Sorry, we have fallen behind on updating our website after it went down earlier this year. Here are some key updates for 2025:
- Pick-your-own is not going to be a feature this year due to the limited tree fruit crop (more info by crop below), we are very sorry to disappoint. We will hope that 2026 is a repeat of 2024!
- Apple butter, apple sauce, honey, and tote bags are all non-perishable items in the farmstand every day. We hope to add raspberry jam to the menu in October.
- Cider slushies will generally be available on September and October weekends when it’s warm. They are incredibly refreshing and delicious and made from 100% Plum Brook Farm apples, nothing else!
- Fresh cider will be pressed and available from late September until we run out of apples.
- SNAP-EBT payments are now accepted at our farmstand for all eligible food products! We hope to take HIP someday as well, but new farms are not able to sign up at present.
- Peach fruit buds were damaged when hit -15.7F on January 22, so we only had a tiny harvest from the three trees in our high tunnel.
- Apples are a light crop, partly due to poor weather during bloom that prevented bees from flying in large numbers. Some insect pests that are tough to manage organically were worse than usual this year, so we lost some fruit and will have more imperfections this year than last year.
- Pears (mostly Asian pears) are producing a bigger crop than apples; they bloom earlier and had better pollination weather, and have different pest and disease issues to some extent.
- Raspberries have been our most reliable crop. They have been fantastic since early July and should continue through October at least, with quantities tapering off starting mid-September.
- Blueberries were great while they lasted but are done for the year!
- Grapes were in short supply and are all done for 2025.
- Garlic was also in short supply and is now sold out. We saved beautiful seed garlic from last year’s crop but were so busy making cider and selling apples last November that we did not get much of it in the ground.
- Pumpkins are looking fantastic so far and we hope to have them in the farmstand in late September.
- And yes, everything we grow is produced using only organic-approved materials and practices, but we cannot label as organic because we are not certified.
