Saturday, September 5, 2009

WOW

What a great weekend to visit the orchard!!! We opened up the orchard today at noon, and had the parking lot filled in a minute and a half!!! I really enjoyed seeing all the new visitors come out and enjoy the orchard and enjoy my BBQ. Even met a few new "regulars" that will be coming out in the future for some more BBQ. I have had some rave reviews of my "Axle Grease" BBQ sauce which I developed for use at the orchard. It is the only place I use it! I kinda wish I would have concocted this recipe back in my BBQ competition days!!!

We were able to wrap up the day with some fishing in the orchard's pond! Overall, an exceptional day..oh yeah, and whoever said anything about global warming??? I am really starting to get concerned about this winter. I can hardly recall many days over the 95 degree mark...and as of late, I can hardly remember what an 80 degree day felt like!!! We are loving it!

The orchard should be open in another 2 weeks, hope to see you all out there for some BBQ, and don't forget our organic produce as well!!!

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Orchard Season

We are in full swing now at Wagon Wheel Orchard! We have been open the last few weekends and things are looking great! Lots of apples are starting to ripen up. Now that we are in the fall season, I will be bringing pulled pork out to the orchard most weekends. I smoked 2 pork butts for last weekend and sold them out in 3 hours.

We will be open this weekend, so check out the Wagon Wheel Orchard blogspot for hours, as well as which varieties of apples we will be picking this weekend!

The produce has finally started to come out of the garden...we have had some tomatoes and green bell peppers as well as a handful of Anaheim peppers. As normal, we have a plethora of Sweet Banana peppers available. All of my produce is organically grown!!! Have a great week and we will see you at the orchard this weekend!