We will be open as planned tomorrow Tuesday July 10.  We saw a lot of good folks on Sunday.  Still early in the season so picking conditions are moderate.

To help customers plan (and ourselves as well), we are going to a standard weekly picking schedule to be open 9:00 to 5:30 Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday if berry supply permits.  This will be our default schedule – if weather or berry supply requires a change, we will do so.

I will continue to post frequently with picking conditions – as always best picking is early in the day.

Look forward to seeing you

The hot weather has helped ripen  the raspberries, so we will open Sunday July 8 – at 9:00 AM.  As always, picking will be best early in the day.

More ripe berries in the lower field than in the upper field.  Plan is to be open Sunday, closed Monday and back open Tuesday July 10.  Open days for the rest of the week will depend on how many customers come and how fast more berries ripen.

Come help us start the season.

Lots of raspberries – but they are still green.  Not clear how fast they will ripen with the hot weather – we are running our irrigation system day and night.   Best guess is that berries will not be ripe before Tuesday July 10 .

Apples in the photo are Honeycrisp – now over 1 inch in diameter.

Very light cherry crop – will ripen a few days after the first raspberries.

I will post update in a few days.

We had very good pollination for both the apples and the raspberries – cherry crop is very light.

Many of the apples are now 3/4 of an inch in diameter or more – the smaller ones will drop off in the June drop.

Raspberries will be ripe in July 7 to 11’th range – we will know more first week in July.

Put us on your July schedule – raspberry season only lasts three weeks.

Big changes over the last two  weeks – we are now at full bloom.  Yesterday and the day before were warm and sunny and the bees were out in force – a large number of small native pollinators and lots of  bumble bees.  Lots of fruit buds this year and no frost in the forecast.

Looks like more good weather next week – the rain this weekend is actually needed.  Raspberries are growing well but not yet in bloom.

Look for the bumble bee.