We stopped here for two reasons:
1) It is very close to our new house. Yay!
2) The sign on Rt. 2 said " PICK YOUR OWN PEACHES".
MMMh, I love peaches, and so does my partner in crime. So we drove to the orchard, and approached the stand where two older ladies were perched. This is where it becomes sad.
I asked what a tote of peaches costs to pick, and she informed me- -rather rudely : " We ain't doing peaches this year. You can pick nectarines if you want. "
Okay, so we decided to pick Nectarines, that's when I noticed they had blackberries, and I love blackberries, so I asked to pick a container of blackberries ( Each container is 5.50, btw. )
However that's when I was brashly informed that it will be 10.50, because we had 2 people in our party and apparently they don't trust you to go in with a friend and only pick one pint worth of blackberries. We informed her that my fiance doesn't like blackberries, and he could stay behind. She then said " Nope, you have to buy two pints. "
Listen, I just wanted one god damn pint of blackberries. So instead of giving in, I told her forget about it, and we just went to go pick nectarines.
We were told the Nectarines were along the edge of the apples and peaches, but when we came across the rather Pleasant signage ( Sarcasm), there was nothing mentioned about nectarines. Searching high and low, we had to go back to the woman and ask where the damned nectarines were.
We were then informed that if you go back to where the blackberries were, there would be a sign. If you could only see the layout of this place, you'd probably understand what a headache it was to be betrayed by poor and "Pleasant" signage.
SO upon passing the plentiful grove of blackberries. I ATE SOME. TAKE THAT STINGY FARM. I ALSO ATE AN APPLE AND TWO NECTARINES.
NOM NOM NOM.
Ahem. Did I mention that the peach trees were so loaded in peaches it was like looking green clouds with peaches decorating them. . .Or something like that.
SO after we finished with the nectarines, we went back to the stand and I bought one of their fruit fly, and yellow jacket covered peaches ( Which was $2.00). While buying, I curiously asked why they weren't letting people pick the peaches this year, in which the woman snapped at me:
" Cause' their ain't enough for the general public. "
Okay, charming. SO you just want to make hand over fist selling your peaches to markets. Then why the hell do you have your sign out on a major road claiming "Pick your own peaches, peach orchard " ???
One more thing about the peaches, when walking by the orchard there was signs claiming: " CHEMICAL APPLIED. DO NOT PICK". Ironically, when you looked at all their fruits, you could see the chemical dusted upon them. Shouldn't you have a sign out that says " Chemical applied to all fruit?"
Urgh, I wish I could say I won't be going back to this place, but it's so close and I do love picking apples. read more