Salmon is in

What do we do while waiting for peaches? We've been weeding, and mowing and getting packages from Alaska. What? Yes, the smoked salmon has arrived from alaska and boy are we excited!! I know lots of people have been waiting for our shipment. See picture below...

We expect to pick some Peaches for Sat. and that should be the very beginning of 8 weeks of peach season.

Now what?

The farm stand is closed for the moment. We are picking the black raspberries, but they will all go into jam. I've decided we need more sour cherries. Gary will order the trees this week and we'll plant them this fall or next spring. Many people wanted sour cherries for their pies or to freeze- who would have thought that would be a hot item? I definately don't want to plant more sweet cherries, what a bother they are. I think we could do PYO pie cherries right after strawberries and everyone would be happy. They hardly have any bird damage and the rain only squished them a little. More to follow on that...

I once again tied up the blackberries and black raspberry bushes, they are growing like crazy! Obviously the rain is good for something. The early peaches are starting to color up and Gary thinks 10 days to 2 weeks, which is what I put on the sign out front. So we're good.

Have a happy 4th of July, we're planning to listen to the Riverside Symphonia at Tinicum. It's been a while since we were there but it's always amazing.

Cherries, will they survive the weather?

Weather, birds who would have thought it was such a pain to grow cherries? The earlier sweet cherries exploded from the rain. But we had a couple sunny days to sweeten the rest of the crop and ripen it. So yesterday Sam, Hillary and Casey picked about 100 quarts of cherries. Whooee!

We'll probably try to be open friday or saturday to sell them.

The sour cherry crop looks like just enough to make a couple batches of jam which would be great for the holidays. Of course, Gary wants to make sure he gets a couple pies, and the pie lady wants some as well so she can make some sour cherry pies for the market. If you didn't get any last year, you are missing something special!

The crew is working on thinning out the red raspberry plants in the tunnels. It could be a nice late August - September crop this year.

Gary and Mike H. were working in the orchard yesterday. The baby honey crisp trees needed to be tied to their stakes. They have a nice crop, also!

Hale loves strawberry season...

Due to the heavy rains we are done strawberries. So sad. We've picked a few sweet cherries and are waiting for the sour cherries to ripen. I can't wait to make sour cherry jam again, it was a big hit last year. Next we'll try to finish the peach thinning, and get the farm ready for peach harvest. It looks like a lot of fruit on the trees this year!

Still Picking in spite of the rain.

Wow. We didn't start the ark, but we should have... luckily there's still lots of ripe fruit. We'll be open on Sunday 9-5 for PYO and also have some already picked in the store. Wear your rain boots and be ready to eat fruit!

Strawberries!

Picking is going well, in spite of the rain. 2 days of sunshine this weekend really brought the people and the berries out in full force. We expect more berries this week and will plan to be open Tue and Thur eve until 7:30 in addition to the 9-5 hours every day. Don't wait to get your taste.

We're Open!

Saving our seeds. Harvesting Pumpkin Guts...

Our favorite chore.
Strawberry picking is going well in spite of the rain showers. We expect to be open all weekend 9-5 and next week we'll start the Tue/ Thur eve. hours until 7:30.