Fruit and Vegetable Forecast

January - March our market is  still open with reduced hours and you can find us at the PA Farm Show!

Late April and May - Look forward to our first vegetables!  Spinach and asparagus, as well as a little rhubarb.  Bedding plants flower baskets and more.

Late May - Strawberries watch this website for updates closer to the approximate picking/ripening dates.

Early June - usually brings cabbage, zucchini, lettuce, early red potatoes, sugar peas, and hull peas, as well as green beans.

Late June - Sweet corn,  Raspberries, Sweet and sour cherries, Lodi cooking apples and some early peaches start in late June.   Sweet and sour cherries usually after June 20. Lodi early cooking apples and some early peaches usually arrive by the end of June.

July - Many of late June crops continue in July, plus we begin to have plums, nectarines, tomatoes, peppers, and melons, most from mid July on.

August - Peaches, pears and later August grapes.

September - begin our harvest of 40 acres of fall apples. We start with Gala & McIntosh types including Spartan, McIntosh, Macoun, Empire and Jonagold. We also have Jonathan and Smokehouse cooking and tart eating apples.

We press our own sweet apple cider. We usually begin this the first week of September, depending on the weather conditions. If it is too hot, we may wait a week.

Red and Golden Delicious follow in early to late September.

October- Stayman Winesap and Fugi apple.  We grow many kinds of decorating and pie pumpkins, lots of squash including acorn and butternut, plus 4 or 5 other kinds.  We also grow many kinds of decorating gourds.

In the fall our bakery will have pumpkins pies and apple dumplings, besides our usual line of pies and cookies.

As November approaches and through December, we add gift boxes and baskets* of many sizes and varieties. Along with a good selection of apples and fall vegetables.

Growing for you since 1914

Strites' Orchard Farm Market and Bakery