All About Peaches
Peach Picking in wisconsin is Coming Soon!
Every Individual Entering the Orchard Must Purchase a Bag to Enter the Orchard
We will keep you posted! Please keep checking our social media, website, and emails or give us a call at 262-884-7100 for all of your peach picking questions.
Bring the Family for a “peachy” good time! Pick your own sweet juicy peaches straight from the trees!
Learn more about peach picking and our 9 different varieties and what we are picking from our Picking Calendar or call for details!
Peach Picking Package Includes:
- Bag for Peach Picking – per person
- Nature walk through the rolling hills of our 80-acre Orchard and Hardwood Forest
After purchasing your peach picking bag (1/4 peck = 3-4 lbs of peaches), you may pick whatever peaches we are picking in the Orchard; but make sure that you keep your receipt. Please show your picking bag receipt when you exit from the orchard. Please make sure that all the peaches you pick are put in your picking bag and not in backpacks, bags, strollers, etc. They will be checked. The last picking bag sold is at 3:00 pm.
While Supplies Last. SORRY, NO REFUNDS.
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We are exploring Racine County today on Discover Wisconsin. We’re heading to Sturtevant for some fresh air and farm cooking. Apple Holler is a little slice of country located between Milwaukee and Chicago right off of I 94. It’s the kind of place where kids can be kids and adults can too! (And the dismount!) So I’ve only ridden a horse one time in my life and I’ve never ridden a pony, so today’s the day. You want to smile at the camera, Stormy? Hey! As you might’ve guessed, there are thousands and thousands of apple trees here at Apple Holler, and during the harvest, you can hop on the train to the orchard and take your pick. Yay. We’re off on an adventure folks.
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We’ve been here before. We like it because of the Hay rides. They get a chance to pick their own apples. It’s enjoyable for the kids and us at the same time. Not far at all coming from Milwaukee, and it’s worth couple minutes to get over here too, so it’s definitely fun and worth it. This is becoming a fall tradition for us.
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Even if you don’t pick your own, you can still enjoy apples straight from the orchard. At Apple Hollers restaurant and Country store, which is open year round,
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We use the apples in the restaurant every possible way. We make apple pancakes, apple fritters. We have apple butter barbecue sauce on our delicious ribs. Our apple pies- we’re famous for those. There’s over three and a half pounds of apples per pie, so they’re just massive. The restaurant really adds to the agricultural experience here because we’re able to feature the items that we’re growing, whether it’s pumpkins with making pumpkin pie apples and our apple cider, and people really appreciate that they can go out and pick apples and see all the different ways that they can use them.
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Now, despite its name, apples aren’t the only fresh fruit you can find at Apple Holler in the summertime, you can pluck fresh juicy peaches right off the tree.
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My daughters and I wanted to come out and just see what it was like and have a peach right off the tree. We’ve never done that before. A lot of peaches fit in that little bag.
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That’s really good. I like it. Tell me what we’re doing here with peaches in Wisconsin, we wanted a July crop, so I purchased probably 10 different varieties of July and early August. Peaches, fresh peaches off the tree. Tastes pretty good,
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Right? Yeah. I got to have one right before this, and it was really super juicy. Lots of juice in July and August. We do everything peaches, including the peach pie and peach lemonade and all those types of things. And peach ice cream, I’m sure. Peach sundaes. So yeah, everything. Peaches.
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Pick some peaches. You’re telling me what’s the name of this variety? Yeah, Colin. These are our flaming Furies. It’s the PF one variety, which just means it’s a little earlier in the year than the other Flaming Fury varieties. And these trees are only a year old, and so that is why they’re a little bit short. And also why the peaches are a little bit smaller.
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Do you have a trick that when you’re looking for the perfect peach, what do you look for?
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Well, what I look for is the deepest color that I can see. I had my eye on this one as we walked over to the point. Sure. Oh, look at it. Glistening!
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We Grow the Following Peaches at Apple Holler
Flaming Fury (Clingstone) ripens early to mid-July. Mostly red skin, non-browning with a mild flavor. It is juicy and sweet with minimal split pits.
Desiree (Semi-Freestone) ripens mid-July. This good flavored peach is medium-sized and is colored crimson red over yellow red with a firm yellow flesh.
Harrow Diamond (Freestone) ripens late July. Yellow skinned peach covered with a red blush. Its yellow flesh is non-browning, juicy and sweet; good for eating fresh, canning or freezing.
Early Star (Semi-Freestone) ripens late July. Fruit is medium in size with good color and firmness.
GlenGlo (Semi-Freestone) The fruit is large, very firm and freestone when tree-ripened.
Eight Ball (Freestone) The fruit is highly colored, almost completely red and good size
Bright Star (Semi-Freestone) ripens late July. It is a good early eating peach, with great flavors, good color and firmness. It has very few split pits.
Sentry (Semi-Freestone) ripens mid-July. This big flavored large peach is firm and attractive with a sweet yellow flesh.
Red Haven (Freestone) ripens late July. This red over yellow fruit is a popular peach with a long shelf life. This is a great peach for all your canning recipes.
