1. Pick
Your Own are from Mondays through Saturdays beginning in June through October,
depending on fruit availability.
2. Entry
and Exit from the orchard is by walking or wagon ride, depending on the orchard
location.
3. Children
must be accompanied by an adult, and pets are not allowed in the orchard. No
picnicking in the orchard.
4. Pick
only in designated areas and into containers provided to you. No plastic bags or
other containers are allowed.
5. Do
not wander into other areas of the orchard or farm.
6. Pick
only what you intend to purchase. All fruit harvested will be paid for in
advance upon arrival at the U-Pick station.
7. Don’t
overload your containers, take another.
8. Do
not climb or shake the trees. Limbs break easily, and the fruit will fall and
bruise!
9. Using one
hand to hold the branch, use your forefinger and thumb to gently turn fruit
upward till it releases. (If the fruit is not easily released, it means that it
is not ripe, and the sweetness is not yet in that fruit.)
10. Cherries
should be picked with their stems on.
11. Do
not throw fruit around or at each other!
12. Please don't
litter, trash cans are provided.
13. Smoking is
prohibited.
14. Many labor intensive hours go into the loving care of our fruit bearing
trees. We ask that if you accidentally drop any fruit on the ground to please
make every effort to pick that piece of fruit up and place in your picking bag
so that no fruit is wasted. If two or three fruits are clustered together, use
two hands and gently pick all the fruit in the cluster.
15. Fruit varieties mature at different times. Pick only in designated areas
or where there is a guide or posted signs
Thank
You For Your Continued Patronage.
We Hope The
Farm Experience Will Be Enjoyed For Many Generations.