Celebrate a fun weekend at the farm, and for many it will be a 3 day weekend with Columbus Day on Monday!  (Yes we are open Monday)  We have U-Pick apples, grapes, pumpkins and donuts!!  Plus a festival here on Sunday!

Three Rivers Area Fall Color Tour, Sunday, Oct. 13 from 11 am to 5 pm

Join us for the Fall Color Tour this Sunday!  The weather forecast looks perfect, sun and cool, sweatshirt weather!  We will have food, fun, fruit, arts and crafts, music, and other special events during that time.  Corey Lake Orchards is one of 12 stops on the scenic, fun-filled tour to celebrate the beauty of Fall in the Three Rivers area.  Find more about the event here:  https://events.trchamber.com/events/details/fall-color-tour-826

Our market, bakery, up-pick apples, and u-pick grapes are available during our normal business hours of 8 am to 6 pm.  In addition we will have:

• CLO Brandy House (noon to 3 pm)
• CLO Hard Cider Tastings (noon to 3 pm)
• Birds of Prey (1 to 3 pm, weather permitting)
• The Chillbilly’s Band (foot-stomping music from 1 to 4 pm)
• Camzie’s Pizza Food Truck
• Hope Foundation Fire Truck
• Face Painting by Constantine High School Art Club

Visit our many talented and creative vendors.  Now is the time to start your holiday shopping!

• Art by Anna
• Barb’s Bowls
• Bushman Music
• Cindy’s Whimsies
• Clear Lake Studio Works
• Delightful Designs
• Donna Young
• Faith in Flora
• High View Studio
• Jake’s Country Meats
• Laughing Horse Artisan
• Mary Hanlin
• Nature’s Edibles from Ginger Hills Farms
• Pugling Hoard
• Teresa Featherstone
• The Sustainable Hive
• Vicki Latua
• Webster Knife Works
• The Wood Whacker

We loved celebrating Apple Crunch Day today..…thanks to all who crunched into one of our apples today!!

It’s Apple Season!  Here’s what we have in the market for sale now:  

• 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).
• McIntosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.  Come soon, not many left.
• 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.
• 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 and juices really well.  Come soon, not many left.
• 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 have very few of these this year, if you want some please call and order.  if you have already placed an order, we have called you to come pick them up.
• 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.  Makes a nice apple sauce and many people use for canning pie filling.  We have a bumper crop of these this year!  However, many of them have some russet marks on the skin caused by some of the extremes in the spring weather.   It does not go skin deep, but just doesn’t look very pretty:(  We are bagging these up as “seconds,” and doing a special price on them for $8 a half bushel (normal pricing is $14 a half bushel.  This is a great deal for someone who is going to process a lot of apples or wants to feed animals.

These apples we hope to have on the market this weekend:

• Cameo: Firm, crisp and sweet, tart. Great for snacking or baking. Keeps well in your refrigerator.
• Ida Red: Suits your every use! Eat fresh or for cooking. Taste is both tangy and tart. Flesh is white, crisp and juicy. Favored for sauces, pies and desserts. Texture holds up well when baked.
• Mutsu: Has a moderately sweet flavor with firm, juicy and creamy white flesh. Its skin color is a yellowish green with an orange blush. It is excellent for fresh eating, sauces, juice, and baking. This apple stores and keeps well.
• 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.
• Braeburns: Sweet with a hint of tart, and a firmness that stores well. These traits plus the fact that they bake well have made them a very versatile apple.

If you have ordered Mutsu or Ida Reds, we are in the process of bagging your orders and will call you when ready.

We currently have some apple specials on Gala and JonaMac.   Buy 2 half bushel bags and get one free.   Can mix and match, so you are getting 1 and 1/2 bushels (3 bags) for $26.  Can’t use that many apples?  Drop off at a local food bank, take to a sporting event to share, make lots of applesauce and freeze!

• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple with 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.

Apple picking will be available on Saturday,  Sunday and Columbus Day Monday (October 12, 13, and 14).   This could be our be our last days to pick apples for the year.  Check our website later to see if we will have any other weekends for apple picking yet this month.  We will be open during our business hours of 8 until 6.  Please check in at the market first to get directions as you will be driving to the orchard.  We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30, and checked in at the market by 5:15.

The U-Pick Apples varieties available will be:   Yellow and Red Delicious, Cameo and Fuji.  You might find other varieties left that didn’t get picked last weekend.  Trees are loaded, lots of fun!

Apple pricing for the 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: $26 a bushel**, $14 a half-bushel, $8.00 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $6 a half-peck, $3.50 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Apple Gleaning:  Traditionally we have opened apple gleaning after we have finished the apple harvest.  This year since we had fewer apples, there may not be much left for gleaning.  Gleaning is where you can pick what is left off the ground or the tree at a reduced price.  Check back around October18 to see if we will have gleaning available.

Apple Cider update:  This week’s cider is superb; we have lots of Honeycrisp in it!   Try a free sample at the market.  Our cider is not pasteurized, so must be refrigerated.

Wondering when your favorite apple will be ready?  Each week we will publish an apple estimate at the end of this post.***  Most of the dates have moved back, as rainy weather does not ripen apples!

Squash:  We have many varieties of winter squash, try our baked or mashed potato squash!

