Summer Solstice has come, where is summer?

The fruit at the farm is progressing nicely despite the lack of actual sunny days. We are anticipating the fruit to ripen up a little slower than last years crop, due to the slower start to summer, but will still be delicious as always.

We expect our sour cherries to be ready for picking soon, we anticipate early July. These cherries are great for jams, jellies, wine, baking and syrup. There are also some great recipes for placing these cherries in brandy to make desserts with them. If you are interested they are $3.00 per pound. Please email or call if you would like to place an order.

The next fruit to be ready will be our crab apples, these delicious little apples are great for baking, ciders and ales, jellies and will make a delicious dessert wine. Our crab apples are $1.00 per pound.

The next apple to be ready will be our Gravenstein Apple, these are one of our most popular apples and we sell out of them fast. If you are interested in these apples I highly suggest getting in a preorder soon, as we only have limited quanitites of this variety. The Gravenstein is $1.25 per pound.

If you are interested in preordering any of our fruit or just have questions or comments please feel free to call or email us at any time, our phone number is 604.556.4273 or email us at Garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Keep checking our website for more updates, we will be posting more frequently as the fruit and vegetables ripen.

Spring has Sprung!

Well spring has arrived at the farm, and all our trees are in bloom, with the bees buzzing around. We are anticipating a good crop, as the weather has been favourable during this blossom period.

We anticipate that the crops should be ready in this order, or close to it:

- Sour Cherries
- Crab Apples
- Gravenstein Apples
- Prima Apples
- Discovery Apples
- Bartlett Pears
- Prune Plums
- Blackberries
- Bramley Apples
- King Apples
- Spartan Apples
- Hazelnuts
- Jonagold Apples
- Gloster Apples
- Anjou Pears
- Northern Spy Apples

We will also have many of our vegetables available through much of the summer season.

We are also planning to offer U-pick Hazelnuts again this summer, and will post more on this when the nuts begin to fall.

As our fruit begins to grow and ripen I will be able to give more accurate times to when we will be harvesting it and will update the website as soon as I know. We do take preorders for all varieties. I do encourage preordering for Gravenstein Apples and Sour Cherries, as we sell out of those very quickly.

We do still have some free range roasting chickens available, most are about six pounds or greater. They are available for $3.75 a pound. We will be raising more chickens starting late this spring, and will have more available for sale in the summer. These chickens are delicious and locally grown, perfect for the 100 mile diet.

Garside`s Fruit Farm will be attending the Abbotsford Farm and Country Market again this year, we anticipate arriving there in August. We generally have already sold out of our Gravenstein Apples and Sour Cherries before we arrive at the market, so if you wish to get some of this fruit, best to contact us soon, for a preorder.

We will be offering a delivery service again this year. More details to come.

If you have any questions, or comments or would like to preorder any of our products, please do not hesitate to drop us a line. You can contact us via email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or by phone at 604.556.4273.

Chickens

We are now sold out of our apples and hazelnuts for the 2009 season.

We do still have some squash and lots of our free range roasting chickens available.

Our chickens have been fed a top quality, locally produced, antibiotic free grain, the chickens were given no hormones and were allowed to run around outside.

The chickens are available for $3.50 per pound, and the average size is six to seven pounds.

If interested or just have questions about any of our products, please feel free to call us at 604.556.4273 or email us at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Northern Spy Apples

We are now picking our Northern Spy Apples and they look great! Perfect apples for eating or baking with and they will keep nicely over the winter if kept in a cool dry location.

They are $1.00 per pound.

We also still have some Jonagold Apples left and those are also $1.00 per pound. We are now sold out of our Gloster Apples for the 2009 season.

We also have about 10 pounds or so left of picked Hazelnuts remaining and a few squash. The hazelnuts are $3.00 per pound and the squash are $1.00 per pound.

Our roasting chickens are still available and are delicious. These chickens were free run, fed top quality grain with no hormone and no antibiotics. They were professionally processed and frozen at Ross Down Farms. Our chickens are $3.50 per pound.

If you would like to order any of our meat or produce or just have questions regarding us, please do not hesitate to ask. You can phone us at 604.556.4273 or email us at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Abbotsford Farm & Country Market

We will be attending the Abbotsford Farm and Country Market this Spooky, Saturday morning - October 31st. Please come see our booth, we will be spookdified! This is the final outdoor market of the season, and likely our last showing at the market for this season. You can still pick up fruit at the farm though. The market runs from 9 am to 1 pm in the parking lot of the Trinity United Church on George Ferguson Way in Downtown Abbotsford.

The apples we currently have are Glosters and Jonagolds. Our Northern Spy apples are ripening up nicely and should be ready in a few weeks. If you are interested in ordering any of our apples please do not hesitate to contact us. We likely will also have some tomatoes, sugar pumpkins, squash and some hazelnuts at the market.

We still have roasting chickens available for purchase, however we will not have any at the market with us, but you can order them from us at any time. These are delicious free range chickens, no hormones or antibiotics were used. The chickens were professionally processed and frozen at Ross Down Farms.

Our apples are all $1.00 per pound and our chickens are $3.50 per pound.

We hope to see you all at the spookiest market of the year!

If you have any questions, comments or orders please call us at 604.556.4273 or email us at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca

Chickens and Apples

We now have available our free run roasting chickens for sale. These chickens have been raised on our farm and were fed non-medicated feed and were allowed to graze outside and eat wild grasses. These chickens are large, juicy and delcious. Average weight is seven or so pounds. These chickens were professionally processed and frozen.

Our chickens are $3.50 per pound.

The apples we have available at this time are:

- Gloster Apples
- Jonagold Apples
-Spartan Apples

All our apples are $1.00 per pound.

Coming soon are Northern Spy apples, get your pre-orders in now to ensure you get the quantity you would like.

We do also have squash, hazelnuts, sugar pumpkins and zucchinis still available.

If you are interested in ordering any of our products, or if you just have questions please do not hesitate to shoot us an email at garsidesfruitfarm@shaw.ca or call us at 604.556.4273.

Last Chance for Hazelnuts!!!

Monday October 12th, will be our last day at the farm for U-pick hazelnuts. We have been open for picking for quite a number of weeks now and are almost picked out! We still have some picked hazelnuts available for purchase and they will be available at the farm and at Abbotsford Farm and Country Market next Saturday.

We are also now sold out of our Boskoop and Sinta Apples for this season. If you missed out this year on any of our apples we do take pre-orders for next years crops, so do not hesitate to let us know if you would like some next year!

We still have available:

- Jonagold Apples
- Gloster Apples
- Spartan Apples

If you would like to order some apples, please feel free to call or email us and let us know how many pounds you would like and we can box it up for you.

Coming soon is our Northern Spy Apple. Pre-order now to ensure you get your apples.

We do still also have:

- Sugar Pumpkins
- Squash
- Zucchinis
- Tomatoes (Cherry and Larger Varieties)