08/03/2026
U-pick update!
🫐 Blueberries- still lots and good quality! $2.15/lb
👑 Triple crown blackberries- not a lot but nice quality. $2.15/lb
🖤 Currants- lots of red ones and a few black ones left. $2.15/lb
💜 Elderberries- lots. Nice quality. Bring your own snippers and trim the whole stem. Cook before consuming. $12.50/lb. NOT eligible for Marionberries Berry Pass.
🍎 Apples! Just started. We have Akane, Williams pride, and Chehalis currently. $1.25/lb. These are also available for the Marion berry pass. Limit of 4 apples a swipe.
Farm store. Apples, apples, apples! $2/lb in the store. We have several varieties from our heritage orchard in Scio! Come try a new-to-you variety. We guarantee you won’t find most of these in the grocery store. We have Akane, Williams’ Pride, Redfree, Gravenstein, Lubsk Queen, and Duchess of Oldenburg.
One fun variety to highlight this week is the Duchess of Oldenburg! While it’s a culinary apple generally great for pies and dried apples, it’s also a mild cider bitter. Don’t be thrown off by that term! We encourage you to try one and see how robust the flavor can be in a true culinary apple - quite a different experience than a run-of-the-mill grocery apple. This heirloom Russian apple of the 1700s is also in the family tree of the Honeycrisp apple. The Honeycrisp has a pollen parent variety called MN 1627 which carries the genetics of both Golden Delicious and Duchess of Oldenburg. Apple genetics are both complicated and fascinating!
Stay tuned in the coming weeks as we highlight a new and unique apple variety each week!
We are located at 7023 Sunnyview Rd NE Salem. Open Monday through Saturday 8-6.