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...is nestled in the rolling hills of Central Ohio. We have approximately 6000 trees growing on 38 acres of beautiful countryside. We recently planted an additional 12 acres of new peach trees and 400 more apple trees. Please visit our NEW ORCHARD page for beautiful and educational photos. You can also visit our produce pages for more information about our Apples, Peaches or Grapes.

Our orchard produces 60 different varieties of apples, peaches and grapes along with blazing pumpkins and delicious sweet corn. You are welcome to take a virtual tour of our orchard and witness how she produces her bounty. We hope you enjoy them.

Our peach orchards are on a clay soil which has good moisture holding capacity. Trees are trained to an open vase also called open center. This lets sunlight into the tree so it can produce sweet, aromatic, and juicy fruit. When the fruitlets are the size of golf balls, they are thinned out, leaving the remaining peaches 6 to 8 inches apart. This allows the fruit to grow larger. Two to three weeks before harvest, water sprouts are pruned out for a final dose of sunlight. At harvest, we spot pick just the ripe ones and sell them the same day. They are never put into cold storage. Our growing season for apples lasts from early summer to late fall.

 


 

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