Our Orchards
HOME ORCHARD IN FULL BLOSSOM!
We've separated the Bayfield Apple Company into separate Orchards for identification:
North and South Home Orchards:
These are the orchards closest to our store and our the trees you see as you drive into the Apple Company
Approximately 2.5 acres with 90-100 trees per acre
These trees are the original standard tree spacing is about 30 feet by 30 feet between trees.
We are converting North Home from Standards to dwarf. We are replacing our Beacon trees with Honeycrisp and Liberty trees. The Beacons, as those trees were believed to be planted about 1938 (according to paperwork from Einar).
Eventually, all the older trees will be gone and this will all be new dwarf plantings. We are filling IN ROW for now, but once they are mostly gone we will fill NEW rows between existing to bring plant spacing down from 30 to 15 feet for the smaller sized trees.
Smith Orchard
We lease this orchard. It is found approximately a quarter mile north on HWY J.
Approximately 5 acres, Contains: 200-300 original trees, mostly Firesides, Humes, Cortlands, Macoun, few Beacons, a few Wealthy and Red Delicious, a very few HoneyCrisp or Sweet Sixteens, some other odds and ends
Intensive Orchard:
Planted in 1980's, New style of planting then. Approximately 700 trees on 2 acres
Zestar Orchard:
contains 400 trees on about 1 acre.
Northwest Orchard:
Located behind our store- this orchard is completely organic. Approximately 2 acres
Apple varieties: Snowsweets, Sweet Sixteen, Fuji, NovaSpy, Crab
Wild West:
Approximately an acre
New varieties of disease resistant Organic Honecrisp
Pears:
Approximately an acre
New tree planting is about 6 feet in rows and 12 feet between rows, so 72 square feet per tree or 600/trees per acre. The Intense orchard has slightly larger spacing, so that has about 700 trees on two acres. All together maybe 7 acres of dwarf rootstock, organic except Intense. Varieties include : HoneyCrisp, Zestar, Snowsweets, Hume, Cortland, MacIntosh, Haralson, Liberty, Sansa, Sweet Sixteen, Redfree, Crimson Crisp, NovaSpy, GoldRush, Some crabs.
North and South Home Orchards:
These are the orchards closest to our store and our the trees you see as you drive into the Apple Company
Approximately 2.5 acres with 90-100 trees per acre
These trees are the original standard tree spacing is about 30 feet by 30 feet between trees.
We are converting North Home from Standards to dwarf. We are replacing our Beacon trees with Honeycrisp and Liberty trees. The Beacons, as those trees were believed to be planted about 1938 (according to paperwork from Einar).
Eventually, all the older trees will be gone and this will all be new dwarf plantings. We are filling IN ROW for now, but once they are mostly gone we will fill NEW rows between existing to bring plant spacing down from 30 to 15 feet for the smaller sized trees.
Smith Orchard
We lease this orchard. It is found approximately a quarter mile north on HWY J.
Approximately 5 acres, Contains: 200-300 original trees, mostly Firesides, Humes, Cortlands, Macoun, few Beacons, a few Wealthy and Red Delicious, a very few HoneyCrisp or Sweet Sixteens, some other odds and ends
Intensive Orchard:
Planted in 1980's, New style of planting then. Approximately 700 trees on 2 acres
Zestar Orchard:
contains 400 trees on about 1 acre.
Northwest Orchard:
Located behind our store- this orchard is completely organic. Approximately 2 acres
Apple varieties: Snowsweets, Sweet Sixteen, Fuji, NovaSpy, Crab
Wild West:
Approximately an acre
New varieties of disease resistant Organic Honecrisp
Pears:
Approximately an acre
New tree planting is about 6 feet in rows and 12 feet between rows, so 72 square feet per tree or 600/trees per acre. The Intense orchard has slightly larger spacing, so that has about 700 trees on two acres. All together maybe 7 acres of dwarf rootstock, organic except Intense. Varieties include : HoneyCrisp, Zestar, Snowsweets, Hume, Cortland, MacIntosh, Haralson, Liberty, Sansa, Sweet Sixteen, Redfree, Crimson Crisp, NovaSpy, GoldRush, Some crabs.
Apple Varieties WE GROW
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CONVENTIONALLY GROWN
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