The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

— Moliere

We really like growing raspberries. They’re hard to pick, and the wasps like them just as much as we do, but in the end we think they are worth every scratch and sting. Our raspberries are available fresh, with pick your own weeks in season, frozen year round, and are featured in our most popular seeded raspberry jam.

We are also growing blueberries, honeyberries (haskaps), strawberries, red and black currants, gooseberries, elderberries, aronia, and experimenting with grapes and cranberries. We’ve planted a small orchard of 20 or so varieties of apples, pears, plums, and delicious tart cherries. Our trees are still young and not bearing much yet, apart from the cherries, which grow with abandon here. But we’re patient, and looking forward to a future of abundant fresh and frozen fruit, jams and jellies, and cider.