
...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.