our orchard blog

A new year has started here at the orchard and if  you are a Peaceful Belly or Val's Veggie CSA member it's time to sign up for your fruit shares.  You sign up here. 

Your support by buying fruit shares is very important to our spring farm budget.  This is the time of year when a large part of our expenses occur, pruning, replanting, fertilizer, frost protection, thinning and more.

We've started the pruning and will be hitting it hard now. We have one of our main guys, Hans,  helping out with this.  The weather has been what it is, not much in the way of moisture and not too cold. Almost feels like spring now that the Robins and Red Wing Black birds are back filling the orchard with song.

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Winter has arrived in the orchard.  It has been a wonderful season, thank you all for you support.  All the fruit has been harvested and passed on to our customers.  The trees leaves are taking on the colors of fall and starting to drop to the orchard floor where they will brake down and become nutriments for the trees. The hills around the orchard have snow on them now  and the nights are cold.  Time for the trees and farmers to rest.  

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Fall is here, what a summer it has been, slow start but it all caught up in the end.  It's hard to believe the summer is over.  Thank you Val's Veggies CSA members for your support and thank you Peaceful Belly CSA members for your support.  Peaceful Belly's last fruit share delivery will be at the Peaceful Belly Harvest party at the farm on 10/9 so be sure to be there to get it.   Get details on the party here .  Val's Veggies is also having a party, they have a corn maze and pumpkin patch.  Get the maze and patch details here.

At the orchard we are still picking apples and Asian pears the fruit stand is still open and we can be found at the Baker City Farmers Market on Wednesday and at the La Grande Farmers Market on Saturdays.  We hope to be pressing cider later this week.

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The free stone peaches are on! We are picking lots of them and they are good. There is a lot of interest in canning this year, folks seem to be putting up as much good food as they can.  So get your orders in early. The pears will be starting soon.........

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Our friends at Peaceful Belly are taking the week of the 8th off so there will not be a veggie or fruit share delivery that week.  Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause. You will still be getting your 10 weeks of fruit shares, 4 in August, 4 in September and 2 in October with the last one to be picked up at the Peaceful Belly Harvest Party on Oct 9. 

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