Happy Thanksgiving!

As farmers working the land every day, we are truly grateful for all that we harvested this year and the abundance that we could share with so many.  Safely enjoy this time with loved ones.

Winter Open Dates and Hours

You asked and we listened!  Based on how many folks have continued to come to the farm these past Saturdays and asked us to keep this going, we have decided to open for the next four Saturdays with limited hours (10 am to 2 pm) to continue to provide you with fresh apples, vegetables, and other staples.  Prior to each Saturday we will let you know what will be available.  Note: The bakers have agreed to come back to bake cookies and other goodies for December 19th and Santa has agreed to stop by for a visit also.  Details coming soon!

Just remember it is the winter weather season, and we are an open-air market located on top of a hill.  Sooooo, there may be Saturdays where Mother Nature might win and we cannot open.  If that should occur, just watch for our Facebook and website postings c920.

Recognition of Small Business Saturday

This Saturday is Small Business Saturday.  Promoted by American Express, Small Business Saturday celebrates the uniqueness that small businesses add to our community.  It occurs the Saturday after Black Friday with the goal to highlight, in the busy holiday season, what mom and pop stores do all year long in providing goods and services that meet the needs of their own area.

As a small, family-owned business we depend on our local community to support our goal of providing fresh food locally grown.  You, our loyal customers, have returned week after week, year after year, and we are grateful for your support one hand clapping 다운로드.

Hours and Offerings This Week

Hours this Saturday, November 28:  10 am to 2 pm
Reminder:  Pre order and/or curbside also available, or simply come in the market to shop!

We will be rolling out some specials this Saturday (listed below).  This has been a particularly difficult year for small businesses, and we encourage you to support our other neighbors’ enterprises here and in your local communities as well throughout this season.

• Babcock’s Apiary:  Honey
• Maple Row Sugarhouse:  Maple syrup and maple syrup products
• Bankson Lake Farms:  Lettuce, kohlrabi, mushrooms, and garlic

Small Business Saturday Sale

• Special of Buy 2 bags of apples, get one free continues
• All ¼ peck bags of apples are $2 (regularly $3.50) until we run out.  Get everyone in your household their favorite type or pick up for gifts Download the Bethlehem Bible for Mac!
• Buy a ½ peck of Red Rome apples and get an onion free to make your own apple quiche, recipe below and available in hard copy at the market.  This recipe comes from our own staff member Caryn Wilson, who serves this to her guests at her local business – Voyager’s Inn Bed and Breakfast in Three Rivers
• Hard Cider Special:  22 ounce Sweet, normally $5, now $4 each.  Make the quiche for brunch and serve it with hard cider (just like a mimosa)!

Available on the Market this Week

• Produce – Apples, onions, squash, lettuce, garlic, kohlrabi, mushrooms
• Animal apples – Bag your own half bushel for $4.50
• Take and Bake Pies – We have Blueberry, Cherry, Cherry Berry, and Dutch Apple take and bake pies in our freezer!
• Pantry Staples – Honey, maple syrup, some jams and jellies
• Alcohol Products – Hard ciders, wine and brandy
• Straw – $6 a bale (seems to be a popular request as winter weather sets in)

Apples for Sale

• Golden Delicious:  A gingery-smooth, sweet taste under a thin skin previous version of office. It is the most popular yellow apple, good eaten fresh, baked or cut in salads.  Makes a nice apple sauce and many people use for canning pie filling.
• Red Delicious:  America’s most popular apple, known for the “five little bumps” on the bottom. Best for fresh eating and snacks.  Full-flavored sweet taste, yellowish flesh, and crisp texture.
• 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”.
• Cameo:  Firm, crisp and sweet, tart. Great for snacking 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 refrigerated.
• Rome: A big, round apple right out of storybooks! Rome’s have a mild, sweet flavor. Most popular for baking because it holds flavor and shape well.
• Pink Lady: Medium size apple with a firm, crisp flesh, and a tart taste with a sweet finish.  Stores well.

