Description
Valley Flora Farm (Langlois) grows a number of different types of apple, and, depending on the time of year, those varieties will include:
Late Summer (beginning in August)
- Williams Pride (medium-large apple, dark red with crispy white innards and tart flavor; it’s not unusual for the deep red color of the skin to bleed into the flesh, producing an attractive marbled appearance)
- Wenatchee Early (likely an heirloom apple, with green and red skins, sweet and crispy)
- Chehalis (resembles Golden Delicious in looks and flavor but the fruit is larger and crisper)
- Sansa (medium-large with red striped yellow skin, yellow flesh. Sweet like Gala, but with some tartness to it)
- Akane (especially fine red dessert apple derived from Jonathan. Sweet, rich, spicy flavor)
Fall (late September through October/November)
- Liberty (yellow skin with red overtones, crisp white flesh, a harmonious sweet-tart taste)
- Topaz (crispy, medium to large apples with a distinctive, sweet-tart flavor often compared to Honeycrisp)
- Honeycrisp (pleasant sweet-tart flavor that varies in strength depending upon the maturity of the apple)
- Cox’s Orange Pippin (stripey orange/red/green skin with fantastic, complex flavor. An old-timey variety)
- Idared (large, bright red apple with white flesh, known for their sweet-tart flavor and crisp texture)
- Fiesta (medium sized fresh eating apple with red/orange/yellow flesh, very sweet and juicy)
- Sweet Sixteen (red-striped skin with crisp juicy texture and exotic yellow flesh. Excellent for eating, cooking)
- Pinova (exquisite for pie: Pinovas soften to silk without turning to mush when baked and have just the right balance of sweet and tart to make a perfect pie. They are also quite tasty for fresh eating)
- Stayman Winesap (firm yellow flesh; crisp texture; tart, rich wine-like taste. Some say it smells like cinnamon)
- Fuji (satisfying crunch and juiciness to them; fairly sweet with only a slight tartness)
- Gold Rush (last one of the season, and the BEST storage apple ever, in both ours AND Valley Flora’s opinion! Wonderful sweet-tart flavor, very juicy and crunchy, and stays that way for a long time…)
The varieties change about every week to 10 days, and you can count on the fact that ALL of Valley Flora’s apples are crisp, juicy, and sweetly tangy – AND grown using organic practices. Don’t be afraid to try a pound or two – it’s highly unlikely you’ll be disappointed… 🙂