Pumpkins!  Orange pumpkins, white pumpkins, pumpkins with bumps, striped pumpkins, large pumpkins, small pumpkins…..we have pumpkins!  Come pick yours out!  Priced from $10 to $2, based on size.

U-Pick pumpkins: Looking for a fun activity for the kids?  We just opened our u-pick pumpkin patch.  The cost is $10 per family which includes picking a large pumpkin.  Additional pumpkins are available for picking at $8 (large), $5 (medium), $2 (small pie) each.  It’s never too early to show children that pumpkins grow on vines in a field, not a parking lot!  The field will be open daily from 8 until 6, (except for Tuesdays when we are closed.)  If we have a significant amount of rain, we may have to close it until it dries out.

We also have carved out several great spots in the field for pumpkin or Thanksgiving photos with your children.  Please note that photographers with appointments have priority to using these areas.

White Niagara You Pick Grape Update:  The white Niagara grapes opened for U-pick on Saturday 9-21 for the season.   We have less than half of a crop of these this year due to the winter freeze.  At this time, there are only a few rows left that have not been picked but folks are still finding them!

Purple Concord You Pick grape update:   We are still picking Concord grapes.  Just remember we are closed on Tuesday!  Concord grapes usually last up until the first frost.  It just depends how many customers come and how many get picked.  Additional information about grape picking can be found below.**

Picked grapes: We are no longer taking orders for picked grapes.

U-PIck visitors to our farm, please be aware that we are located in St. Joseph County, MI where cases of Triple E have occurred.  While we have not seen many mosquitos around lately, we want everyone to be diligent and protected.  Eastern Equine Encephalitis or commonly known as Triple E or sleeping sickness caused the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to urge locals to protect themselves from the bite of infected mosquitoes.  Initially infecting horses with a reported 90 percent fatality rate, people are still warned for they can also be bitten by infected mosquitoes. Though it is a rare cause of potentially fatal brain infections in people, “it has a 33 [percent] fatality rate for humans who become ill,” Lynn Sutfin of the MDHHS said.  Here’s what you can do to take precaution:

• Apply insect repellents that are EPA-registered or contain DEET to exposed skin. Follow the manufacturer’s directions for use.
• Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants when outdoors. It is also important to wear light colored clothes so as not to attract mosquitoes.

This weekend in the bakery  we will have pumpkin cupcakes, pumpkin pies, and pecan pies! If you would like anything reserved give us a call at 269-244-5690 and we will be happy to save it for you!

This weekend’s offerings will be:

• Cookies:  Cut-out cookies, Frosted Lemon, M&M “Monster”, Chaos, Mudslide, and Salted Caramel
• Pies:   Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Pecan, and Pumpkin.
• Apple Crisp
• Pumpkin cupcakes 
• Breads: Wheat and Rye Herb, Potato Scallion, and Herb Baguette.  Whole Wheat, Honey Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Italian, Tuscan,  Hamburger and Hotdog Buns
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts, muffins, scones
• Dessert bars: peanut butter mousse, chocolate caramel, lemon burst, chocolate truffle, chocolate and white mousse
• Fall flavors cake donuts: Buttermilk, Apple Cider, and Pumpkin (Available Friday, Saturday,  Sunday and Columbus Day Monday)
• Slushies- 3 flavors; Unpasteurized Apple Cider, White Grape Peach, and Grape blend. 

We are starting to take orders for Holiday take and bake pies. Pies need to be ordered 3 days in advance and we will be taking orders until the market and bakery close for the season. We will have one November pickup date — Saturday,  November 23 from 9-12, or you can pickup any day before the market and bakery close for the season.

Look for our “take and bake” pies for you to stock up on in your freezer (for you to indulge in). “Take and bake” pie choices are all large-9″ pies and available flavors in the freezer now.

Photographers – If you are interested in Fall photo opportunities on our farm, please contact Brenda@coreylakeorchards.com.  She will work with you to schedule appointments, provide information on our photo policies and discuss backdrop possibilities in the apple orchard, the pumpkin field and other picturesque spots we have on the farm.

Alcohol offerings:

• Brandies:  Pear, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Peach, and Grappa
• Rye Whiskey
• Wines: Double Cherry and New:  Peach and Honey (already a favorite by those who have tried it)
• Hard Cider flavors: A late summer hard cider is back, Blueberry, and it is delicious! We also have Standard Dry, Standard Sweet, Bark Bite, Cortabella, Preach, United Squash Federation, Ginger, Strawberry and Brunch.
• Brandy tours and tasting is available every Saturday from 1 until 3 pm, in the Brandy Barn/Distillery    We offer brandy, wine and some hard cider samples. It’s always an interesting and fun experience.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards thanks you for buying local, we hope to see you at the farm soon!

Reminder:  Corey Lake Orchards is closed every Tuesday.  We will continue to share this notice since it is a major change.  As a small family business, we have begun to realize that to best serve our customers with an exceptional product and experience, we need a down day once per week to regroup, reorganize, and re-energize.

