Good morning from Roth Family Orchard Mudgee

This weekend we are open at the orchard 10am - 3pm for shed sales only

Cherries - sweet merchant variety. These have been delicious this season. We have finished picking that variety and have just a few left in the coolroom for sale. We then have a wait until early-mid next week when the Rons ripen. The later cherries are sizing up beautifully.

We also have some small sized very sweet earlise cherries selling out cheaply.

Apricots - weekend special on 5kg boxes - reduced from $60 to $45. We also have punnets for sale and some snack size apricots. These Lily cot variety are a bit smaller - more like an apricot that those apple sized Wondercots. They over achieved on fruit set and even though we thinned them they still have a very heavy fruit load. Great flavour. We are picking in repeat waves on these - going through to pick the ripest fruit every few days. It's slower but gives us a better chance to pick for flavour. The heat Brough some on quickly.

I'm enjoying the calm of apricots - unlike cherries they continue to ripen off the tree and can be stored at room temperature until ripe. Cherries on the other hand it's a constant rush to keep the cool chain storage as we pick, grade, pack, sell.

Lillycots are our last apricot variety (we picked early varieties to beat fruit fly). We have more to pick this week but that may be close to the end of apricot season here.

After a long day in the orchard and market yesterday it was so good to come back to a crockpot of chicken legs slowly cooked in apricots all day :)

If you had booked for the Sunday and would prefer to come earlier then please email your booking to me and I can change.

Cherry express - We're trying to find time together to plan these logistics and will update soon.

What a week, from frost last week to wind storms and heatwave this week. I hope you were safe from the wild weather. We have some cherries on the ground and expect some bruising but no damage to the trees thankfully. We're enjoying a cool change today and hoping the winds don't build.

It's been great to have a first week of picking - the slower starts before we really ramp up with a full team to pick.

Enjoy your weekend

Ingrid

Ingrid Roth

Cherry grower

Roth Family Orchard

108 Eurunderee Lane Mudgee