now	no
Golden Delicious		good	yes	24-Sep	no
Golden Supreme		few	no	24-Sep	yes
Honey Crisp		good	no	Ready now	no
Ida Red		few	yes	Ready now	yes
Jona Mac		few	All picked	Ready now	no
JonaGold		few	all picked	Ready now	yes
Jonathon		good	yes	Ready now	no
Macintosh		Gone for the year
Molly’s Del		Gone for the year
Mutsu		few	all picked	Ready now	yes
Northern Spy		good	yes	Ready now	no
Pink Lady		few	no	16-Oct	yes
Red Delicious		good	yes	Ready now	no
Rome		good	yes	16-Oct	no

National Farm Safety and Health Week, is recognized Sept. 16 – 22.  We’d like to remind everyone that many farms like ours, are into a heavy fall harvest.  This means many different tractors, farm vehicles and implements are out for many hours of the day, so please slow down and watch for them as you travel the rural roads.  We also ask for your help in watching for customer vehicles turning into our orchards and vineyards over the next month as people come to pick grapes and apples.  And a thank you in advance for this.

Good news on Terri K who was injured in an ATV/SUV accident at the farm, she went home today from the hospital.  There is still a long recovery ahead, but we are grateful that she is making such good progress.  She has taken up painting pumpkin gourds while she recovers….we hope to have some on our market soon for sale!

It looks like a beautiful weekend coming up, so we will have both grape and apple picking available, plus just the opportunity to enjoy all of the fall sights of the farm.  So many smells, textures, and colors of pumpkins, mums, gourds, squash, apples and colored corn.  Check out our giant pumpkins, the Spookley story in the straw bale fort, and the antique trucks, tractors and the like.  Please share your photos with us on Facebook, Instagram, or email to us.  (We are so busy in the fall we never get to see our own displays!!)

Grapes:

Both the white Niagara and purple Concord vineyards are open for you to come pick.  These are both seeded grapes used for making juice, jelly and for those who know them—for fresh eating!  We should have them up until the first frost, so plan a trip out to get some.    See info below on key information you should know before you come.  ***

We have so many white grapes  that this is the year we are asking everyone to try the Niagara grapes.  Here’s why:

• They are sweeter than the Concord
• They are easier to pick (larger clusters, less foliage and double wire trellis make them that way)
• They don’t stain like the purple Concords do

Those who have tried them have not gone back to Concord.  Many are also mixing the two colors, especially into juice.  It makes a nice pink juice and the white grapes sweeten it up.

To encourage all of you serious Concord juice makers into trying these, we are offering this incentive.  If you pick 5 or more 20-pound buckets of Concords (100 pounds or over) you can pick one 20-pound bucket of white Niagara’s for free!  Take them home and try them out.

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord at $26 a bushel and $14 a half bushel.  Please call the market at 269-244-5690 to order them.

Fall ornamentals and winter squash:  We have pumpkins of all shapes and colors now, gourds, and mums for your fall decorating.   Remember, you can use your squash as a decoration first, then eat later!

Sweet Cider: We are pressing sweet cider now.  Our first run was delicious!

2018 Apple update:  We have a smaller crop of apples this year due to spring weather issues. Also, as you are in the U-PIck apple orchard you will notice some of the other affects of the spring frost which left some scars on the apples.  At the bottom of this blog post, we have a chart which estimates when the varieties will be ready, and which ones we don’t have many of so that you can pre-order them.  We also have copies of this information at our market.

Apples:   Everything we have on the market now is listed below.  We hope to pick some Golden Delicious, Northern Spies and Jonathan for the weekend.  We will be spot picking so would encourage you to get bushels later (a week or so) when they are riper.

• Mollie’s Delicious is a large, sweet eating apple. It is a late summer apple which we will only have a short time
• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple. It has a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness
• Jon-A-Mac: This is a good cooking or eating apple. It has all of the best qualities of a Jonathan and a McIntosh. A favorite for apple sauce
• Honeycrisp: This seems to be many people’s favorite.  It is crisp with an excellent sweet flavor and a “bite” to it. Great for eating fresh or using in salads. Sold by the pound only, ($2).
• Macintosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.  We have a very light crop of these, they are all picked for the year will only last a few days.  Come or call right away if you want some of these.  
• JonaGold: Superbly crisp and juicy with shades of tart and sweet in each apple, very large and aromatic.  Cross between a Jonathan and Golden Delicious
• Cortland: A hint of tartness makes this a great baking variety,  A descendent of the McIntosh, this variety is a bit sweeter than its ancestor. Juices really well.
• Early Fuji: Fantastic sweet and tart flavor, with a low acid content, an incredibly good keeper. Stays for weeks without being refrigerated.  These are only available in half pecks and quarter pecks until the later Fuji is ready in a few weeks.
• 