**Additional grape information:

• Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm every day except Tuesday (when we are closed) , we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6,  Sorry, for everyone’s safety, we have suspended evening picking hours this year due to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) mosquito-borne disease threat in Southwest Michigan.
• 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 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 : 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):
  • 45 cents a pound for under 100 pounds, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel = $9
  • Over 100 pounds; 27.5 cents a pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $5.50

***Apple Estimate Chart for 2019:  Updated 10-10- 2019

Variety	Crop Size Estimate	U-Pick Available?   Red means they are ready now for Saturday, Sunday and Columbus Day Monday picking	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change date earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn	good	no	Ready now	no
Cameo	good	yes	Ready now	no
Cortland	fair	All picked	In market now	no
Fuji	good	yes	Ready now	no
Gala	good	all picked	In market now	no
Golden Delicious	good	yes	in market now	no
Golden Supreme	None	————–	——————–	——————
Honey Crisp	fair	no	In market now	no
Ida Red	few*	All picked	Ready now	yes
Jona Mac	good	All picked	In market now	no
JonaGold	gone for the	year
Jonathon	fair	yes — few	Ready now	no
McIntosh	good	All picked	In market now	no
Molly’s Del	gone for the	year
Mutsu	few*	All picked	Ready now	yes
Northern Spy	few	no	in market now	yes
Pink Lady	good	no	25-Oct	no
Red Delicious	good	yes	In marker now	no
Rome	fair	yes	23-Oct	no

Rain, rain go away, come again another day.  We have had close to 7 inches of rain in the past 5 days which is enough for us for a while!!  Wearing boots for U-Pick apples is not just fashionable, its very practical when there is wet grass!

It’s Apple Season!  Here’s what we have in the market for sale now:  

• 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).
• McIntosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.  Come soon, not many left.
• 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.
• 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 and juices really well.  Come soon, not many left.
• 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 have very few of these this year, if you want some please call and order.  if you have already placed and order, we will call you next week for pick up.  
• 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.  Makes a nice apple sauce and many people use for canning pie filling.  We have a bumper crop of these this year!  However, many of them have some russet marks on the skin caused by some of the extremes in the spring weather.   It does not go skin deep, but just doesn’t look very pretty:(  We are bagging these up as “seconds,” and doing a special price on them for $8 a half bushel (normal pricing is $14 a half bushel.  This is a great deal for someone who is going to process a lot of apples or wants to feed animals.

In order to have room for more apples coming in, we are putting the Gala and JonaMac on special,  Buy 2 (1/2) bushel bags and get one free.   Can mix and match, so you are getting 1 and 1/2 bushels for $26.  Can’t use that many apples?  Drop off at a local food bank, take to a sporting event to share, make lots of applesauce and freeze!

• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple with 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.

Apple picking will be available on Saturday and Sunday only this year, during our business hours of 8 until 6.  Please check in at the market first to get directions as you will be driving to the orchard.  We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30, and checked in at the market by 5:15.  Check our website or call us to see which apple varieties will be available which weekends.

This Saturday and Sunday the U-Pick Apples varieties available are Jonathon, Yellow and Red Delicious.  We are also going to allow folks to start “spot picking” some Cameo, Ida Reds and Mutsu.  This means all the apples on the tree are not ready and you should select them carefully.    The trees are full and they are fun to pick!

Apple pricing for the 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: $26 a bushel**, $14 a half-bushel, $8.00 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $6 a half-peck, $3.50 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Wondering when your favorite apple will be ready?  Each week we will publish an apple estimate at the end of this post.***  Most of the dates have moved back, as rainy weather does not ripen apples!

U-PIck visitors to our farm, please be aware that we are located in St. Joseph County, MI where cases of Triple E have occurred.  While we have not seen many mosquitos around lately, we want everyone to be diligent and protected.   Eastern Equine Encephalitis or commonly known as Triple E or sleeping sickness caused the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to urge locals to protect themselves from the bite of infected mosquitoes.  Initially infecting horses with a reported 90 percent fatality rate, people are still warned for they can also be bitten by infected mosquitoes. Though it is a rare cause of potentially fatal brain infections in people, “it has a 33 [percent] fatality rate for humans who become ill,” Lynn Sutfin of the MDHHS said.  Here’s what you can do to take precaution:

• Apply insect repellents that are EPA-registered or contain DEET to exposed skin. Follow the manufacturer’s directions for use.
• Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants when outdoors. It is also important to wear light colored clothes so as not to attract mosquitoes.

Apple Cider update:  We made our third batch of cider for the year, as we add more varieties, the better it gets!  Free samples to try.

White Niagara Grape Update: the white Niagara grapes opened for U-pick on Saturday 9-21 for the season.   We have less than half of a crop of these this year due to the winter freeze, so they may not last long.  For those trying to get huge amounts of white grapes (like 500 pounds or more), we would suggest this is not the year to try to pick them here.  Sorry.

Purple Concord grape update:   The Concord grapes are ready to pick,   just remember we are closed on Tuesday!   There is a good crop Concord grapes, and the longer customers wait, the sweeter/riper they will get.   Concord grapes usually last up until the first frost.  It just depends how many customers come and how many get picked.  Additional information about grape picking can be found below.**

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord.  They are $28 a bushel.

What is on the market now:

• Vegetables:  onions,  regular field tomatoes–red and green, spaghetti squash, winter/hard squash, garlic, shallots, peppers
• Fruit: apples, grapes
• U-pick herbs 
  

  Can’t wait to have this year’s apple dumplings!

• U-Pick flowers

This weekend in the bakery we will have Pumpkin and Pecan pies, yes, it’s fall!   This is also the weekend to pick up apple dumplings if you ordered them.  If you would like anything reserved give us a call at 269-244-5690 and we will be happy to save it for you!

