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Showing posts with label mums. Show all posts
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Friday, October 9, 2009

Autumn Decorations at the Orchard

053This is the view you will see when you first pull into Lapacek’s Orchard. We are going for a cozy, rustic farm setting. Not only will you be able to find a wide selection of delicious apples, but you will also be able to purchase the perfect decor for this autumn. 051 A HUGE selection of various pumpkins are available. You can either pick your own from our patch or choose your favorite from the ones decorating the yard. Remember, at Lapacek’s Orchard, if it’s not breathing it’s probably for sale. 056 Beautiful mums in many different colors are displayed in the yard are all for your choosing as well. These will continue to be beautiful year after year if you plant them properly…make sure to ask Diane for some tips!059 Who loves SQUASH?! We have TONS of squash! Butternut, buttercup, delicata, acorn, mooregold, hearts of gold, spaghetti squash, Hubbard, carnival, and MORE! At this time we have boxes of butternut and acorn available. Don’t forget you can bake up your squash and freeze it to enjoy for the rest of the year! (yes, that’s a chicken in the background of this picture…they like to wander our little farm.)061 Another chicken hanging out.063MORE SQUASH! Yum!064 Pie Pumpkins! Pie Pumpkins! Pie Pumpkins! Get your pie pumpkins!

Great for baking pie, adding flavor to soups and you could even carve them if you are looking for a smaller pumpkin. 066

We also have a beautiful selection of gourds and mini pumpkins scattered throughout our yard. They add the perfect touch to create that autumn feel at your house. AND if they dry properly (which is not guaranteed) you can sometimes have maraca's! I also have a limited quantity of adorable, whimsical pumpkin stands available for sale. In this picture you can see one that I decided to use a butternut squash for the head! Looks great either way and these will last for YEARS (they’re metal). 052

Thanks for stopping! See you again soon!

Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Tour Groups and Caramel Apples

Well, we have really started to get into our tour group season! We had two tours go through this morning. Diane leads the tours but it seemed like everyone was enjoying it. We have a rather large group coming at 9 tomorrow morning so I have to lead the orchard portion of the tour. I don't mind doing it since I love talking but I'm much better at the one-on-one stuff :)

Diane also put up a really neat corn shock tunnel for the kids to play in. She added some fun things to it like broom corn and huge sunflowers. I think it turned out very well. Frank and Diane have also been picking pumpkins, gourds and squash whenever they have a minute. It's really starting to look like fall around the orchard! Frank picked up a bunch of beautiful mums again at the auction this week. Stop by and decorate your garden/yard!

After we got the girls to bed, Jared and I made another batch of caramel apples...we're really starting to get the hang of things!
Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Raspberries and Cider and Garage Sales

We had a really great weekend. Fall was in the air and everyone was in the mood for apples. We did our first weekend of pick your won raspberries. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. (If you had any problems, please let us know.) And we got many compliments on the wonderful, big berries. We hear they're not so great many places this year, probably due to the recent dry weather. We have a drip line irrigation system in ours so the water is not a problem. We're still learning and your feedback is valuable to us to help us make adjustments.

The first batch of cider will be made Wednesday night and be available here on Thursday morning just in time for the Garage Sale. Hope to see many of you then

Not much picking got done yesterday with the rain, so we're hoping for a good day at it today. The raspberries have had a day of rest and should be looking good for picking today and tomorrow

Frank brought home some really beautiful mums from the Badgerland Produce Co-op Auction yesterday, so I used them to decorate the place...and our decorations are always for sale. (Everything's for sale except the help and the critters. And, yes, those 2 really cite little girls are part of the help.) I want to get some corn stalks cut before the weekend and I picked the first of the gourds, so the place is starting to get that wonderful fall look.

Our first tour group of the year was here yesterday. The Family Resource Center from Portage is always our first. It started to rain lightly 10 minutes before we were scheduled to begin, but we managed to get out to the orchard between showers and checked out our sorting line and cooler and talked about emus inside. Then we got another break between showers so we went outside and saw the emus and cows and some of the older kids actually took a run through the sunflowers field to see the giant sunflowers.

The sunflower field is intended to be a play place for the kids, so be sure to check it out when you're here. We planted in rows this year, and when some washed out in the heavy rains, we just left the spaces. It's kind of like the corn fields so many of us played in as kids.

Well, I think it's time to go picking. The dew is really heavy today, so we'll be avoiding the MacIntosh, at least for a while. They tend to get all kinds of little finger bruises if you pick them wet.


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