Poverty Lane Orchards
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Snow Saved Apples from Frost, November 2011
Lookin’ trendy in the bins. When the weather service starts predicting overnight lows around 20-25 degrees F, harvest gets crazy. A few hours at around 22 degrees will destroy the cell walls within an apple. Most years, not much of the crop still hangs in the open air when hard-freeze scares begin. But in late [...]
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Cider Tree Pruning at Poverty Lane Orchards
Sawyer Broadley, our talented, helpful and patient video guy, recently finished work on a new Poverty Lane pruning video. I like the contrast between the steamy raspberry picking weather and the wintry orchard scenes. Take a look at it if you’re feeling a bit hot today! -Corrie
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The Good Blizzard
The good blizzard lands where it’s appreciated, for cleaning up the yard… force-parking the fleet… showing off the new paint job that holds up the buildings… erasing the bare print where the retail tent stood… laying down gorgeous blue shadows… but not shutting down the last Growler Day of 2010. P.S. For all of you [...]
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Pick-Your-Own 2010 (Seek Your Own?) is so much fun!
Sounds kind of obvious perhaps but the iffiness of Pick-Your-Own this year has reminded us of how much we love it. The Big 2010 Apple Shortage originally caused us to decide against offering PYO at the start of the season. Then after two weeks in the retail tent with no pick-your-own we opened up Big [...]