Apple pricing for the year:  $28 a bushel,, $15 a half-bushel, $9 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $6 a half-peck, and $3.50 a 1/4 peck.    BUY 2 OF THE SAME SIZE, GET ONE FREE OF THE SAME SIZE!

Apple Cheddar Quiche

From staff member Caryn Wilson who owns the Voyager’s Inn Bed and Breakfast in Three Rivers, MI.  This is a tried and true favorite she makes for her guests!

• Select desired size baking dish
• Cut apple into bite size pieces, enough for a single layer in the dish
• Dice onion
• Sauté onion and apple in a bit of cooking oil
• Apples should be semi-firm; do not over-cook
• Spread apple/onion mix into baking dish
• Whip eggs with a small amount of milk
• Sprinkle eggs with nutmeg, allspice, cinnamon, garlic powder (if desired), salt
• Sprinkle eggs with a bit of Bisquick and whip mixture
• Pour egg mixture over apples; egg mixture should completely cover apples
• Top with plenty of grated cheddar cheese
• Bake at 350, until golden brown and knife comes out clean

Tips on Storing Apples

If you are trying to keep apples for the winter, we recommend Fuji or Red Rome as two of the varieties the keep the best.  Here is information on how best to store them.

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 are 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.

Thank You for Supporting our Business!

We sincerely thank you for shopping local!  We look forward to seeing you soon.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards

Market Operations

Pre-ordering:  For your convenience pre-ordering is available.

Curbside service:  We are happy to provide contactless curbside service.

1.  Simply call ahead with your order.  Pay over the phone by credit card or give us cash or a check when you pick up.  When you arrive, please park in the designated curbside area adjacent to our market, beep your horn, and we will bring it out to you.
2. If you are not able to place your order in advance, no problem.  Please pull into the curbside area, beep your horn, and we will take care of you.  It just may take us a few minutes to get your order together.

We intend to continue to offer curbside service as an integral part of our market.  We know we have a steep hill to climb from the parking lot, babies can be asleep in cars, dogs do not want to be left alone, you are in a hurry, or a myriad of other reasons!

Our policies and procedures will evolve as new, reliable information and local guidelines become available.  We wish to maintain the peaceful, rejuvenating shopping experience our customers have come to rely on during these times.  For a list of the changes we made due to COVID-19, please see below.

Current Operational Changes to the Market 

• We will have one-way entering and exiting for the market.  Customers should enter at the stairway, travel north side of the market towards the Bakery, curve around by Bakery, travel towards the checkout counter, and exit traveling west toward the play yard.
• For social distancing, we have marked the floors marked with X’s or potted plants every 6 feet.
• We have a hand washing station at the top of the hill as well as hand sanitizer in the market.
• We encourage everyone to use a face covering and consider using gloves.
• Please only touch items you are going to purchase to minimize surface contact.  If you prefer to not touch anything our clerks would be happy to gather items for you.

 

 

Hello from where we are all sheltering in place on the farm!  So the world is changing and things are unsettling.  However, the rhythm of spring is in perfect tempo here on the farm.  We are grateful for the mild winter where our fruit trees, plants and vines got their winter rest and the chilling requirements they needed, and now have begun their annual growth.  Peaches, cherries, plums and early apples are budding out more each day.  It is truly exciting to see peach trees growing again after last year’s winter injury where we didn’t have any peaches Angry Birds Action Download!

During this time with so many businesses closed, we take our responsibility of being one of the critical industries (Agriculture and Food) seriously.  We have a small but mighty crew working daily to finish up pruning, begin to prepare the ground for planting, and tend to all the plants growing in the greenhouse.  We are carefully monitoring the best practices for keeping food and our employees safe, which has always been our priority.  Rest assured, we are going to keep growing fruits and vegetables like normal and we will work together to find ways to get them to you, our customers Word trial.

