Aloha is now shipping fresh Palisade peaches & pears – grown organically with aloha! Choose between 24 – 12 – 9 shippers.
Note that Aloha ships fresh fruit ONLY by FedEx 2nd Day, to ensure fresh fruit upon arrival.
During check-out, make sure you select 2nd Day at every step. Otherwise we will have to cancel your order and refund your money. We ship fresh fruit within 7-10 working days, on Monday – Wednesday to get them to you with a minimum amount of time in transit.
Thank you – and enjoy the sweet summer taste of peaches & pears. Direct from our orchard to you.
Aloha Organic Fruit’s goal to offer you a wider selection of delicious Palisade fruit grown organically is coming to “fruition”
Cleared land ready for planting peaches & nectarines
We leased 6 acres. We’ll plant white and red cherries to augment the existing peach orchard.
We’re planting 4 new varieties of peaches where old peach trees were pulled out, so we’ll have more ripe peaches throughout a longer season.
New installation of heaters will help protect our orchards during spring frosts.
Slow work – the art of pruning 4000 peach trees
What happens fall – winter – spring?
Peach trees need care year ’round to thrive. In fall after harvest, we spread compost throughout the orchard. Pruning trees begins in December. Snowmelt waters in the nutrients and gives the trees what they need to form buds. To control bugs we confuse them by hanging pheremone mating disruptors in the trees. By April, rows of heaters are standing ready to protect the vulnerable trees during spring frosts.
To control bugs, using mating distruptors is more work, but growing organic is what we want to do
April… the scary month
Growing peaches organically is challenging, then factor in weather. This winter is the coldest on record since 1988. April is known for volatile temperatures, and when it is windy, heaters and wind machines aren’t very effective. Peach blossoms are ready to pop – keep your fingers crossed for a good crop!
Upcoming Palisade events
Palisade International Honeybee Festival – April 12-13
Yech! Dealing with spring thaw mud on the farm
Friday: Blue Pig Gallery hosts bee-themed show, demos, mead (honey wine) tasting.
Saturday: A hive of activity for entire family downtown on the Town Plaza: Bee dancers, Spelling Bee, food & vendor booths, demos, speakers. Meadery tours, free Bee Bus.
The Fourth of July has come and gone. Summer is here with all the tasty fruits and vegetables that we grow here on the Western Slope. Our farm store is open from 10:00 to 5:00 every day. The weekends find us at the local Farmer’s Markets. Saturday is Fruita, Sunday is Palisade. Oh! And Friday afternoon we are at Mesa State with a market from 11:00 to 2:00. Right now we are featuring our early PF#1 peach; sweet and juicy
Aloha is now shipping fresh Palisade peaches & pears – grown organically with aloha! Choose between 24 – 12 – 9 shippers.
