Welcome to a new year

I hope that everyone is enjoying their winter and looking forward to spring/summer. At Garsides Fruit Farm we definately are, and hoping that it will be a great fruit year.

We still have our delicious free-range roasting chickens available for sale at $3.50 per pound. Get your orders in quick as our stocks are dwindling. We will be raising more chickens starting in early Spring. These chickens have been fed top-quality, locally produced grain, allowed access to outside pasture and were given no hormones or antibiotics.

As a reminder we do take pre-orders for all our products, so if there is certain items you wish to order we do recommend a pre-order to ensure you able to receive the quantity you desire, as we do sell out of most fruits quickly. Just call or email us with any questions or pre-orders.

Last Chance!

Its your last chance to get delicious Garside's Fruit Farm Apples for the 2011 season.

Currently we have left Boskoop Apples, Jonagold Apples and a few Bramley's left. These apples are available for $1.25/lb. We also have a few King Apples available, these are available for $1.00/lb.

We are also clearing out our Windfall Apples, they are clearance priced for only $0.50/lb.

Also available are our Free Range Roasting Chickens - our chickens were fed a top quality, locally produced grain, access to outdoor pasture, and were given no hormones or antibiotics. Our chickens are available for $3.50/lb.

Contact us quickly to insure you get the quantities you desire. You can reach us via phone at 604.556.4273 or email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Its time for Jonagolds!

Our Jonagolds are ripe and delicious. We have just started picking them, and have them available at the farm. We are also picking our Spartan Apples now.

If you would like to put in an order, please contact us soon, as these apples will sell out fast!

Still to come are our Gloster and Northern Spy Apples.

We still have available: Bramley and Boskoop Apples.

All these apples are available for $1.25 per pound.

If you would like to place an order or have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us via phone at 604.556.4273 or garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

We also still have our Free Range Roasting Chickens available for $3.50 per pound.

Wonderful Autumn

The leaves are falling, the air is brisk and the fall apples are ripening. Sounds wonderful to me!

Currently at Garside's Fruit Farm we have a good selection of apples available.

- Bramley Apples: Crisp, tart, hard large apple. The absolute best apple to bake with. This apple will also store well as long as kept in a cool, dry location.
- Prima Apples: Semi-sweet, crisp beautiful red apple. A great eating apple and perfect for making applesauce and other baking.
- Boskoop Apples: Crisp, semi-sweet rough skin apple. Great for eating or baking. This apple stores very well. If kept in a cool dry location in a cardboard or wooden box, will keep well into the New Year, and will even become sweeter tasting.
- King Apples: A crisp semi-sweet apple, delicious for eating or baking with.

The apples are available for $1.25/lb, except the Primas that are only $1.00/lb.

Coming soon: Spartan Apples, Jonagold Apples, Gloster Apples and Northern Spy Apples. We will also take orders for our Anjou Pears.

Also available right now are our Free Range Roating Chickens. These are available for $3.50/lb. These delicious chickens are raised with access to outside pasture, fed an exceptional quality locally produced grain, and were given no hormones or antibiotics.

If you would like to place an order for any of our products listed, please do not hesitate to contact us via phone at 604.556.4273 or email us at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca anytime. We will be glad to put your order together for you.

Or you are welcome to stop by the farm and pickout what you would like anytime, we are open 7 days a week from 9 am to dusk. The fruit is setout in the garage as a self serve station, with a scale and a payment drop box. If someone is home they will be happy to assist you.

More Apples

There is that feel of fall in the air today, that means apples at Garside's Fruit Farm!

Currently we have:

Bramley Apples
Boskoop Apples
Prima Apples

We also have a very limited supply of King Apples.

The apples are $1.25 per pound with the exception of the Prima Apple, they are $1.00 per pound.

We also have our Free Range Roasting Chickens available. These chickens are fed a top quality locally produced grain, allowed access to outside pasture, no hormones or antibiotics for these birds. The average size this batch is 6 - 7 pounds. They are delicious! These chickens are available for $3.50 per pound.

With Thanksgiving fast approaching now is a good time to get your apples for all the delicious holiday baking that needs to be done.

The farm is open for drop ins from 9 am to dusk. Drive in and pick out what you would like, as it is set up for self service, with a scale and payment box if no-one is home. Or if you prefer you can call or email us your order and we can box it up for you with your name, and pre weigh the fruit out. We do recommend if you would like to ensure you get the quantity and apple variety that you would like to contact us first so we can set them aside for you.

Please feel free to contact us with any questions, comments or orders at 604.556.4273 or garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Hope to see you at the farm soon!

Apples Apples Apples!!

Finally autumn has arrived, and that means the apple harvest is upon us!

Right now we have Bramley and Prima Apples available.

The Bramley Apple is rated the #1 Baking Apple in the world. It is a hard, tart apple, perfect for pies. These apples are available for $1.25 per pound. Get your order in fast!

We also have the Prima Apple available, these apples are a semi-sweet, crisp apple, great for eating or cooking with. They make a delicious apple sauce. The Prima Apples are available for $1.00 per pound.

We are already sold out of our Bartlett Pears, Gravenstein Apples and our Crab Apples.

Sadly we will not be offering U-Pick Hazelnuts this year, with the wet spring, our hazelnut crop was quite poor, and what did grow, was eaten by squirrels.

Also available now is our wildly popular Free-Range Roasting Chickens. These delicious chickens were fed a top quality locally produced grain, allowed access to outside pasture, were professionally processed and flash frozen. I can guarantee you this is the best chicken you will ever eat! The Garside's Fruit Farm Free-Range Roasting Chickens are available for $3.50 per pound. Average size 6 to 7 pounds this batch.

If you have any questions, or would like to order any of our products, please do not hesitate to call or email us at 604.556.4273 or garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Happy Autumn Everyone!

Garside Fruit Farm Beer Can Chicken

Here are instructions of how to make cook your own Beer Can Chicken.

We have used a eight pound Garside's Fruit Farm Free Range Chicken, one can of beer, our own Garside's Fruit Farm Apple Wood for the smoker.

Then place the chicken over the beer can in the stand. I then put a rub on the chicken. The rub is just a mixture of different spices that I chose. I mix all the spices together in a bowl and after rubbing a bit of olive oil over the chicken I gently rub the spices into the chicken.

I then place the chicken on a preheated BBQ with the apple wood in the pre-soaked smoker box. Water was added to the bottom of the pan the chicken sits in to keep the chicken moist. Often beer boils over and adds to the water.

The baking time is similar to baking in the oven, perhaps a little faster. I keep the BBQ between 400 to 425 degrees, and cook 15 mins per pound. Until the chicken reaches an internal temperature of 165F.

Finally we have a delicious moist chicken dinner. This is a relatively easy way to prepare a roast chicken with little clean up required, and especially great for the summer as you do not have to turn on your oven!

If you have any questions on our chickens or how to make a Beer Can Chicken please do not hesitate to contact us. If you would like to order any of our delicious Garside's Fruit Farm Free Range Chickens they are available now, for $3.50 per pound. Average size is around eight pounds, with some larger and a few smaller available.

You can contact us via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or via phone at 604.556.4273.