•  U-Pick apples are open now for a few varieties.  Apple are slow in ripening this year and getting their color and full flavor.  Picking is available during our business hours of 8 until 6. We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30 to be able to pick. Please check in at the market first for directions.  You will be driving to the orchard, so send someone to the market to get directions before getting everyone (especially excited children) out of the car!
• There will be some remaining Gala and Cortland ready for you to pick this weekend.  We are opening some trees of Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Jonathan and Northern Spies, but we encourage you to wait if you can before you pick them or pick only small quantities as they really need to ripen more.  If you pick, select them very carefully for those that are riper than others.
• Apple pricing for the year: Our apple pricing is the same as last year. The price is the same for picked apples or u-pick apples.  With the exception of a few special varieties (like Honeycrisp) all the apples are: $24 a bushel**, $13 a half-bushel, $7.50 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $5 a half-peck, $3 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Other Fruit offering

• Concord and Niagara grapes
• Bosc Pears:  This is a sweet, hard, eating pear which keeps well (not a good canning pear)
• Tomatoes from the field are still coming in.
  • “Firsts” Tomatoes are $20 a bushel or $12 a half bushel
  • “Seconds” Tomatoes (have blemishes or are misshapen) are $14 a bushel.  These are great for making sauce, juice or salsa.
  • We hope to have tomatoes on hand now for those that have ordered them and those who would like to get some.  If you are trying to get bushels, it does help to call us to let us know, 269-244-5690
  • How long will they last?  We say up until the first frost, but they are in peak production right now so you should try to get them soon.

So on the market right now, we’ve got: eggplant, Brussels sprouts, winter squash, shallots, and field peppers in so many shapes and sizes–from hot to sweet! 

Onions, including Red Torpedo Tropea, Red Marble Cippolini, and Borrettana Cippolini are in. These are incredible for cooking or roasting.  Our large sweet onions are now cleaned and bagged (10 pounds) for you to take and have been “cured” to keep. This is a great year for onions.

U-pick Herbs: Find bags, scissors for cutting around the neck of the bird overlooking the herb garden.  Almost everything is available right now except cilantro and dill.

Organics!  Lettuce (place an order if you want it for sure, it gets bought up fast!), bunching onions, leeks, sweet peppers, hot peppers, basil, cucumbers, swiss chard, and lots of tomatoes including heirlooms, slicers, and cherry tomatoes from the certified organic hoophouse.  This week Becca picked baby ginger that she grew, find it in the organic section of the market.

Bakery:  We are not going to be able to make apple dumplings this year on a regular basis (due to apple shortage), but we are going to make them one weekend for everyone who wants them.  There will be a sign up sheet at the market for the apple dumpling lovers or you can email us or call us.  Let us know how many of the 2-apple pack dumplings you want.  Remember, these freeze well.  Be sure to come see us in the bakery! If there is a favorite pie, please feel free to call and have us save it back for you! 269-244-5690.

Bakery offerings for the weekend will be:

• Cookies:  Apple caramel, M&M “Monster” Cookies, Ginger Molasses, S’mores, Cherry White Chocolate  Chip, Coconut Pecan, and Lemon
• Pies:  Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Peach
• Breads: Vegetable, Whole Wheat, Whole Grain, Cinnamon, Vegetable, LaBrea Breads, Focaccia, Hamburger and Hotdog Buns and Sunflower Seed Bread!
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts
• Assorted Muffins and Blueberry Coffee Cake
• Cake Donuts: Buttermilk, apple cider and pumpkin (made on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
• Gluten Free Sensations items in bakery freezer including pies, cookies, brownies, and cinnamon rolls!!
• Slushies (now in 2 sizes based on customer’s requests for larger size!)
• In the bakery freezer, Plainwell Vanilla Ice Cream, for pie a la mode!

