Wednesday, June 27, 2012

When a harvest becomes personal..

Lane and I decided to pick the first harvest of candycots ourselves. Because the harvest is light. So, it's not worth the expense to hire harvest workers and it's a shame to leave them on trees. We had a lot of fun picking fruit and inspecting the orchard at the same time. Why is harvest light? We think it's "juvenile unpredictability" on the part of the trees.









Monday, June 25, 2012

Trying to get a glimpse into our future..

Our future with Candycots, anyway. Made a visit to the Candycot packing operation to get an idea. This is where we will be sending our fruit to get it packaged and shipped to whole foods and such. This is set up at Britton/Konynenburg's modesto ranch. The fruit looks beautiful this year and the flavor is amazing.  However, it will be a year or two before our candycot orchard bears sufficient fruit to call it a commercial operation.





Thursday, June 7, 2012

Rust? A shower may be prescribed..

The crops look good, trees are growing well, and the oats are "in the barn." The mild weather has been pleasant, but is conducive to rust disease. We put a fungicide on this month to prevent the disease, but we will continue to watch for it.

Rust disease looks like the following: