{"title":"Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eOur collection of heirloom apples sold by the pound for pick up at our farm stand locations.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"red-gravenstein-apples","title":"Red Gravenstein Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Red Gravenstein Apple is a sport (genetic mutation) of the Gravenstein, which is considered by many to be one of the best all-around apples with a sweet, tart flavor and is especially good for baking and cooking.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGravenstein was imported into Denmark by Count Frederik the Younger (1662-1708), who found it at the monastery L’Abaye de Hautcombe near Lac du Borget in Savoyen. He brought the apple home to his family's Gråsten Palace, and the apple cultivar was named \"Gråsten\" or “Gravenstein.” \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Gravenstein apple was introduced to western North America in the early 19th century, perhaps by Russian fur traders, who are said to have planted a tree at Fort Ross in 1811. The Gravenstein apple was introduced to the Canadian province of Nova Scotia in the 19th century. Charles Ramage Prescott, the father of the Nova Scotian apple industry, grew Nova Scotia's first Gravenstein trees in his orchard at Acacia Grove.  Since then, this apple has spread throughout North America and is particularly beloved in California, especially Sonoma County which features the Gravestein Highway.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe skin of this apple is red with green stripes. The flesh is crisp, juicy, finely grained, and light yellow.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618800611533,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/A66A372D-C26F-4028-BD5E-A182C697AF31.jpg?v=1787944777"},{"product_id":"orleans-reinette-apples","title":"Orleans Reinette Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Orleans Reinette was first mentioned growing in the lowlands of France in 1776, although the exact parentage is unknown. The word \"reinette” likely comes from the Latin word renatus, meaning “rebirth,” and does not derive from the French word for “queen.” It refers to several French apple varieties, including the Orleans Reinette. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOrleans Reinette apples are medium-sized, plump apples with yellowish-green skin, orange russet, and a red blush. The skin is a rough classic russet texture, and very crunchy. The texture of the flesh tends to be dry and dense. The flavor is similar to sweet oranges, tangerines, or other citrus, and has a nutty finish. Overall, the flavor is very complex—it goes well with buttery, nutty cheeses such as raw milk Swiss-style cheese.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791470276813,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/75A86EE2-BCE7-4EDC-9653-4481BE957320.jpg?v=1788566717"},{"product_id":"golden-delicious-apples","title":"Golden Delicious Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis cultivar is a chance seedling possibly a hybrid of Grimes Golden and Golden Reinette. The original tree was found on the Mullins' family farm in Clay County, West Virginia, United States and was locally known as Mullin's Yellow Seedling and Annit apple. Anderson Mullins sold the tree and propagation rights to Stark Brothers Nurseries for $5000, which first marketed it as a companion of their Red Delicious in 1914. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGolden Delicious apples are pale green to golden yellow in color and speckled with small spots. They are small to medium in size, and tend to be conical or oblong in shape. Golden Delicious apples are firm, crisp, and white-fleshed. These apples have a balanced sweet-tart aromatic flavor, with honey overtones.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791470538957,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/C658EBAE-9BA7-431B-A726-A096B54E4FA9.jpg?v=1788567914"},{"product_id":"wickson-apples","title":"Wickson Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Wickson is a crab apple, but unlike most crab apples, it is sweet enough be eaten without cooking. In fact, the Wickson scores exceptionally high in both sugar and acid, making it one of the more complex apple flavors. It’s small size makes it popular with children, for it appears to be a wee fairy apple when fully mature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt was developed by California plant breeder Albert Etter in 1944 in Ettersburg, California, as a cider apple. However, it is a great fresh eating apple and delightful in baked goods as well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618778165453,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/IMG-0400.jpg?v=1787933505"},{"product_id":"rubinette-apples-1","title":"Rubinette Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Rubinette is considered by many the best-flavored apple. It is a  cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Rubinette apple was developed over a period of eighteen years in Rafz, Switzerland by a man named Walter Hauenstein. It was introduced in 1964, but not released until 1982. The apple was trademarked as 'Rafzubin', as a nod to its city of origin, and can be found under this moniker in Switzerland. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRubinette's flavor comes almost primarily from Cox's Orange Pippin, but shape similar to Golden Delicious. This apple has an unsurpassed balance of sweetness and sharpness with the Cox's aromatic qualities. There are rich flavors of oranges and lemons, plus a little nuttiness and vanilla as well.  The fruit is medium sized with bright red striping over golden ground color and slight russeting. It’s pretty and tasty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791470047437,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/3648AF12-2CD0-4A19-8562-540814CC11E5.jpg?v=1788566413"},{"product_id":"newtown-pippin-apples","title":"Newton Pippin Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003eNewton Pippin is an antique American apple variety with a history going back more than 250 years. It is not always the prettiest apple you ever saw, but it is one of the best-flavored - aromatic with plenty of acid and pleasantly refreshing, and sometimes a pineapple-like note. The flesh is dense, crisp and juicy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNewton Pippin is the historical apple of our growing region, the Pajaro Valley on the central coast of California. In the 1920s when this area was first developed by farmers, almost everyone grew Newton Pippin apples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791112843469,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/7376D6F7-8864-4A6E-862F-AC47130607C4.jpg?v=1788566047"},{"product_id":"skinner-seedling-apples","title":"Skinner Seedling Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJudge Henry Chapman Skinner brought apple seeds from a Newtown Pippin across the country by wagon in 1849. He planted thirteen seeds along Coyote Creek in San Jose. Only two seedlings survived. One became the Skinner's Seedling. The fruit was first shown at a local agricultural fair in September 1857 and later grown commercially in Northern California.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSweet with a brisk, sprightly subacid twist. Great for eating, baking, and juicing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618778951885,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/A437E1E4-3FE1-426E-B3D1-6C4B231D640C.jpg?v=1787934148"},{"product_id":"winter-banana-apples","title":"Winter Banana Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Winter Banana tree is a gorgeous apple. The Winter Banana apple tree originated on the David Flory farm in Indiana, around 1876. The Winter Banana apple variety was later introduced by the Greening Brothers Nursery of Monroe, Michigan, in 1890. The fruit is large, clear pale yellow, bright finish, one side usually blushed with a delicate pink. The flesh of Winter Banana apples are moderately firm, a little coarse, tender, mild, subacid, characteristically aromatic. Good quality. Better eating than cooking. Widely grown in mild winter areas on the West Coast.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618795270349,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/IMG-0398.jpg?v=1787941876"},{"product_id":"ida-red-apples","title":"Ida Red Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Idared apple is a large, solid, strikingly bright red fruit. The Idared apple is white fleshed, crisp, fine-grained and aromatic with fine processing qualities. Idared apple is excellent for baking, salads, dipping, sauces, or simply eating fresh out of hand. One of the best all around apples trees. With a sweetly tart taste, Idared apples will remain crisp and juicy for months after picking. The texture holds up well when baking. The Idared apple tree blooms early, but ripens late. Excellent keeper, improves in storage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618797662413,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/C33DF03C-948E-49E8-8AA5-AFF62E701151.jpg?v=1787943301"},{"product_id":"yellow-bellflower-apples","title":"Yellow Bellflower Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMystery surrounds this apple because no one documented when it originated; however, in 1817 Coxe reported “The original tree at Burlington, New Jersey was large and old.” The Yellow Bellflower apple tree is an old colonial fruit. It was stated that one of the grafted trees carried across the U.S. was a Yellow Bellflower apple tree that was reported in Oregon in 1847. A favorite for baked apples. The Yellow Bellflower apple variety has fruit that's quite variable in size, with attractive lemon yellow color and pinkish-blush in sunny exposures. 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The skin colour is highly variable depending on the growing conditions. On some sites it is a green russet resembling Ashmead's Kernel; on others it is red and smooth skinned with patches of russet; sometimes there are patches of different colours. Deacon's nursery provides the best description: \"yellow flushed red, with some russet\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe taste and shape are distinctive, however, and the variety is usually easier to identify than describe, unless (as occasionally happens) the russet is entirely absent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe flesh is off-white, rather dry and concentrated in flavour, quite sharp until fully ripe, with hints of citrus; the 'nutty' flavour associated with some russets is absent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe apple keeps in good condition for three to four months. The acidity declines but the flavour remains strong.