08/30/2026
Hello Soons friends & family,
This is what the April freeze did to our apple crop. 🍎
We want to show you what this loss actually looks like.
These 2½ crates—approximately 100 pounds—are our entire Gingergold apple crop for 2026.
In a typical year, we would harvest approximately 19,200 pounds of Gingergold.
19,200 pounds.
This year: 100 pounds.
That is a loss of more than 99% of our Gingergold crop.
And Gingergold is only one variety. The April freeze caused devastating damage throughout the orchard, affecting the apples we depend on for our fresh fruit, our bakery, our cider, and so much of what makes this farm what it is.
We know that seeing a photograph of a damaged orchard doesn’t always make the magnitude of the loss easy to understand. So we want to put it into numbers.
19,200 pounds → 100 pounds.
That is the reality of this year’s Gingergold harvest.
For a family farm, a loss of this magnitude isn’t simply a difficult season. It has serious financial consequences and puts the future of the farm at risk.
This could potentially be a farm-ending season for us.
We don’t share that lightly.
We share it because we want our community to understand what happened here this spring—and why your support of local agriculture matters more than ever.
When you visit the farm, buy a bag of apples, stop for cider, purchase something from our bakery, attend an event, or simply share our posts with a friend, you are helping support a local family farm through an incredibly difficult year.
We are grateful for every person who has supported us through the good harvests and the difficult ones.
Thank you for understanding.
Thank you for caring.
And most importantly, thank you for continuing to show up for our farm. ❤️
🍎 Soons Orchards — farming since 1910.