Hard Ciders, Wine and Brandies: We’ve moved Hard Cider Happy Hour, it’s in the onion barn now! This is the building on top of the hill overlooking the playground and herb garden. Come find us 4-6pm Friday, 3-6pm Saturday and sample cider or get a growler filled. If you bring growlers from home and we’ll put our sticker over them, or buy one from us!  We have Preach (Pear/Peach), Brunch (Maple/Vanilla), Strawberry, Hopped, Afternoon (Strawberry/Chamomile), Prince Tribute, Sour Cherry/Sage, Standard Dry, Standard Sweet, United Squash Federation, Cortabella (pure cortland apple cider) and Standard Semi-Sweet in bottles.

If you’re looking for our cider outside of our farm, you can visit Rooster’s Wing Shack in Three Rivers, The Riviera Theatre in Three Rivers, Dussel’s in Cassopolis, Craft Beer Cellar in Grand Rapids, and as always, The Local in Centreville, Michigan. We also have cider at Hoffman Street Grocery in Three Rivers!

Brandy tasting and tours are this Saturday from 1-3. We also have our full line of Hubbard’s Brandy as well as Double Cherry Wine available behind the shelf at the market.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards thanks you for buying local. 

***U Pick Grape information

Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm, we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6, except for Tuesday and Thursdays, where we will stay open until 8 pm (must be checked into the market by 6 pm).

• Please check in at the main market on Corey Lake Road before you start.  You will be directed to the vineyard in which we are picking that day and be assigned rows to pick on by our vineyard and orchard supervisor.
• If you are coming to pick grapes, please bring clippers, scissors, 5 gallon buckets and small wagons if you have them. Some of our rows are very long!  If you don’t have 5 gallon buckets to pick in, we will loan you ours, but please bring something to take your grapes back home in (boxes, plastic tubs, etc.).
  • Pricing will be the same as last year:  U-pick pricing for both color grapes is the following (please note we sell them by the pound and consider a level five-gallon pail or a 1/2 bushel basket to be 20 pounds):
    • 40 cents a pound for 20 pounds or less, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel= $8
    • 21 to 100 pounds: 35 cents pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $7
    • Over 100 pounds; 25 cents pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel=$5

Apple information update:

Variety		Crop Size Estimate	Will U-Pick be Available when they are ready?	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change timing earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn		good	no	2-Oct	yes
Cameo		good	yes	9-Oct	no
Cortland		good	Picking now	Ready now	no
Fuji		good	yes	9-Oct	no
Gala		gppd	Picking now	Ready now	no
Golden Delicious		good	Just starting**	24-Sep	no
Golden Supreme		few	no	24-Sep	yes
Honey Crisp		good	no	Ready now	no
Ida Red		few	yes	24-Sep	yes
Jona Mac		few	All picked	Ready now	no
JonaGold		few	all picked	Ready now	yes
Jonathon		good	Just starting**	24-Sep	no
Macintosh		few	all picked	Ready now	yes
Molly’s Del		good	all picked	Ready now	no
Mutsu		few	yes	24-Sep	yes
Northern Spy		good	Just starting**	24-Sep	no
Pink Lady		few	no	16-Oct	yes
Red Delicious		good	Just starting**	24-Sep	no
Rome		good	yes	16-Oct	no
		**These are just starting, wait a while for better flavor and large quantities

What picture perfect days we have had this week. Our apples and grapes are loving these cool nights which help them size and color…and get sweeter. The weather put us in a fall decorating mood, so enjoy the many colorful displays that Teri has started putting together (Thanks Teri!). And don’t let a scarecrow frighten you like one did to me when I came to work in the dark this morning and thought there was a real person sitting on the bench!

We plan to have our antique trucks and tractors out by this weekend for your annual photo opportunities. So check them out and please share your photos with us. We love to see folks enjoying our farm!

Grape update:  Here’s the latest story on the grapes, which is the most frequently asked question and call for sure right now! One drive by our farm with open windows and you too will know that the grapes are getting closer by the amazing fragrance you can now smell.

Sugar samples of both Niagara and Concord grapes were taken Tuesday and did not measure as high as we would like. Grapes are running about a week behind last year, with the white Niagara being riper than the purple Concord.

We are going to open u-pick grapes on Saturday 9-15 for the season. There are plenty of grapes, and the longer customers wait, the sweeter/riper they will get. We encourage everyone to wait if they can. We feel the peak grape ripeness will be the week of 9-24 and after. But, we know people all have busy lives so opening up early gives those who can only come out this weekend a chance to get some. Again, we have lots of grapes this year—of both colors–(50 acres) and will have them up until the first frost.

• Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm, we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6, except for Tuesday and Thursdays, where we will stay open until 8 pm (must be checked into the market by 6pm).
• Please check in at the main market on Corey Lake Road before you start. You will be directed to the vineyard in which we are picking that day and be assigned rows to pick on by our vineyard and orchard supervisor.
• If you are coming to pick grapes, please bring clippers, scissors, 5 gallon buckets and small wagons if you have them. Some of our rows are very long! If you don’t have 5 gallon buckets to pick in, we will loan you ours, but please bring something to take your grapes back home in. (Boxes, plastic tubs, etc.)
  • Pricing will be the same as last year: u-pick pricing for both color grapes is the following (please note we sell them by the pound and consider a five-gallon pail or a 1/2 bushel basket to be 20 pounds):
    • 40 cents a pound for 20 pounds or less, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel= $8
    • 21 to 100 pounds: 35 cents pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $7
    • Over 100 pounds; 25 cents pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel=$5

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord, they are $26 a bushel, $14 half bushel, please call the market at 269-244-5690 to order them.

Fall ornamentals and winter squash:  We have pumpkins of all shapes and colors now, gourds, and mums for your fall decorating.  Check out the new varieties of squash we are growing this year (like baked and mashed potato squash).  Remember, you can use your squash as a decoration first, then eat later!

Sweet Cider: We are going to try to make it this weekend! Feel free to call before you come out to get it to make sure we were able to press it.

2018 Apple update:  We have a smaller crop of apples this year due to spring weather issues. At the bottom of this blog post,*** we have a chart which estimates when they will be ready and which ones we don’t have many of that you can pre-order. We also have copies of this information at our market for you to pick up.

Apples:  This week we picked a few more apple varieties.  Everything we have on the market now is listed below.

• Mollie’s Delicious is a large, sweet eating apple. It is a late summer apple which we will only have a short time
• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple. It has a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness
• Jon-A-Mac: This is a good cooking or eating apple. It has all of the best qualities of a Jonathan and a McIntosh. A favorite for apple sauce
• Honeycrisp: This seems to be many people’s favorite. It is crisp with an excellent sweet flavor and a “bite” to it. Great for eating fresh or using in salads.  Sold by the pound only.($2)
• Macintosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.  We have a very light crop of these, they are all picked for the year will only last a few days.  Come or call right away if you want some of these.  
• JonaGold: Superbly crisp and juicy with shades of tart and sweet in each apple, very large and aromatic.  Cross between a Jonathan and Golden Delicious
• Cortland: A hint of tartness makes this a great baking variety, A descendent of the McIntosh, this variety is a bit sweeter than its ancestor. Juices really well.
• Early Fuji: Fantastic sweet and tart flavor, with a low acid content, an incredibly good keeper. Stays for weeks without being refrigerated.  These are only available in half pecks and quarter pecks until the later Fuji is ready in a few weeks.
• 

•  U-Pick apples will be available on Saturday and Sunday , during the hours we are open which is 8 until 6. We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30 to be able to pick. Please check in at the market by 5:15 to get directions and containers to pick
• There will be 4 varieties ready for you to pick this weekend:  Gala, JonaMac, Mollie’s Delicious and Cortland. 
• Apple pricing for the year: Our apple pricing is the same as last year. The price is the same for picked apples or u-pick apples. With the exception of a few special varieties (like Honeycrisp) all the apples will be: $24 a bushel**, $13 a half-bushel, $7.50 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $5 a half-peck, $3 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.
• 

Other Fruit offering

• Fredonia Grapes (this is an early grape like a Concord grape, with seeds)
• Watermelon:  The last week for these
• Stanley prune plums--available in quarts only, we had a very poor crop this year 🙁
• Tomatoes from the field are still coming in.
  •  “Firsts” Tomatoes are $20 a bushel or $12 a half bushel
  • “Seconds” Tomatoes (have blemishes or are misshapen) are $14 a bushel… These are great for making sauce, juice or salsa
  • We hope to have tomatoes on hand now for those that have ordered them and those who would like to get some. If you are trying to get lots of bushels, it does help to call us to let us know, 269-244-5690
  • How long will they last? We say up until the first frost, but they are in peak production right now so you should try to get them in the next several weeks if you want large quantities

So on the market right now, we’ve got: fresh sweet corn, (this is the last week) eggplant, Brussels sprouts, winter squash, shallots, and field peppers in so many shapes and sizes–from hot to sweet! 