• Cookies:  Cut-out cookies, Frosted Lemon, M&M “Monster”, Chaos, Mudslide, and Salted Caramel
• Pies:   Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Pecan, and Pumpkin.
• Apple Crisp
• Breads: Wheat and Rye Herb, Potato Scallion, and Herb Baguette.  Whole Wheat, Honey Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Italian, Tuscan,  Hamburger and Hotdog Buns
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts, muffins, scones
• Dessert bars: peanut butter mousse, chocolate caramel, lemon burst, chocolate truffle, chocolate and white mousse
• Fall flavors cake donuts: Buttermilk, Apple Cider, and Pumpkin (Available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
• Slushies- 3 flavors; Unpasteurized Apple Cider, White Grape Peach, and Grape blend. 

Look for our “take and bake” pies for you to stock up on in your freezer (for you to indulge in). “Take and bake” pie choices are all large-9″ pies and available flavors in the freezer now.

Photographers – If you are interested in Fall photo opportunities on our farm, please contact Brenda@coreylakeorchards.com.  She will work with you to schedule appointments, provide information on our photo policies and discuss backdrop possibilities in the apple orchard, the pumpkin field and other picturesque spots we have on the farm.

Alcohol offerings:

• Brandies:  Pear, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Peach, and Grappa
• Rye Whiskey
• Wines: Double Cherry and New:  Peach and Honey (already a favorite by those who have tried it)
• Hard Cider flavors: A late summer hard cider is back, Blueberry, and it is delicious! We also have Standard Dry, Standard Sweet,  Bark Bite, Cortabella, Currant/Cacoa,  United Squash Federation, Ginger, Strawberry and Brunch.
• Brandy tours and tasting is available every Saturday from 1 until 3 pm, in the Brandy Barn/Distillery    We offer brandy, wine and some hard cider samples. It’s always an interesting and fun experience.

Mark your calendars, hold the date!  Three Rivers Area Fall Color Tour, Sunday, Oct. 13 from 11 am to 5 pm

Join us for the Fall Color Tour next Sunday!  We will have food, fun, fruit, arts and crafts, music, and other special events during that time.  Corey Lake Orchards is one of 12 stops on the scenic, fun-filled tour to celebrate the beauty of Fall in the Three Rivers area.  Find more about the event here:  https://events.trchamber.com/events/details/fall-color-tour-826

Our market, bakery, up-pick apples, and u-pick grapes are available during our normal business hours of 8 am to 6 pm.  In addition we will have:

• CLO Brandy House (noon to 3 pm)
• CLO Hard Cider Tastings (noon to 3 pm)
• Birds of Prey (1 to 3 pm, weather permitting)
• The Chillbilly’s Band (foot-stomping music from noon to 4 pm)
• Camzie’s Pizza Food Truck
• Hope Foundation Fire Truck
• Face Painting by Constantine High School art students

Visit our many talented and creative vendors.  Now is the time to start your holiday shopping!

• Art by Anna
• Barb’s Bowls
• Bushman Music
• Cindy’s Whimsies
• Clear Lake Studio Works
• Delightful Designs
• Donna Young
• Faith in Flora
• High View Studio
• Jake’s Country Meats
• Laughing Horse Artisan
• Mary Hanlin
• Nature’s Edibles from Ginger Hills Farms
• Pugling Hoard
• Teresa Featherstone
• The Sustainable Hive
• Vicki Latua
• Webster Knife Works

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards appreciates you buying local!  We hope to see you soon!

Reminder:  Corey Lake Orchards is closed every Tuesday.  We will continue to share this notice since it is a major change.  As a small family business, we have begun to realize that to best serve our customers with an exceptional product and experience, we need a down day once per week to regroup, reorganize, and re-energize.

**Additional grape information:

• Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm every day except Tuesday (when we are closed) , we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6,  Sorry, for everyone’s safety, we have suspended evening picking hours this year due to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) mosquito-borne disease threat in Southwest Michigan.
• 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  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 : 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):
  • 45 cents a pound for under 100 pounds, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel = $9
  • Over 100 pounds; 27.5 cents a pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $5.50

***Apple Estimate Chart for 2019:  Updated 10-3- 2019

Variety	Crop Size Estimate	U-Pick Available?   Red means they are ready now for Saturday/Sunday picking	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change date earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn	good	no	8-Oct	no
Cameo	good	yes**	15-Oct	no
Cortland	fair	All picked	In market now	no
Fuji	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Gala	good	all picked	In market now	no
Golden Delicious	good	yes	in market now	no
Golden Supreme	None	————–	——————–	——————
Honey Crisp	fair	no	In market now	no
Ida Red	few*	yes**	10-14	yes
Jona Mac	good	All picked	In market now	no
JonaGold	gone for the	year
Jonathon	fair	yes	Ready now	no
McIntosh	good	All picked	In market now	no
Molly’s Del	gone for the	year
Mutsu	few*	yes**	10-14	yes
Northern Spy	few	no	in market now	yes
Pink Lady	good	no	10-25	no
Red Delicious	good	yes	10-4	no
Rome	fair	yes	23-Oct	no

It’s Apple Season!  Here’s what we have in the market for sale now:  

• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple with a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness
• 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).
• McIntosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.  Come soon, not many left.
• 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 and juices really well.  Come soon, not many left.
• 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 have very few of these this year, if you want some please call and order.  if you have already placed and order, we will call you next week for pick up.  
• 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.  Makes a nice apple sauce and many people use for canning pie filling.  We have a bumper crop of these this year!  However, many of them have some russet marks on the skin caused by some of the extremes in the spring weather.   It does not go skin deep, but just doesn’t look very pretty:(  We are bagging these up as “seconds,” and doing a special price on them for $8 a half bushel (normal pricing is $14 a half bushel.  This is a great deal for someone who is going to process a lot of apples or wants to feed animals.

