Week 5 of Apple Picking Season

Italian Prunes, picking starts Saturday Sept 14th

Fall Hours 

Monday - Thursday  10 - 6

Friday 10-9 store and night maze open till 9 all through Sept & Oct

Fall Fest every Saturday 10 - 6

Fall Fest every Sunday 11-6

Fall Fest Labor day and Columbus day, 10-6

U-pick Blueberries, Raspberries and Apples 

hours the same as the store, start at the store for all crops

 

What's up at Abbott Farms?

Kiddie Bag, can hold up to 3 lbs, $3.00
Family Bag, can hold up to 10 lbs, $11
Baker Bag, can hold up to 23 lbs, $19
So buy a bag and fill it.  It's still cheaper than in the store.
Parking is always Free

Apple Notes 

Apple season is on time this year.   Varieties for upick are usually available only 2 weekends so don't miss your favorite.   

Information on some of the Apple Varieties at Abbott's 

Apples are more plentiful this year.   The heavy fruit set causes size to be down but numbers are way up as the trees try and compensate for last years light crop.

 

U-pick Apple Varieties available now, 

in picking week 5.

20oz Pippen, in the store Saturday, will not be upicked

HoneyCrisp, in the store Saturday, u-pick next week

Mac, this is the best weekend for mac lovers.

Gala, small this yr but perfect lunchbox size for a healthy sweet snack.

Ginger-Gold, will be all done this weekend

 

We don't know much about it, Its huge, hard, tart, great for pies and baking!

 

HoneyCrisp in the store Saturday, u-pick next week

Note the apple half on top is very green and not ripe, ignore the red in the bottom half and look at the green, its just starting to turn yellow and is just ripe enough to pick.  In the store Saturday, upick latter next week.  Most are still too green (less than full flavour) right now.

 

McIntosh

I am getting this information from a few published sources, including Wikipedia.  It is not my original prose.  Every McIntosh apple has a direct lineage to a single tree discovered in 1796 by John McIntosh on his farm in Dundela, near Morrisburg,  Ontario,  Canada.  He discovered the tree as one of 20 apple seedlings while clearing the farm, which he had just purchased.  He transplanted the seedlings, cultivated them, and only one of them was still alive by 1830.  The surviving apple tree lived until 1909. The oldest surviving (graft from the original tree) descendant died on July 25, 2011.   The Snow Apple, also known as the Fameuse, is believed to be a parent of the McIntosh. Offspring of the Mac include, among many others, the firmer Macoun (a Jersey Black cross), the Spartan (recorded as a Newtown Pippin cross), the Cortland, the Empire, the Jonamac, the Jersey Mac and possibly the Paula Red.  William Tyrrell Macoun of the Central Experimental Farm in Ottawa is credited with popularizing this variety of apple in Canada.  There are more than 10 types (sports) of McIntosh grown and sold today as Macs, many of them patented.  We have 2, Worcester and Linda.  Linda matures 4 days latter than Worcester.

 

Gala

My favorite, it was "born" the same year as I, 1965, but half a world away in New Zealand.   The Gala is a cross between Kidd's Orange Red & Golden Delicious.  Donald W. McKenzie, an employee of Stark Bros Nursery, obtained a US plant patent for the cultivar on October 15, 1974.  Since then more than twenty sports have been patented.   Most of the newer selections are for more of a red color.   Personally, I say leave it alone, after all it's half a Kids Orange so it should be orange!    It tends to be smaller in size and has a sweet, creamy, yellow flesh.  It is great eaten fresh and is excellent for many culinary uses.  My personal favorite use is in Apple Crisp.  Gala does not cook soft like most others.  It is still relatively firm after cooking so the Crisp still has some body to it.  After all it is a Crisp!

 

 Blueberries

The last variety is picking now!

Festival Food

Are you hungry?  Our Fall Fest means Food!   People have been asking what food we have available, so here is a menu.  Try some of our signature food items and flood the senses.  Food is in the same building as the Cider Mill.  There is inside seating in the Cider Mill too.

 

Hamburger made with our very own beef, +$.25 for cheese   $3.50

Hot Dog   Hoffman's of course                                                      $2.25

Maple BBQ Beef  our own, slow cooked beef, with Merle's Maple BBQ sauce.  Beef is what I like for my dinner, and lunch, and...          $3.75

Curly Fries   our own potatoes of course                                    $2.75

Salt Potatoes  my favorite                                                             $2.00

SweetCorn   we will have our own sweet corn 'till frost.             $1.00

Apple Fritters                                                                                  $3.00

Apple Cider Doughnuts  look in the window by the cider mill and watch them being made.                                                                             $  .85

 

Drinks include 

Cider Sipper  a reuseable apple shaped sipper                       $1.50

Cider 16oz cup,                                                                              $2.00

Hot Spiced Cider                                                                          $1.50

Coffee                                                                                              $1.50

Pepsi Soda Products                                                                     $1.83

Bottled water                                                                                  $1.25

Most of these items you can get in the store and take home for yourself. Well, after writing that out, I'm sure hungry now!

 

Its back in stock, take some home!

Bridge 

The Cold Springs bridge between us and John Glenn Blvd. is open again; it is only one lane, but going two ways!  

In Season

Fall Red Raspberries

Apples in the store Sansa, Zestar, Paula-Red, Ginger-Gold, Gala, Mac

HoneyCrisp and 20 ounce in the store Saturday

Cider  the apple variety selection is improving and so is the taste, we expect to have cider ready to flavor next week

Mums are here  

Fall Fest

Sweet corn,  our own fresh picked till frost

Blueberries

Strawberries,  day neutral

Beef; our pasture raised beef is in the freezer case

Birthday parties 

Fall tour scheduling 

 

See the pictures I just posted to get an idea how plentiful the picking is right now.   Abbott Farms NY  See more about what we have been doing and ask us questions on Facebook.  We will be posting special events, hours, upcoming products, crop and u-pick schedules, and even some Facebook exclusive special offers.   We invite you and your family to like us on Facebook.    Make sure to ask us your questions.