Onions, including Red Torpedo Tropea, Red Marble Cippolini, and Borrettana Cippolini are in. These are incredible for cooking or roasting. Our large sweet onions are now cleaned and bagged (10 pounds) for you to take. They have been “cured” to keep. This is a great year for onions.

U-pick Herbs: Find bags, scissors for cutting around the neck of the bird overlooking the herb garden. Almost everything is available right now except cilantro and dill.

Organics! Lettuce (place an order if you want it for sure, it gets bought up fast!), bunching onions, leeks, sweet peppers, hot peppers, basil, cucumbers, swiss chard, and lots of tomatoes including heirlooms, slicers, and cherry tomatoes from the certified organic hoophouse. We’ve started putting out cured garlic which will be good to use fresh or to store for the upcoming months. We are taking our organic tomatoes out soon so get them while you can!

Bakery: Be sure to come see us in the bakery! If there is a favorite pie, please feel free to call and have us save it back for you! 269-244-5690.

Bakery offerings for the weekend will be:

• Cookies:  M&M “Monster” Cookies, Ginger Molasses, S’mores, Cherry White Chocolate  Chip, Coconut Pecan, and Lemon
• Pies:  Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Peach, and Pear (this is the last weekend for pear pie)
• Breads: Vegetable, Whole Wheat, Whole Grain, Cinnamon, Vegetable, LaBrea Breads, Focaccia, Hamburger and Hotdog Buns and Sunflower Seed Bread!
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts
• Assorted Muffins and Blueberry Coffee Cake
• Cake Donuts: Buttermilk, apple cider and pumpkin (made on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
• Gluten Free Sensations items in bakery freezer including pies, cookies, brownies, and cinnamon rolls!!
• Slushies (now in 2 sizes based on customer’s requests for larger size!)
• In the bakery freezer, Plainwell Vanilla Ice Cream, for pie a la mode!

Hard Ciders, Wine and Brandies: We’ve moved Hard Cider Happy Hour, it’s in the onion barn now! This is the building on top of the hill overlooking the playground and herb garden. Come find us 4-6pm Friday, 3-6pm Saturday and sample cider or get a growler filled. If you bring growlers from home and we’ll put our sticker over them, or buy one from us! New this week: Cortabella Hard Cider! This is a pure Cortland cider, conditioned in-bottle, that got us our highest competition marks ever. If you like a dry cider (no residual sweetness) try it out! We also have Preach (Pear/Peach), Brunch (Maple/Vanilla), Strawberry, Hopped, Afternoon (Strawberry/Chamomile), Prince Tribute, Sour Cherry/Sage, Standard Dry, Standard Sweet, United Squash Federation, and Standard Semi-Sweet in bottles.

If you’re looking for our cider outside of our farm, you can visit Rooster’s Wing Shack in Three Rivers, The Riviera Theatre in Three Rivers, Dussel’s in Cassopolis, Craft Beer Cellar in Grand Rapids, and as always, The Local in Centreville, Michigan. We also have cider at Hoffman Street Grocery in Three Rivers!

Brandy tasting and tours are this Saturday from 1-3. We also have our full line of Hubbard’s Brandy as well as Double Cherry Wine available behind the shelf at the market.

Update on Terri K:  Thanks to all of you who continue to stop, call and inquire about Terri’s medical status.  She is doing better each day and making good progress in healing. She is out of intensive care and in the rehabilitation center of the hospital, where she will stay for a while. We all miss her and will continue to provide updates.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards thanks you for buying local. 

***

Variety	Crop Size Estimate	Will U-Pick be Available when they are ready?	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change timing earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn	good	no	2-Oct	yes
Cameo	good	yes	9-Oct	no
Cortland	good	yes	Ready now	no
Fuji	good	yes	9-Oct	no
Gala	good	yes	Ready now	no
Golden Delicious	good	yes	24-Sep	no
Golden Supreme	few	no	24-Sep	yes
Honey Crisp	good	no	Ready now	no
Ida Red	few	yes	24-Sep	yes
Jona Mac	few	yes	Ready now	no
JonaGold	few	all picked	Ready now	yes
Jonathon	good	yes	24-Sep	no
Macintosh	few	all picked	Ready now	yes
Molly’s Del	good	yes	Ready now	no
Mutsu	few	yes	24-Sep	yes
Northern Spy	good	yes	24-Sep	no
Pink Lady	few	no	16-Oct	yes
Red Delicious	good	yes	24-Sep	no
Rome	good	yes	16-Oct	no