Apple picking will be available on Saturday and Sunday only this year, during our business hours of 8 until 6.  Please check in at the market first to get directions as you will be driving to the orchard.  We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30, and checked in at the market by 5:15.  Check our website or call us to see which apple varieties will be available which weekends.

This Saturday and Sunday the U-Pick Apples varieties available are limited to  Jonathon and Yellow and Red Delicious until more varieties ripen.  The trees are full and they are fun to pick!

Apple pricing for the 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: $26 a bushel**, $14 a half-bushel, $8.00 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $6 a half-peck, $3.50 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Wondering when your favorite apple will be ready?  Each week we will publish an apple estimate at the end of this post.***

U-PIck visitors to our farm, please be aware that we are located in St. Joseph County, MI where cases of Triple E have occurred.  While we have not seen many mosquitos around lately, we want everyone to be diligent and protected.   Eastern Equine Encephalitis or commonly known as Triple E or sleeping sickness caused the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) to urge locals to protect themselves from the bite of infected mosquitoes.  Initially infecting horses with a reported 90 percent fatality rate, people are still warned for they can also be bitten by infected mosquitoes. Though it is a rare cause of potentially fatal brain infections in people, “it has a 33 [percent] fatality rate for humans who become ill,” Lynn Sutfin of the MDHHS said.  Here’s what you can do to take precaution:

• Apply insect repellents that are EPA-registered or contain DEET to exposed skin. Follow the manufacturer’s directions for use.
• Wear long-sleeved shirts and long pants when outdoors. It is also important to wear light colored clothes so as not to attract mosquitoes.

Apple Cider update:  We made our second cider batch yesterday and it is really nice, we put a lot of Gala in it and you will love the sweetness!

White Niagara Grape Update: the white Niagara grapes opened for U-pick on Saturday 9-21 for the season.   We have less than half of a crop of these this year due to the winter freeze, so they may not last long.  For those trying to get huge amounts of white grapes (like 500 pounds or more), we would suggest this is not the year to try to pick them here.  Sorry.

Purple Concord grape update:   We have one vineyard of purple Concord grapes open that is riper than the other vineyards, for those who are trying to pick both colors at the same time, or for those who can only come this weekend.  We feel the Concord grape peak ripeness will be the week of 9-30 and after, so plan your trip the 9-30 or after,  just remember we are closed on Tuesday!   There is a good crop Concord grapes, and the longer customers wait, the sweeter/riper they will get.   Concord grapes usually last up until the first frost.  It just depends how many customers come and how many get picked.  Additional information about grape picking can be found below.**

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord.  They are $28 a bushel.

What is on the market now:

• Vegetables:  onions,  regular field tomatoes–red and green, spaghetti squash, winter/hard squash, garlic, shallots 
• Fruit: apples
• U-pick herbs 
• U-Pick flowers

This weekend in the bakery  Monday September 30 is the last day to place your order for Apple Dumplings! We will only have them available the weekend of October 4-6,  by order only, and they are sold in packages of 2.  If you would like anything reserved or to order apple dumplings, give us a call at 269-244-5690 and we will be happy to save it for you!

This weekend’s offerings will be:

• Cookies:  Cut-out cookies, Frosted Lemon, M&M “Monster”, Chaos, Mudslide, and Salted Caramel
• Pies:   Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Strawberry Rhubarb, and Pumpkin.
• Apple Crisp
• Breads: Wheat and Rye Herb, Potato Scallion, and Herb Baguette.  Whole Wheat, Honey Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Italian, Tuscan,  Hamburger and Hotdog Buns
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts, muffins, scones
• Dessert bars: peanut butter mousse, chocolate caramel, lemon burst, chocolate truffle, chocolate and white mousse
• Fall flavors cake donuts: Buttermilk, Apple Cider, and Pumpkin (Available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
• Slushies- 3 flavors; Unpasteurized Apple Cider, White Grape Peach, and Grape blend. 

Look for our “take and bake” pies for you to stock up on in your freezer (for you to indulge in). “Take and bake” pie choices are all large-9″ pies and available flavors in the freezer now.

Alcohol offerings:

• Brandies:  Pear, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Peach, and Grappa
• Rye Whiskey
• Wines: Double Cherry and New:  Peach and Honey (already a favorite by those who have tried it)
• Hard Cider flavors: A fall favorite is back:  Preach!  A great blend of pears and peaches! Standard Dry, Standard Sweet,  Bark Bite, Cortabella, Currant/Cacoa,  United Squash Federation, Ginger, Strawberry and Brunch.
• Brandy tours and tasting is available every Saturday from 1 until 3 pm, in the Brandy Barn/Distillery    We offer brandy, wine and some hard cider samples. It’s always an interesting and fun experience.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards appreciates you buying local!  We hope to see you soon!

