Tree Fruits

Nectarines
Name is derived from the Greek "nekter," meaning sweet liquid. A nectarine is a fruit all its own, not a cross between a peach and a plum, or a fuzzless peach. As with peaches nectarines may be yellow or white-fleshed and clingstone or freestone. A yellow nectarine's flavor is similar, but richer than a peach. Our varities include..........

Easternglo - Medium to large yellow freestone. Fruit is firm, nearly 100% red, with a smooth finish.
Summer Beaut - Exceptional yellow fleshed freestone. This early season variety has medium size.             Redgold - A  high quality late yellow nectarine. Fruit is freestone, with excellent color and flavor.
Fantasia - Excellent quality, yellow fleshed, free-stone nectarine. Fruit is large with a smooth glossy finish.
Arctic Star - Medium size clingstone with a sweet sub-acid flavor. Flesh is white with some red.
Arctic Sweet - One of the best-flavored white nectarines. Fruit is medium size, firm and highly colored.
Arctic Jay - Mid season white variety. The flesh is very firm and has a sub-acid sweet flavor.
Arctic Pride - White flesh clingstone nectarine. Moderate firmness and mid-sweet flavor.

Pears
We currently only grow the standards - Bartlett and Bosc. Bartlett is a good all-purpose pear that is sweet and juicy with a smooth texture. The green skin turns yellow when ripe. Great for canning or eating fresh. Bosc is a large russeted pear with white flesh and a rich, delicious flavor. A new pear orchard is in the planning stages for planting in 2010. We'll have some new varieties available soon thereafter!!!

Japanese Plums
A sweet tart fruit. Japanese Plums are usually eaten fresh. Our favorite varieties include..........
Methley - A small early plum with purple red skin, and sweet flesh that is very juicy.
Shiro - A sweet, juicy yellow plum. Fruits are round, clingstone, and medium to large in size.
Santa Rosa - A large, attractive, dark reddish purple plum with red flesh. The fruit is quite firm.
Ruby Queen - With an outstanding flavor, the fruit has reddish-black skin with a firm, red flesh.
Satsuma - A distinctive, dark red plum with red flesh. Fruit is oval shaped and very sweet.
Friar - Large oval plum, black with light amber flesh. Freestone with a small pit. Sweet and juicy.
Fortune - Late season plum. Fruit is large, reddish-purple and very firm with yellow flesh. Our favorite!

European Plums
European Plums (also known as Italian or Blue Plums) are mainly used for cooking and making prunes, though many people enjoy eating them fresh. We grow several varities:
Castleton Early - Early maturing variety with slightly ovate blue fruit.
Green Gage - Considered to be the ideal dessert plum in Europe. Green fruit with red mottling.
Stanley - Fruit is large, with dark blue skin and flesh that is greenish-yellow, juicy and fine grained.
Long John - Dark blue, very large fruit of high quality.
Vision - Late harvest plum with oblong shape, developed in Ontario.

Apricots
In Latin, the apricot's name means "precious," a label earned because it ripens earlier than other summer fruits. China deserves the credit for discovering and cultivating this richly sweet fruit over 4000 years ago. Hundreds of centuries later, the Spanish missionaries carried apricots to North America. A relative of the peach, the apricot is smaller and has a smooth, oval pit that falls out easily when the fruit is halved. The varieties we grow include........
Early Blush - A new early variety. Medium size with orange-red blush over a golden background.            Goldrich - Large oval fruit with bright, shiny orange color. Flesh is firm, fine textured and deep orange.
Harogem - Medium fruit with bright red blush over orange skin. Flesh is firm, and freestone.
Hargrande - Very large fruit, yellow-orange in color. Flesh is firm, orange and freestone.

Asian Pears
Also called Apple Pears. Originally grown in Japan, they're sweet, crunchy to the bite and amazingly juicy. We grow several varieties.....
Shinseiki - Early season variety with yellow finish and little russet. The fruit is crisp and juicy.
Hosui - Ripening in late August, the fruit is mildly flavored, sweet and juicy with solid russeted skin.
Yoinashi - Fruit is large, orange-brown with a russeted finish and crisp, richly aromatic, firm flesh.
Olympic - Round, large, heavily russeted brown pear has a crisp, juicy sweet taste. Stores well.

Sweet Cherries
We grow several varities of sweet cherries to extend our season, including....
Summit - An early variety with large, heart-shaped cherry fruit with good flavor.
Ulster - Dark red, large, firm-fleshed, sweet fruit ripening mid-season.
Lapins - Developed in British Colombia, this unique dark red cherry is large in size, and has good flavor.
Black Gold - A dark red cherry with firm fruit and good size.
Hedelfingen - A large, firm-fleshed, high quality late dark red cherry.
Hudson - The latest of the good dark, black sweeet cherries.
Emperor Francis - A large, high quality yellow cherry with red blush.
Schmidt Biggareau - A dark red sweet cherry ripening in the mid season.
Regina - A late ripening, dark red sweet cherry. The fruit is very firm and large.
Rainier - Large yellow fruit with red blush and creamy yellow flesh. Considered "cream of the crop".

Tart Cherries
Also known as Sour Cherries or Pie Cherries. These cherries are quite tart (hence the name) and are best known as the key ingredient in desserts such as cherry pie or cherries jubilee. They are also delicious in main courses, salads, jams and jellies, dried and beverages. Tart cherries are seldom sold fresh in your local grocery store. We grow Balaton (a Hungarian cultivar introduced in 1984 with very firm dark red fruit, red juicy flesh, and slighly sweeter flavor than the standard) and the traditional Montmorency (bright red fruit, medium in size, with a clear, juicy flesh).