No fruit in season right now. Please see our
in season page for estimated ripening times.
May 15: Hello Shaw Orchards friends, and welcome to a new season!
We will get the bad news out of the way. A few days of record highs in April, followed quickly by a few hours of sub freezing temperatures was sufficient to very badly damage our tree fruit crops this year. We will have limited quantities of limited varieties of apples, very few if any peaches, and basically no other tree fruit. Grapes were very badly damaged also. We may try to source some fruit from other farms, but supplies will be very tight as the freeze affected every farm from northern Virginia to New York. PYO tree fruit this year will be limited to Gala which is usually available in late August.
This may be the worst freeze our farm has seen. But the good news is that our diversity will allow us to stay open this year!
The early flush of strawberries were all nipped by the freeze, but the plants rallied and lots more strawberries are ripening. Next week’s warm weather will surely push them along, but at this point it looks like we may not be open by Memorial Day. Once we open, conditions should be VERY GOOD and we have more acreage than ever. Our hope is to make this our biggest strawberry crop ever, despite the weather.
Blueberries and raspberries also came through the freeze well. Sweet corn is only just being planted, and melons and pumpkins are soon to be planted. We plan to grow more flowers than ever, and local produce may be a little late, but all of the farmers in the area are well aware of the need to go big this year, so we anticipate a very good year for vegetables.
Thank you for continuing to visit the farm
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some of the best quality fruit you'll find anywhere in the country, as well as local
produce, jams, jellies, flowers, and canned goods. The orchard is open for pick-your-own strawberries, raspberries, pumpkins, cherries, blueberries, and apples.
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