Topic: spring time
grandpatofourgirls's photo
Mon 02/19/18 11:10 PM
time to spray them fruit trees

Tom4Uhere's photo
Mon 02/19/18 11:17 PM
I always wanted to plant fruit trees and berry bushes around a school. For that matter, line all the sidewalks too.

Down here there isn't any pick-your-own farms.
Used to love taking my family apple pickin.
Fun memories.

http://www.eckerts.com/things-to-do

grandpatofourgirls's photo
Tue 02/20/18 06:14 AM
that would be nice to b able to pick yrs on fruit at school I got bout fifty

Tom4Uhere's photo
Tue 02/20/18 11:47 AM
Fifty, thats a pretty good sized farm.
All one fruit or an assortment?
What kind of fruit do they produce?

Down here, Alabama peaches are found at road stands in season.
Also lots and lots of pecans (yes, i know pecans are nuts not fruit)
We also get Florida oranges in season at the roadside stands.

Up in PA, where I grew up, it was mainly apples and pears oh and walnuts (yes, I know). You could find plum trees but the plumbs were usually pretty small. Nearly every farm had some type of fruit trees, and berry bushes. Usually close to the barn or house.

grandpatofourgirls's photo
Tue 02/20/18 09:44 PM
I got apples peaches blueberries grapes figs pecans chest nuts and I plant a big garden

no photo
Tue 02/20/18 10:14 PM
We are getting a taste of spring. Spring fever is on the air.

Tom4Uhere's photo
Tue 02/20/18 10:30 PM
I got apples peaches blueberries grapes figs pecans chest nuts and I plant a big garden

When I lived and worked in Erie, Pa (the mistake by the lake, lol) I often had to do service calls on the NY highway (90).
There's miles upon miles of those grape fields (mostly thos big purple ones with the seeds). Used to stop and grab a bunch to munch on the way back. I figured why should they care, I did no damage and only took a bunch out of acres and acres of rows.

Every once in awhile we get a truck selling Georgia peaches, those suckas are good.

I don't even know what a fig looks like?
Those are the ones sold in the stores wrapped in dough?
er...Fig Newtonians? no, Fig Newtons. Yeah, those suck.

Do you primarily sell your harvest commercially or do you do farmer's markets or roadside stands?

Ya ever make apple butter and cider to sell?
Kimmswick, Mo has an annual apple butter festival that is quite nice. Whole town turns into a craft fair basically.
http://www.visitkimmswick.com/apple_butter_festival

grandpatofourgirls's photo
Fri 02/23/18 09:19 AM
i can an make jelleys for my family an share with the neighbors I loves the figs straight off the tree an I freeze them in gallon zip lock bags then I can get s hand full and eat them when they r bout halfway thawed out an do the blue berries same way but I sometimes pit them in ice cream I got over 700 canning jars I can deer meat an chicken to name a few its time consuming but worth it

Toodygirl5's photo
Fri 02/23/18 10:10 AM
Much rain will bring Spring Flowers.