Heirloom Zoo DONE
It’s not a bumper year in our madly mixed heirloom orchard, downhill in “Two Below the Barn.” It opened Saturday 10/13, our best bet on the best time for the best number of varieties to be enjoyable and pickable. Since then there was steady picking even in bum weather. We didn’t hear complaints, so thanks for that!
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OLDER POSTS
AHEM! We know many of you look forward to this orchard’s opening and plan for it. That’s delightful, except for the very few groups who over-plan, organizing with walkie-talkies and such to get the biggest hauls of their favorite varieties.
We can’t stop that kind of behavior. But we want it clear that we open this unique orchard hoping for the greatest number of people to explore and pick the greatest diversity of apples. So we really hope the get-em-all strategists who have targeted certain varieties in the past will just – stop that.
Oh and BTW, the occasional visitors we’ve already seen tiptoeing down around the barn to sneak some premature picking – we’ve politely assumed they were lost and gently sent them back up … ahem. CLICK for variety chart

Grafting in trial orchard, 30+ years ago