Reminder:  Corey Lake Orchards is closed every Tuesday.  We will continue to share this notice since it is a major change.  As a small family business, we have begun to realize that to best serve our customers with an exceptional product and experience, we need a down day once per week to regroup, reorganize, and re-energize.

**Additional grape information:

• Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm every day except Tuesday (when we are closed) , we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6,  Sorry, for everyone’s safety, we have suspended evening picking hours this year due to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) mosquito-borne disease threat in Southwest Michigan.
• 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  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 : 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):
  • 45 cents a pound for under 100 pounds, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel = $9
  • Over 100 pounds; 27.5 cents a pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $5.50

***Apple Estimate Chart for 2019:  Updated 9-12-9  2019

Variety	Crop Size Estimate	U-Pick Available?   Red means they are ready now for Saturday/Sunday picking	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change date earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn	good	no	8-Oct	no
Cameo	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Cortland	fair	yes–just a few	in market now	no
Fuji	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Gala	good	all picked	In market now	no
Golden Delicious	good	yes	in market now	no
Golden Supreme	None	————–	——————–	——————
Honey Crisp	fair	no	In market now	no
Ida Red	few*	yes	30-Sep	yes
Jona Mac	good	All picked	In market now	no
JonaGold	good	All picked	In market now	no
Jonathon	fair	yes	23-Sep	no
McIntosh	good	All picked	In market now	no
Molly’s Del	good	All picked	in market now	no
Mutsu	few*	yes	30-Sep	yes
Northern Spy	few	no	in market now
Pink Lady	good	no	10-25	no
Red Delicious	good	yes	30-Sep	no
Rome	fair	yes	23-Oct	no

Summer is back again, but here at the orchard, we’re definitely all things fall!  Each week new apple varieties are coming in, along with more fall ornamentals.  We finally have pumpkins too!  So much color and fun things to look at.  Don’t miss seeing the giant pumpkins in front of the onion barn!

 

It’s Apple Season!  Here’s what we have in the market for sale now:  

• Mollie’s Delicious is a large, sweet eating apple. (not a cooking apple)  There are only a few bags left!
• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple with a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness
• 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.  There are only a few more bags of these left!
• McIntosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.
• 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 and juices really well.

Apple picking will be available on Saturday and Sunday only this year, during our business hours of 8 until 6.  Please check in at the market first to get directions as you will be driving to the orchard.  We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30, and checked in at the market by 5:15.  Check our website or call us to see which apple varieties will be available which weekends.

This Saturday and Sunday the U-Pick Apples varieties available are limited to Gala, Jonathon, Cortland, and Yellow and Red Delicious until more varieties ripen.  The trees are full and they are fun to pick!  The Yellow and Red delicious are not all ripe yet, so we’d ask that you carefully “spot pick” only the ones that are the ripest.  Our orchard guides can help you with this.  If you are trying to pick a lot of Red or Yellow Delicious, you should wait another week.

Apple pricing for the 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: $26 a bushel**, $14 a half-bushel, $8.00 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $6 a half-peck, $3.50 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Wondering when your favorite apple will be ready?  Each week we will publish an apple estimate at the end of this post.***

Apple Cider update:  We made our first cider today, and will jug it Friday.  We should have it available after 10 am!

White Niagara Grape Update: We are going to open the white Niagara grapes for U-pick on Saturday 9-21 for the season. The white Niagara are typically one week ahead of the purple Concord; sugar tests on these done today (16.9 brix) indicate they are plenty sweet and ready.  We have less than half of a crop of these this year due to the winter freeze, so they may not last long.  For those trying to get huge amounts of white grapes (like 500 pounds or more), we would suggest this is not the year to try to pick them here.  Sorry.

Purple Concord grape update:  We are going to open up one vineyard of purple Concord grapes this weekend that is riper than the other vineyards, for those who are trying to pick both colors at the same time, or for those who can only come this weekend.  The Concord grapes measured 13.4 brix today, and they need to be at least 15 brix or more for optimal sweetness.  We feel the Concord grape peak ripeness will be the week of 9-30 and after.  We encourage everyone to wait if they can.  There is a good crop Concord grapes, and the longer customers wait, the sweeter/riper they will get.   Additional information about grape picking can be found below.**

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord.  They are $28 a bushel.

What is on the market now:

• Vegetables:  sweet corn,  fresh dug onions, eggplant, peppers, cherry/grape tomatoes, regular field tomatoes–red and green, spaghetti squash, winter/hard squash, garlic, shallots 
• Fruit: apples
• U-pick herbs 
• U-Pick flowers
• Dried sunflower heads–to feed your feathered friends

This weekend in the bakery  We are making a new pie which will be available this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday; Turtle Cheesecake Pie! This delicious pie is cheesecake filling in our made from scratch crust, then it is topped with pecans, caramel, chocolate, and whipped cream! Yum! We are still taking orders for Apple Dumplings! We will only have them available the weekend of October 4-6,  and by order only, and they are sold in packages of 2.  If you would like anything reserved or to order apple dumplings, give us a call at 269-244-5690 and we will be happy to save it for you!

