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- Overall Summary
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- Snow Sweet
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- Tolman Sweet
- Valstar
- Wealthy
- William's Pride
- Wolf River
- Zestar!
Popular Posts
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Some of you may have noticed that yesterday morning I wasn’t working at the apple store (this is Kim writing). Instead, I woke up bright a...
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We have some fun and adorable little goats at our orchard this season! I’ve finally managed a few decent pictures of them so I can introduc...
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Hi everyone! We didn’t have a Kids in the Garden program this week due to the holiday. I hope everyone enjoyed their sweltering hot fourth...
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Photo Courtesy of Friends in Photography It seems lately that there are two main questions on everyone’s mind – do you still have H...
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Have you ever wondered how we make our delicious, amazing, incredible unpasteurized apple cider? Well – today is your lucky day. Last seas...
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Today I’m taking a look at a fantastic early apple. It typically ripens around August 15th and is one of the first apples we have available...
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Autumn Decorations at the Orchard
This 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.
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.
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!
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.)
Another chicken hanging out.
MORE SQUASH! Yum!
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.
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).
Thanks for stopping! See you again soon!
Tour Groups and Caramel Apples
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!
Raspberries and Cider and Garage Sales
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.


