Updates From The Farm
Notes from the Field: Week of October 14th
A bin of beautiful, canary-yellow quince.This week we’re heading into the cold, wet weather – admittedly begrudgingly – with a few last harvest pushes still ahead. Varieties left out in the field are dwindling – we’ve got some Jonagold, Melrose, Galarina, and...
Notes from the Field: Week of October 7th
Ripe Kiwi berries!!This week we’re harvesting a variety of late season fruit! Apples, pears, quince and kiwi berries are still keeping us plenty busy with harvest. We'll also be picking our latest ripening grape variety, Neptune, this week. Harvesting and packing...
Notes from the Field: Week of September 30
This week started off CHILLY with a low in the 30s overnight here in Everson on Sunday night and a slight dew frost on the grass this Monday morning on parts of the farm. Autumn is surely here and the harvests prove that to be the case – we’ll be busy picking apples...
Notes from the Field: Week of September 23rd
Kiwi Berries nearly ready for harvestThis week we’re continuing Honeycrisp harvest as well as some smaller picks of dessert and cider apples, pears and potentially the first kiwi berry harvest of the year. Most of the time not spent harvesting is spent packing fruit...
Notes from the Field: Week of September 16
A bosc pear and an Elstar apple.This week we’ll be scavenging what rest of the grapes we can before the rains come in earnest this coming weekend/next week, and harvesting lots of apples and pears! Noting looking back at our records from previous years how this year...
Notes from the Field: Week of September 9
Sampling apples and pears to check for ripeness before creating our harvest lists. This week we’re starting with harvests on pears and grapes with large apple picks like Honeycrisp just around the corner. Harvest takes most of our time these days, but other activities...
Buy Two Fruit Trees, Get a Third Free
Fall is a wonderful time to plant fruit trees, and we've got our best selection in years at the nursery! Our highly anticipated "buy 2 get a 3rd free" fruit tree sale starts Thursday, Sept 12. Apples, pears, plums, cherries, peaches, and nut trees are all included. In...
Notes from the Field: Week of September 2
Honeycrisp apples ripening up (probably ~1 week to first harvest)This week we’re all systems go on summer and fall fruit. With delays across the board in ripening fruit this year due to cooler temps, we’ve now reached a point where we have peaches overlapping with...
Featured Fruit: Orcas Pears
Orcas Pear is a Bartlett-style pear that was discovered as a seedling on Orcas Island in the San Juans. It became commercially available in 1986 and is prized for its productivity, large fruit, and resistance to pear scab. The fruit is smooth skinned with a yellow to...
Notes from the Field: Week of August 26
Nearly ripe Akane applesThis week we’re picking peaches, apples, pears and eagerly monitoring Lynden Blue grapes for ripeness. We'll also be prepping our apple line for the first big apple washing of the season, cleaning up apple drops to reduce pest pressure and...
Notes from the Field: Week of August 19
The most beautiful peach plum you ever did see.This week feels like we’re entering our more full-on harvest season – peach, plum, apple and pear varieties are ready for picking, and we’re ~2 weeks out on our first grape varieties. This cooling down of temperatures...
Featured Fruit: Methley Plums
Here at Cloud Mountain, we grow more than 150 varieties of certified organic fruit at the base of Sumas Mountain in Everson, WA. One of our team’s favorite early-ripening fruits is the Methley Plum. They’re a wonderful choice for both eating and growing! The Methley’s...