This weekend’s offerings will be:

• Cookies:  Cut-out cookies, Frosted Lemon, M&M “Monster”, Chaos, Mudslide, and Salted Caramel
• Pies:   Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Strawberry Rhubarb, and Turtle Cheesecake (available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday).
• Apple Crisp
• Breads: Wheat and Rye Herb, Potato Scallion, and Herb Baguette.  Whole Wheat, Honey Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Italian, Tuscan,  Hamburger and Hotdog Buns
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts, muffins, scones
• Dessert bars: peanut butter mousse, chocolate caramel, lemon burst, chocolate truffle, chocolate and white mousse
• Fall flavors cake donuts: Buttermilk, Apple Cider, and Pumpkin (Available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
• Slushies- 3 flavors; Unpasteurized Apple Cider, White Grape Peach, and Grape blend. 

Look for our “take and bake” pies for you to stock up on in your freezer (for you to indulge in). “Take and bake” pie choices are all large-9″ pies and available flavors in the freezer now.

Alcohol offerings:

• Brandies:  Pear, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Peach, and Grappa
• Rye Whiskey
• Wines: Double Cherry and New:  Peach and Honey (already a favorite by those who have tried it)
• Hard Cider flavors: A fall favorite is back:  Preach!  A great blend of pears and peaches! Standard Dry, Standard Sweet,  Bark Bite, Cortabella, Currant/Cacoa,  United Squash Federation, Ginger, Strawberry and Brunch.
• Brandy tours and tasting is available every Saturday from 1 until 3 pm, in the Brandy Barn/Distillery    We offer brandy, wine and some hard cider samples. It’s always an interesting and fun experience.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards appreciates you buying local!  We hope to see you soon!

Reminder:  Corey Lake Orchards is closed every Tuesday.  We will continue to share this notice since it is a major change.  As a small family business, we have begun to realize that to best serve our customers with an exceptional product and experience, we need a down day once per week to regroup, reorganize, and re-energize.

**Additional grape information:

• Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm every day except Tuesday (when we are closed) , we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6,  Sorry, for everyone’s safety, we have suspended evening picking hours this year due to the Eastern Equine Encephalitis (EEE) mosquito-borne disease threat in Southwest Michigan.
• 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  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 : 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):
  • 45 cents a pound for under 100 pounds, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel = $9
  • Over 100 pounds; 27.5 cents a pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $5.50

***Apple Estimate Chart for 2019:  Updated 9-12-9  2019

Variety	Crop Size Estimate	U-Pick Available?   Red means they are ready now for Saturday/Sunday picking	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change date earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn	good	no	8-Oct	no
Cameo	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Cortland	fair	yes	in market now	no
Fuji	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Gala	good	yes	In market now	no
Golden Delicious	good	yes* (spot pick)	23-Sep	no
Golden Supreme	None	————–	——————–	——————
Honey Crisp	fair	no	In market now	no
Ida Red	few*	yes	30-Sep	yes
Jona Mac	good	All picked	In market now	no
JonaGold	good	All picked	In market now	no
Jonathon	fair	yes	23-Sep	no
McIntosh	good	All picked	In market now	no
Molly’s Del	good	All picked	in market now	no
Mutsu	few*	yes	30-Sep	yes
Northern Spy	few	no	30-Sep	yes
Pink Lady	good	no	23-Oct	no
Red Delicious	good	yes* (spot pick)	30-Sep	no
Rome	fair	yes	23-Oct	no

So, summer has returned for a few days, but we are moving forward with fall and hope the weather will soon match up.  More apples are in at the market, fall ornamentals of mums, gourds, colored corn, mini-pumpkins have added color, plus we have continued decorating around the old white truck, the fire truck and the old tractors we have out and about.

It’s Apple Season!  Here’s what we have in the market for sale now:  

• Mollie’s Delicious is a large, sweet eating apple. (not a cooking apple)
• Gala is a great eating and cooking apple. It has a crisp snappy bite over a mellow sweetness
• 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
• McIntosh: This is a soft, white fleshed apple, very popular for baking and applesauce.
• Earli-Blaze: This is a great cooking or eating apple, we use it in our own bakery!

This weekend we will have U-Pick Apples  again on Saturday and Sunday.   The varieties available now are limited to Gala and Jon-A-Mac. until more varieties ripen.  The trees are full and they are fun to pick! We know that many of you look forward to the annual  “apple picking experience” with your family followed by a “U-pick donut” experience!

Apple pricing for the 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: $26 a bushel**, $14 a half-bushel, $8.00 a peck (1/4 of a bushel), $6 a half-peck, $3.50 a 1/4 peck and $1.00 a pound. **When we have bushels available.

Apple picking will be available on Saturday and Sunday only this year, during our business hours of 8 until 6.  Please check in at the market first to get directions and you will be driving to the orchard.   We need everyone checked out by 6, so you must be in the apple orchard by 5:30, and checked in at the market by 5:15.  Check our website or call us to see which apple varieties will be available which weekends.

Wondering when your favorite apple will be ready?  Each week we will publish an apple estimate at the end of this post.***

Apple Cider update:  We are gearing up to make sweet cider, just waiting for a few more apple varieties so we have a nice mix to be sweet.  Give us a week or so, thanks.

Grape Update: You can smell the grapes and they are turning color and softening.  We have a decent  crop of the purple Concord, but we lost about 40% of our white Niagara grapes to the winter freeze, so we will have fewer of those.  Our best guess now is the white grapes could be ready the week of 9-16 and the purple grapes the week of 9-30. But it depends on the weather.  Before we open, we will want them to be at their full ripeness and sugar content.  Please check back with us later for an update.  Additional information about grape picking can be found below.**

Picked grapes: We are taking orders for bushels of picked grapes both white Niagara and purple Concord.  They are $28 a bushel.

