fresh picked apples Available Bag your own

Zestar!, MacIntosh, Gala, Cortland, Empire, Delicious, Royal Gala, Snow Sweet, Crimson Crisp, Northern Spy, Granny Smith, Ambrosia

Available Pre-Bagged

Honey Crisp apples, Sweet Jenny, Howell, and Flemish Beauty Pears. Bosc coming soon.

OUR OWN APPLES

We grow 24 varieties of apples and 8 varieties of pears and pick each when they are ripe and at their peak of size and taste. All of our apples ripen at different times of the season, some being early like Ginger Gold, Paula Reds, and Zestar! and some later such as Northern Spies, Red Delicious, and Russets. Come by our store to see what is available now or give us a call if you would like more details about when your favorite variety will be ready. Don’t forget to try a variety that is new to you. Our friendly staff can advise you on taste but it’s best to ask for a sample and taste for yourself. You might find a new favorite.

A Few of Our Apple Varieties

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Empire Apple
Empire Apple

Empire apples are red, juicy, firm, crunchy and sweet. They ripen during September and October, and will keep until January. The original seed was a cross between the varieties McIntosh and Red Delicious.Empire apples are excellent for eating and salads, and good for sauce, baking, pies and freezing.

Honey Crisp
Honey Crisp

The Honeycrisp was developed by the University of Minnesota specifically for growers in cold climates. The apple has a combination of tartness, sweetness, juiciness and crunch, ranking high in all categories in our taste test. The crunchiness is accentuated by the light and airy feel of the flesh. The Honeycrisp has grown in popularity through its life as more and more people have fallen for its crunch. On the outside, the apple is a mottled red and green color and the inside flesh is a pale white that doesn’t brown very easily.

McIntosh
McIntosh

First discovered in the early 1800s, the McIntosh apple has become a North American icon, so much so that an Apple employee named the Macintosh line of computers after the fruit. The McIntosh has a red and green skin and white flesh inside. The apple was very tart and didn’t have much sweetness or juiciness in the flesh.

Delicious
Delicious

One of the most famous American apple varieties, a sport of Delicious, known for its bright red color.

Granny Smith
Granny Smith

Granny Smith apples have a bright green skin that is often speckled with faint white spots. Medium to large in size and round in shape, they are a firm and juicy apple with thick skin. Their flesh is white and crisp in texture with a tart, acidic, yet subtly sweet flavour. Granny Smith apples grown in colder climates will often take on a yellow to pink blush.

Royal Gala
Royal Gala

Gala apples are covered in a thin yellow to orange skin, highlighted with pink to red stripes that vary in hue dependent upon the apples maturity. Their dense flesh is creamy yellow and crisp, offering a mildly sweet flavour and flora aroma. Gala’s that are allowed to reach the peak of their sweetness on the tree will have a deeper red hue and a slightly sweeter flavour. 

Cortland
Cortland

Cortland apple is bright red and covered with dark red streaks, often they are capped with a green blush. Their crisp white flesh is exceptionally juicy with a sweet-tart flavour. 

Russet
Russet

Russet apples often exhibit a scent and flavour reminiscent of nuts, and are often very sweet. Despite this, modern apple breeders rarely accept russeting in new apple cultivars.

Northern Spy
Northern Spy

Northern Spy apples are a late season, large apple with carmine red skin with streaks of yellow and pale green. Its tender-crisp flesh is creamy yellow and juicy. It imparts a bit of a tartness in its bite, but more of a cider-quality flavour with hints of pear and sweetness. A great baking apple!

Ida Red
Ida Red

Ida Red apples grow on slightly small trees, which are nonetheless good fruit producers. The apples themselves are medium in size and generally round, with a layer bright red over a green-red background. The flesh is yellowish-green, although sometimes a faint pink tinge can be detected. They are both sweet and tart, juicy yet crisp and firm. The best fruits have a sprightly, aromatic, and refreshing flavour, although some may lack strong flavour.

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Learn about 'CA' storage here!

Apple season starts in July here at Campbell’s Orchards and a regular refrigerated storage (32 degrees F or 0 degrees C)is used for our fruit. We sell as much of our crop from our cold storage and any left, we sell off in the later winter months 2 for 1 as they are getting soft. In the fall, we stash some bins of premium varieties into a Controlled Atmosphere Storage off-site. These premium apples are pulled out of CA and we bring them home to our Cold Storage to sell. When the proper growing and harvesting techniques are used, many varieties of apples can be stored for 12 months when CA storage is used

CA storage as we know it got its start in England before World War II when farmers discovered their produce kept longer if stored in an airtight room. Commercial CA storage of apples in the United States had its early start in New York State and almost entirely in the Hudson Valley with the McIntosh variety. The first three CA rooms were put into operation in 1940. By late 1940, the Hudson Valley area had a 24,000 bushels CA capacity, and by 1949 this had increased to a 100,000-bushel capacity.

Buying crisp, sweet fruit year-round is possible due to controlled atmosphere storage. CA storage involves careful control of temperature, gases (oxygen, carbon dioxide and nitrogen) and humidity; all kept at specified levels. Apples take in oxygen and give off carbon dioxide as starches in the flesh change to sugar. In sealed CA rooms, this respiratory process reduces the oxygen level to slow the ripening process.

CA storage is a non-chemical process. Oxygen levels in the sealed rooms are reduced, usually by the infusion of nitrogen gas. Oxygen levels drop from approximately 21 percent in the air we breathe to 1 or 2 percent. Temperatures are kept at a constant 32 to 36 degrees Fahrenheit. Humidity is maintained at 95 percent and carbon dioxide levels are also controlled. Exact conditions in the rooms are set according to the fruit variety. Researchers develop specific regimens for each variety to achieve the best quality. Computers help keep conditions constant.

Timing of the harvest is critical for good storage results. Fruit picked too early will not store well in CA nor will those that are picked past their proper maturity. In mid-August, apple growers start testing the maturity of their apples to accurately predict when to harvest their crop to put in CA rooms so the apples are mature, but not too ripe. Pear growers soon follow with similar tests. Firmness, skin color, seed color, sugar level and flesh chlorophyll are al

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