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Flatau Farm

A 3-acre family farm, we bring you the best tasting, tree ripened fruit at local farmers markets.

06/05/2026

Richland Farmers Market season opens tomorrow! Hope to see you there or in Pasco this weekend. 🍒🫐

05/29/2026

We have so many Saskatoon berries that Paul and I are going to split up this weekend. On Saturday I’ll be and Paul will be . Hope to see you there!
🫐These berries are a true superfood with more than twice the fiber, potassium and iron of a blueberry. They are great with yogurt or cottage cheese as well as delicious in your morning cereal.
🫐Native to North America and popular in Canada, Saskatoon berries are part of the rose plant family (Rosaceae) along with apples, plums, cherries, almonds and yes, roses. A blueberry look alike, this unique fruit offers complex flavor: sweet-tart, with a floral essence and nutty texture because of its small seeds.
🫐High in antioxidants and natural pectin, these berries make excellent jam. We like to eat them fresh in season and flash freeze extras on cookies sheets to use throughout the winter in favorite recipes like Baked Oatmeal.

05/25/2026

Hello friends! Our first market of the 2026 season will be this coming Saturday . The Saskatoon berries are ripe! 🫐

05/23/2026

Finished thinning in the orchard… 🔶From top left: A pluot trunk before thinning - I think I took off about 50% of what’s there • Ladybugs are beneficial insects and a welcome sight in the orchard • A thinned apple limb tied to the new trellis • A few peaches - their spacing is kinda tight, but we’re trying to save everyone we can. Center: A view of the orchard floor after thinning a pluot tree.
🔶Some serious “thinning”! These trees were slated to be replaced next year, but because they had little to no fruit on them, Paul decided removing them this season — to give the soil a chance to rebuild before the new trees go in — was the best choice. He did this is several locations throughout the orchard.

05/07/2026

We have good news and bad news:
To quote Paul, “We can’t tell people what we don’t know.” As we approach our 26th farmers market season, this is what we DO know...

We do know we have a short crop this year. And we know we can’t predict up front what the whole 2026 season will look like.

The good news is we expect a full crop of Saskatoon berries, table grapes and fall apples as well as some pluots - saved by the smudge pots.

The bad news is we experienced a severe frost on March 31st that killed most all of our nectarines, the majority of our peaches and a good percentage of our cherries.

Our aim is to attend the Richland Farmers Market each Friday. Attendance at Saturday markets - in either Walla Walla or Pasco - will be sporadic and based on fruit availability.

As always during the market season, we will send out our weekly email and post on Instagram and Facebook. We’ll let you know what fruits we’ll be taking to which market and when. So stay tuned.

We hope to see you soon!
Paul and Sue Flatau

05/01/2026

• This time of year it’s always exciting to see the new growth happening all around us. I love to see the “baby grapes” when I walk on our hillside. The Saskatoon Berries along the driveway are also beginning to fill out. It won’t be long before they’re ripe.
• Paul grafted some apple trees recently and he’s been hard at work finishing the new apple trellis. Today he tied a few trees to the wires. Progress!
• It rained nearly .75 inches in 24 hours last week. The day it was going to rain one of our grandkids found a huge toad by a planter. He was so excited because the “frog rain” was coming. Sure enough, we could hear the toads and frogs the evening after that. 🐸

04/16/2026

Paul has been working in the apple trees. He’s finishing pruning and has started to work on the new apple trellis system. He’s been digging holes for the poles while I’ve been hanging the codling moth mating disruption lures in the apples as well as peach twig borer mating disruption lures in the soft fruit. Plus, frost protection continues as needed.

04/03/2026

‘Tis the season for frost control. It got down to 26° Tuesday morning!

03/20/2026

Spring is here! The peaches and nectarines are in full bloom! So thankful Paul was able to get some bee boxes from . 🐝 We took a mini van-cation to Pacific City, OR, picking up rootstock on our way home to replenish our farm nursery. We pulled out over 50 older trees that needed to be replaced. And yes, that’s me (Sue) on the front tractor. We used two tractors chained together. Paul would wrap a chain from his tractor around the tree trunk then we would pull forward in tandem. 😅 I finished pruning the grapes, but the pulling and planting of trees as well as some irrigation snafus have kept Paul from finishing up pruning in the peaches and nectarines. Hopefully soon!

03/02/2026

Apples & Applesauce 🍎 Last spring Paul began implementing his plan to move all the apples into two rows. In April he grafted a number of varieties. It’s surprising how much they have grown in just 10 months! One of the next farm projects is to build a trellis system for the apple trees since Paul wants to move away from a central leader design and adopt a V-trellis configuration. Paul contacted a neighboring farmer about purchasing some of his used trellis supplies. He was able to load up his pickup and trailer with posts, wire, anchors and more. We’ve never used a trellis system before, but now’s the time to do it as this is the critical point for training the limbs. 🍏 Another project has been to use up the apples we still have in our cool shed. They are soft at this point and really only good for sauce. We pulled out the industrial apple slicer for this endeavor. Paul likes his applesauce chunky with the peels. We’ve made several batches in the Instant Pot and filled a number of bags for the freezer to make later, but we still have more apples to go!

Address

Basin City, WA

Opening Hours

Monday	1pm - 6pm
Tuesday	1pm - 6pm
Friday	9am - 1pm
Saturday	9am - 1pm

Telephone

+15099061928

Website

http://www.flataufarm.com/

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