What is on the market now:

• Vegetables:  sweet corn,  fresh dug onions, brussel sprouts, eggplant, peppers, cherry/grape tomatoes, regular field tomatoes–red and green, spaghetti squash, winter/hard squash, garlic, shallots 
• Fruit: apples, seeded watermelon
• U-pick herbs 
• U-Pick flowers
• Dried sunflower heads–to feed your feathered friends

Tomato update:  We are still working through the many orders for canning tomatoes, there has been an increased demand for them due to other farms losing theirs in hail storms.  We will try our best to fill orders, but our tomato fields are winding down to the end.  None of us want tomatoes to be gone for the year yet, that’s for sure.

Bakery update:  We are starting to take orders for Apple Dumplings! These are made with a whole Cortland apple which is peeled, cored, and then wrapped in our made from scratch pie dough. They are then filled with cinnamon sugar and have our special family recipe sauce poured over them! We will only have them available the weekend of October 4-6,  by order only.  They are sold in packages of 2.  If you would like anything reserved or to order apple dumplings, give us a call at 269-244-5690 and we will be happy to save it for you!

This weekend’s offerings will be:

• Cookies:  Cut-out cookies, Frosted Lemon, M&M “Monster”, Chaos, Mudslide, and Salted Caramel
• Pies:   Apple, Blueberry, Cherry, Cherry Berry (Cherries, blueberries, and dried cranberries) and Strawberry Rhubarb.
• Apple Crisp
• Breads: Wheat and Rye Herb, Potato Scallion, and Herb Baguette.  Whole Wheat, Honey Oatmeal, Cinnamon, Italian, Tuscan,  Hamburger and Hotdog Buns
• Cinnamon Rolls, Sticky Buns, Yeast Donuts, muffins, scones
• Dessert bars: peanut butter mousse, chocolate caramel, lemon burst, chocolate truffle, chocolate and white mousse
• Fall flavors cake donuts: Buttermilk, Apple Cider, and Pumpkin (Available Friday, Saturday, and Sunday)
• Slushies- 3 flavors; Unpasteurized Apple Cider, White Grape Peach, and Grape blend. 

Look for our “take and bake” pies for you to stock up on in your freezer (for you to indulge in). “Take and bake” pie choices are all large-9″ pies and available flavors in the freezer now.

Also in the bakery you can find:

• Local Gluten free items
• Local Plainwell Ice cream to scoop out with pie and apple crisp
• Jake’s Country Meats,  pork products
• Welch’s juice products, from Lawton
• Local chocolates

Alcohol offerings:

• Brandies:  Pear, Grape, Apple, Cherry, Peach, and Grappa
• Rye Whiskey
• Wines: Double Cherry and New:  Peach and Honey (already a favorite by those who have tried it)
• Hard Cider flavors: A fall favorite is back:  Preach!  A great blend of pears and peaches! Standard Dry, Standard Sweet,  Bark Bite, Cortabella, Currant/Cacoa,  United Squash Federation, Ginger, Strawberry and Brunch.
• Brandy tours and tasting is available every Saturday from 1 until 3 pm, in the Brandy Barn/Distillery    We offer brandy, wine and some hard cider samples. It’s always an interesting and fun experience.

Everyone at Corey Lake Orchards appreciates you buying local!  We hope to see you soon!

Reminder:  Corey Lake Orchards is closed every Tuesday.  We will continue to share this notice since it is a major change.  As a small family business, we have begun to realize that to best serve our customers with an exceptional product and experience, we need a down day once per week to regroup, reorganize, and re-energize.

**Additional grape information:

• Picking hours: Our picking hours are 8 am to 6 pm every day except Tuesday (when we are closed) , we ask that you be finished and checked out by 6, except for Wednesdays,  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  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 : 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):
  • 45 cents a pound for under 100 pounds, 1 five-gallon bucket or a ½ bushel = $9
  • Over 100 pounds; 27.5 cents a pound, 1 five-gallon bucket or ½ bushel = $5.50

***Apple Estimate Chart for 2019:  Updated 9-12-9  2019

Variety	Crop Size Estimate	U-Pick Available?   Red means they are ready now for Saturday/Sunday picking	Approximate Week Ready–Please check back as weather will can change date earlier or later	Should order in advance
Braeburn	good	no	8-Oct	no
Cameo	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Cortland	fair	yes	15-Sep	no
Fuji	good	yes	15-Oct	no
Gala	good	yes	In market now	no
Golden Delicious	good	yes	30-Sep	no
Golden Supreme	None	————–	——————–	——————
Honey Crisp	fair	no	In market now	no
Ida Red	few*	yes	30-Sep	yes
Jona Mac	good	yes	In market now	no
JonaGold	good	no	In market now	no
Jonathon	fair	yes	30-Sep	no
McIntosh	good	no	In market now	no
Molly’s Del	good	All picked	7-Sep	no
Mutsu	few*	yes	30-Sep	yes
Northern Spy	few	no	30-Sep	yes
Pink Lady	good	no	23-Oct	no
Red Delicious	good	yes	30-Sep	no
Rome	fair	yes	23-Oct	no