Fresh and local apples will be available starting in August. Use in all areas including fresh eating, baking, juicing, drying and freezing. We enjoy growing a wide variety of apples.
For inquiries about bulk sizes in wholesale amounts, please e-mail ([email protected]) or call the store during office hours (905-468-8627).
Some of our varieties include the following:
Enterprise – Large, attractive red apple with excellent fruit quality and storage capacity (up to 6 month)
Florina – Yellow/green apple with a red blush. Crisp and juicy with a well balanced and flavourful sugar-acid ratio. Good for storage.
Galarina – Small to medium sized apple, orangish-red over a yellow background. The flavor is crisp and sweet. Excellent for storage.
Grime’s Golden – Medium to large apple with crisp and sweet flesh with excellent flavour.
Honeycrisp – Large apple, with a light green/yellow background and red/orange blush. Crisp and exceptionally juicy, with a well balanced sweet-tart flavour.
Karneval – Medium to large apple, yellow streaks over carmine background, with crisp flesh and well balanced flavour. Excellent for storage.
Liberty – McIntosh-style apple, with red skin and crisp, juicy flesh, and well balanced flavour.
Luna – Golden Delicious-style apple, with yellow skin and crisp, juicy flesh, very sweet and aromatic. Excellent for storage.
Pristine – Very early much improved “Yellow Transparent” type apple with crisp flesh, excellent flavour, and great good acid/sugar balance. Ripens in early August.
Rebella – Perfect children’s apple, small with a yellow undertone and red blush. Crisp, juicy, and sweet, with balanced acidity.
Red Cortland – Bright red, very juicy apple with sweet-tart flavour.
Red Free – Medium-sized summer apple with a sweet taste and good crunch. Perfect for fresh eating!
Red Love – Small to medium red apple with arresting pink/red flesh. Firm, flavourful and juicy, with a strong sweet-acid flavour tending towards tartness. Exceptionally high in antioxidants.
| In Season | Mid August to October |
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| Usage | Canning, Cider, Drying, Freezing, Fresh Eating, Juicing, Storage |
| Fruit Varieties | Ashmead's Kernel, Empire, Enterprise, Galarina, Grime's Golden, Karneval, Luna, Rebella, Red Cortland, Red Free, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, Florina, Honeycrisp, Liberty, Prima, Pristine, Red Love |
| Package Size | 3L Basket, 20lbs Box Treerun |
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We do not ship fruit to individual homes – but here is a list of the fine families and farms from which you can obtain your Palatine Fruit. Please contact and order from them directly.
Sideroad Farm Store (Amy and Patrick Kitchen)
805092 Sideroad 25, RR3, Markdale, ON N0C 1H0
705-446-5503, www.sideroadfarm.com
Brookfront Farm Store
2053 Bridge Street, New Dundee, ON
519-696-2637, www.brookfrontfarms.com
Eat Local Muskoka (Colin Sober-Williams)
Fenelon Falls, ON
705-380-6936, www.eatlocalmuskoka.ca
Fruition (Jackie Keenan) – pre-orders only
Guelph, ON, [email protected]
Ontario Fruit Lovers (Laurie Lemay) – pre-orders only
Pick up locations in Major Mac, King City, Newmarket,
Angus (Moondance Organics), Barrie, Gravenhurst (ON)
705-331-4594, [email protected], www.ontariofruitlovers.com
TLC Animal Husbandry Inc. (Michael and Phyllis Freiesleben) – pre-orders only
Harriston, ON
519-327-8060, [email protected]
Glencolton Farms – pre-orders only
393889 Concession 2, Durham, ON
Instagram: @glencoltonfarms
Our fruit market is open for regular hours from mid-June to mid-September, after which point we will have some fruit available for online pre-orders for pickup dates (selected at checkout).
For more information about ordering and availability, feel free to contact us.
Check out our fruit harvest guidelines to get a sense of when our fruit is ready. These are based on an average year and, depending on how long or short of a spring season we had, the timing may change.