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618799268045,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/B3EDE4B6-F24B-42F1-A6AA-2F8DAFD8B867.jpg?v=1787944097"},{"product_id":"golden-noble-apples","title":"Golden Noble Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Golden Noble apple tree was discovered in an old orchard on a country estate in Norfolk in 1820. Handsome golden cooker, one of the very best. Sharp and well flavored, making it ideal for pies. When baked has a creamy texture and needs very little sugar. The Golden Noble apple is a handsome pure yellow fruit with creamy white flesh and excellent texture. Golden Noble apple trees are upright, spreading and moderately vigorous. A special garden tree because of the clear yellow glow of the apples in green foliage and moderate size. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618800316621,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/9702B096-75A7-4349-A57E-BF6908CF2E71.jpg?v=1787944542"},{"product_id":"grimes-golden-apples","title":"Grimes Golden Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Grimes Golden apple tree was found at a cider mill and nursery established by John Chapman back in the early 1800's. The Grimes Golden apple is a rich, spicy, tangy, with a honeyed sweet flavor that's crisp and sharp. Simply unforgettable packed in a simple light yellow skin. More complex flavor than its offspring Golden Delicious. Direct marketers seek out this fruit due to its superior dessert quality. The Grimes Golden apple trees are not as common as it once was, but you will still find it here and there. Excellent pollinizer with a long bloom period. Best grown in warmer climates. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48618801103053,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/E5F152CF-7E00-4330-862B-C0ABBB3DC1BF.jpg?v=1787944965"},{"product_id":"bell-de-boskoop-apple","title":"Bell de Boskoop Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBelle De Boskoop apple tree originated from seed in 1856 in the nursery of the Ottlander family in Boskoop, Holland. The Belle de Boskoop apple is a large greenish-yellow fruit with rough skin and dark red blush on exposed fruits. Crisp, tangy, highly aromatic flesh that sweetens in storage or left hanging late on tree. The Belle de Boskoop apple tree produces an outstanding, all-purpose, tart apple with a high acid content. Long sought after by chefs and cider makers for its sharp flavor allowing it to hold up in the oven and bottle.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791405265101,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/318745A6-A92F-4FBC-8F2B-A72C17EB3A09.jpg?v=1788565772"},{"product_id":"white-pearmain-apples","title":"White Pearmain Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhite Pearmain apple tree is one of oldest known English apples. The White Pearmain is medium in size, uniform in shape, and possesses light green skin, usually flushed red on one side. The sweet and pleasantly aromatic flesh is firm, fine-grained and crisp; an excellent dessert apple with pear undertones when left to mellow in storage. White Pearmain apple tree is a vigorous, self-fertile variety that also serves as a great pollinizer for other apple trees.White Pearmain is well adapted to coastal districts out west and the the hot interiors. Stores well. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791469523149,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/F8CBB7F7-5C48-4DB4-BD9A-30593261E3F4.jpg?v=1788566142"},{"product_id":"waltana-apples","title":"Waltana Apples","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlbert Etter is credited with selecting this exceptionally late winter apple, a seedling of Wagener apple tree. Waltana apples are a medium to large, variable sized green apple with thin red striping and crisp, firm juicy flesh. The Waltana apple tree requires a very long growing season to attain it's best flavor.  The Waltana apples hang well into winter after most of the leaves have fallen. Don't despair,  the fruit improves in flavor after being hit by fall frost. Excellent for cooking and eating of hand. 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Hauer Pippin apple tree is thought to be a hybrid of a famous English apple, the Cox Orange Pippin and a Yellow Bellflower since both varieties were growing nearby where the original seedling was discovered in Santa Cruz in 1890's. In most climates Hauer Pippin apples are green with a dark red blush with prominent white spots. Great multi-purpose apple, best as a dessert apple, keeps flavor and shape when cooked also juicy with sharpness for well balanced cider.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cabrillo Cottage Farms and Birdsong Orchards","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":48791470473421,"sku":null,"price":3.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0554\/6944\/1229\/files\/7EC4A941-EC17-4821-A6A6-B1C459304A09.jpg?v=1788567113"},{"product_id":"fuji-apples","title":"Fuji Apples","description":"\u003cp id=\"mwBA\"\u003eThe Fuji Apple is an apple cultimately developed by growers at the TYohoku Research\u003cspan about=\"#mwt5\"\u003e Station of the Ministry of Agriculture \u003c\/span\u003ein Fujisaki\u003ca rel=\"mw:WikiLink\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fujisaki,_Aomori\" title=\"Fujisaki, Aomori\" id=\"mwCg\"\u003e, \u003c\/a\u003eAomari, Japan, in 1939. It originated as a cross between two American apple varieties—the Red Delicious and Ralls Janet apples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp id=\"mwFQ\"\u003eThe Fuji was named and brought to market in 1962; its name is derived from the first part of the town where it was developed: Fujisaki. Its flavor is sweet and its texture is crisp. 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