The Orchard
Western New York provides an environment conducive to growing many crops. Tempered by the waters of Lake Ontario, our land is ideal for growing apples.
In day’s past, orchard layouts looked like patchwork quilts with trees dotted neatly in square patterns across the ground. Today, trees are trellised in straight lines, allowing for increased tree density and upward trimming.
Harvest
Apple harvest begins late summer with our Premier Honeycrisp variety and ends late October with the Fuji variety. We rely on the contributions of our year-round staff as well as farm family from Mexico and Jamaica to care for our trees and land.
Types of Apples
We grow a variety of apples to please the palettes, from more traditional varieties to the most trending.
Empire, Fuji, Gala, Honey Crisp (including Premier Honey Crisp), Macintosh (including Acey Mac and Marshall Mac), Red Delicious, SweeTango.
While we don’t sell our apples directly via a road side stand, market or u-pick, our apples can be found on the shelves of your local grocer. Find them at Aldi, Walmart, HEB. Find them in in luxury gift boxes, like Harry and David.
The Crops
Taking care of the soil means rotating our crops from year to year and giving back to Mother Earth by feeding her with nutritionally vibrant cover crops.
The blueprint of what we plant from season to season remains pretty similar with a mixture of acreage of field corn, soybeans and wheat, while rotating in powerhouse cover crops, like turnips, radish, oats, clover and triticale during the off seasons.
