Fruit Picking Door County

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Fruit picking door county.

Since 1955 our family has been growing harvesting and producing door county cherry products award winning door county wine and hard cider fresh tart cherries cherry juice and local foods. Lautenbach s orchard country is located in fish creek wisconsin. Farm market located just north of egg harbor wi. The flavors of door county start here.

Harvest and pick your own many of the orchards in door county are anticipating this year s harvest to occur from mid to late july. Alexander s cherry orchard brussels wi cherry lane orchards sturgeon bay wi. Door county is home to farms that offer pick your own strawberries. Winery tours wine tasting bakery u pick fruit and market.

When he planted the first apricot orchard in the county they knew it. For sweet cherries mid june through late july. They ll be opening within the week. First known as stoney acres this property has grown many different crops before it became an established cherry and apple orchard.

When jim planted the first cold hardy sweet cherries in door county people told him he was nuts. Agriculture has played an important role in door county s culture and economy since the 1800s. Head just a little further up the door county peninsula to family run orchard country winery in fish creek for more pick your own cherries and apples along with tasty fruit wines and homemade pies. Door county u pick cherry orchards.

These days door county is still home to many family owned and operated orchards that produce cherries and apples as well as farms that focus on berries dairy and other products with their dedication to. Before you go a few tips to make your picking easier. Stop at one of the following orchards on your next door county vacation and pick your own fresh cherries. We jim and crystal barnard have been growing fruit since 1972.

As the demand for fresh fruit changed so did our farm. Before cherries farmers in door county often had a difficult time coaxing traditional crops to grow in the area s shallow rocky soil. Make sure to go in the early morning before the berries are warmed up by the day s sunlight. Most strawberry patches only allow picking in the morning anyway.

For tart cherries mid july through late july. Then in 1862 a swiss immigrant named joseph zettle discovered that the same door county landscape that had been unfriendly to traditional crops was in fact the perfect landscape to raise fruit orchards.