The tomatoes are thriving in the greenhouse, and so it is time to extend our annual promise to get you a good tasting tomato for your first BLT by the middle of May.  Our 20,000-plus onion plants are doing well in the greenhouse, growing our own onions from seed using our own greenhouse is a new experience for us.  You’ll be hearing a lot more about this as we are learning, sometimes the hard way 윈도우7 한글 언어팩 다운로드!

A few weeks ago, after starting our morning with a beautiful sunrise, we got our straw down in the strawberry rows; now we’re waiting for the plants to start pushing out for the year.  We have added an additional field of strawberries this year with some varieties that will help us extend the season about a week longer.  It is always hard to say goodbye to a Michigan strawberry when they are finished for the year windows 10 버전 1709 다운로드!

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Now that spring is revving up, we’ll try to get back to our weekly updates.   Probably like you, the “sheltering-in-place “makes us want to stay more connected.  Please stay safe and healthy and let’s all remain positive as we adjust to a changed world.  Thanks from everyone at Corey Lake Orchards ecm!

 

 

 

 

A very Happy Valentine’s Day to all of you from all of us here at the farm and “winter” greetings as well.  However, for most of the winter it has seemed like Spring or Fall here – like many of you are also experiencing.  It seems like every day requires a decision on what outer gear to wear, from tall boots to mud boots, to sweatshirt layers or a full blown parka This is a true story download!   Maybe this means strawberries will be early this year?!!  Whose ready for a Michigan strawberry?

 

Our orchards and vineyards must surely be confused as some of our “winter” days  have been near 50 degrees!  We’re up to our usual winter activities, mainly pruning.  All of the apple orchards are trimmed and we are two thirds done with our grapevine pruning.  While these perennial crops should be deep into their dormant winter’s sleep, we sense they aren’t sleeping well with the weather changes!  When we are pruning on some of these warmer days I swear I hear the grapevines saying “ouch” as we cut them 동키콩 컨트리 다운로드!

You might have noticed that our greenhouse plastic roof blew off in one of our Fall windstorms.  It was replaced a few weeks ago and many thanks to the crew of 7 who helped get the 100-foot piece of plastic pulled over and secured.  Now the greenhouse would like to have some sun…..no, the black and white filter was not on for these pictures, it has been a grey winter for sure:(

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Day 1 was spent on a 15-hour bus tour seeing the operations of 4 local farms.  The plantations were quite beautiful and delighting with Southern charm.  It was interesting to see how they handle group tours and how they presented antebellum history through education.  Her favorite stop was touring the only commercial tea plantation in the US and learn how tea is harvested, processed, and packaged charles 다운로드.  Being a tea lover, she enjoyed the tastings at the hot and cold “tea bars”.  Dinner that evening was aboard the USS Yorktown at Patriot’s Point 셀럽파이브 다운로드.

Days 2-4 were spent visiting exhibitors and attending education seminars.  There were over 100 vendors with products to support farm markets such as jams, jellies, playground equipment, donut machines, custom corn mazes, packaging materials, gift products, and more.  She attended sessions on planning and hosting events, photography, graphic design, staff scheduling, retail strategies, food and beverage management, generational differences, and future trends Papan 6 download.

One of the best parts of the conference was meeting congenial peers with operations similar to ours.  She left loving her new NAFDMA family and knows just the person to contact when she has a question!  The constant idea exchange between attendees was great and she left with bushels of new insights, projects to consider, and proven ideas 솔뫼 체 다운로드!   Stay tuned to see what we will do with all of this for 2020!

We are enjoying the quiet of winter, the chance to sleep in and read books by the fire before going to the farm for the day, catching up with friends and family, playing with Emma-Grace in the snow, when we have some!  But…..we do love and miss our many wonderful customers, so again, Happy Valentine’s Day from all of us here at the farm smartphone virus!

 

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He moved to leave and I heard an engine roar, he was driving my new tractor right out the door, But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight, HAPPY CHRISTMAS TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD-NIGHT!