I'm going to reply to this, mainly to see if it works, as I'm new on here. I have a question for anyone with a u-pick orchard. Do the kids do a lot damage to the trees and fruit, making heavy supervision necessary? I just planted a small high density orchard of about an acre and a half. Would a small u-pick operation be worth the hassles? Thanks for any input, Hugh
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Con.Traas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Jon and friends, > I get the feeling the article or author is a bit mixed up, and does not > know exactly what point is the main one. However, there is no doubt that > all things American make their way across to this side of the pond > sooner or later, and demand for U-pick apples (or Pick Your Own as we > call it here) is much greater than ever before, so in that way we are > following in your footsteps. > Not everyone that comes to pick is a yuppy though, and mostly it is just > nice innocent entertainment for families with younger children. > Personally I think that if we as growers engage with the children, these > people will have happy memories of apples when they grow older, and > hopefully better eating habits than they would otherwise have. > On the issue of cost, I think it is probably more expensive to organise > for people to come and do U-pick than simply to go out with your orchard > crew and pick the apples yourself. > Con Traas > > _______________________________________________ > apple-crop mailing list > [email protected] > http://virtualorchard.net/mailman/listinfo/apple-crop >
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