05/05/2026
Baby apples on the farm! This is our most labor-intensive time of year, when the unripe, little apples need to be thinned by hand. This ensures proper sizing and flavor development as the apples ripen up over the course of many months.
If you’re an organic fresh market farmer, you’re more often than not thinning by hand, which takes tens of thousands of hours over the span of a few months, whereas conventional apple growers can complete this process with one spray in a day. Call us crazy, but we think the flavor is worth the wait.
Overall the crop is looking really good, and we’re looking at an early August start of harvest date.
