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January - March our market is still open with reduced hours and you can find us at the PA Farm Show! "2007 Farm Show Winner 1st prize gift basket!" 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 (Last year it was June 23)., 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. In September we 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. Stayman Winesap and Fugi apple are usually started in early October. 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. *Winner - 1st Prize - Best Gift Basket 2007 Farmshow!
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About Strites' Orchard |
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Strites' Orchard Farm Market is an 8000 sq. ft. market located in the
Chambers Hill/Lower Swatara Township area on a 300 acre fruit and
vegetable farm.
We grow nearly everything we sell at our farm market. We grow 14 different kinds of fruits, from strawberries in June through Quinces in the fall. We have 50 acres of apples, 8 pears, 8 nectarines, 5 grapes, 5 raspberries, 8 strawberries, 1 each blueberries and blackberries, 38 peaches, 5 plums, 2 apricots, 10 sweet and sour cherries, plus quinces. Our 35 kinds of vegetables, start with spinach and asparagus in the spring and run through turnips in late fall. Included in our 110 acres of vegetables are sweet corn, green beans, peas, peppers, tomatoes, pumpkins, melons, potatoes, etc. In addition we have 4 greenhouses which produce many kinds of flower and vegetable plants, as well as hanging baskets. Our market also stocks jellies, jams, apple butter, apple sauce, pumpkin butter, as well as canned peaches and nectarines. We also make our own pasteurized sweet apple cider from September through April.
Because we mostly sell what we grow, fruits and vegetables become
available depending on weather, and growing seasons. We start with
spinach and greenhouse plants and flowers, and end with apples and
potatoes.
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