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We are a small family-owned orchard located in the driftless area of the Kickapoo River Valley, Crawford County, Wisconsin. Located 3 1/2 miles east of Gays Mills on Hwy. 171. Phone: (608) 735-4637. Fax: 608-735-4837. Wisconsin retail and wholesale apples and apple cider, also apple-cherry cider, red tart cherries, red raspberries and Bluebell grapes. Pasteurized apple cider. Bakery and Gift Shop, with an orchard overlook. Get lost - in our Sunflower Corn Maze. The retail salesroom is closed for the season. New apple and cherry recipes on the Recipes of the Month link on the left. Thanks to all who came to visit our orchard in 2007, we hope to see you starting July, 2008. Scroll down to the Calendar for orchard dates and 2008 local festival dates. Wisconsin Pest Bulletin, click on degree days May 8, 08 - Left Photo Montmorency red tart cherry just starting to bloom. Right photo: Empire apples just coming into pink stage.
May 6, 2008 - Left photo, Montmorency, red tart cherry. Right photo Macoun apple.
May 5, 2008 Left: Montmorency Cherry. Right: Empire, still tight cluster, pre-pink. The blossoms are about 5-7 days behind last year. Weather and temperature determines the date of bloom, we will hope that will be Mother's Day Weekend - but no guarantee! New photos will be posted as the buds progress. Explore the links on the left. The Variety List link is updated - sometimes daily during harvest season. The Recipes of the Month page is changed monthly with new recipes. Both the Local Interests page and Links page have information for area visitors.ORCHARD PRACTICES: We at Kickapoo Orchard are dedicated to bringing you the best quality and the safest apples and cider that we can. In accomplishing this objective we incorporate the best methods, knowledge and technologies that are available to us. We use IPM (Integrated Pest Management) practices to monitor insects and diseases so that we can apply the appropriate control with the minimum amount of a pesticide that is required - at the right time to control the target. The goal of IPM is not to eradicate all insects and diseases, but to control to a level of damage that can be tolerated. Cultural practices such as pruning, cultivation and mowing are also used. Visual traps, bait traps, and pheromone traps are deployed for specific insects, and an on-site weather station that monitors temperature, humidity, leaf wetness and rainfall totals provides information about probable insect and disease development. We inspect our orchard and also use the services of an Entomologist to survey for beneficial as well as damaging insects, and developing disease. We are in contact with him on a weekly basis, more often when necessary. The result of this careful monitoring is that the minimum amount of a specific chemical applied at the right time to target a disease or a pest at the best possible time to control the amount of damage. Tart cherry concentrate in pint and 1/2 gallon size is available for order on the Wisconsin Gift Box link. Order now from our Gift Box store using Pay Pal or credit card. For a price on a 4 gallon bucket drop shipped to your address, use the web site or cider email link. We have made arrangements to drop-ship 4 gallon buckets of cherry concentrate to your home. Use the web site email address on the left, we will get back to you with the total price including shipping costs. An apple a day really does help keep the doctor away. Apples contain flavinoids, part of a group of compounds that are antioxidants. The antioxidant power of an apple is equal to more than 1,500 milligrams of vitamin C. A Women's Health Study of 40,000 U.S. women found that women who at one apple per day developed 22 percent less heart disease. A Nurses' Healthy study showed that daily apple consumption was linked to 37% lower risk of lung cancer. "Cloudy" apple cider, which has more solids, contains a higher amount of antioxidants than does clear cider or reconstituted apple concentrate. Kickapoo Orchard Bakery - We are the home of the original "apple pizza," in addition we make many other pizzas and pies, cookies, turnovers, soup and sandwiches along with fresh hot coffee, tea and cider. All can be enjoyed at a table overlooking the orchard.
OUR APPLE PIZZA - pie crust covered with a heaping layer of our apples, the best that are in season, next a liberal heaping of our special topping that includes slivered almonds, sugar and spices - all baked until golden brown. When cooled it is drizzled with a layer of creamy dark caramel. Click on the Cherries link on the left for a history and culinary information page about cherries. Ruby-red tart cherries are bursting with health benefits. They contain powerful antioxidants, including melatonin. The combination of melatonin and other antioxidants in tart cherries may be the secret of the natural pain relief of tart cherries. To add your name to the Cherry/Raspberry Newsletter mailing list for 2008, click on the Retail email link on the left, be sure to include complete address. Remember, for good health: Eat Your Colors! ORCHARD AND LOCAL CALENDAR EVENTS May - The salesroom is not usually open, but check this web site starting in late April for photos of the developing blossoms. Full bloom is usually sometime the first week in May, and is beautiful sight if you can drive by. May 9 - 11 Gays Mills Folk Festival of Music and Dance June 14 - 15 Boscobel, Art by the Stream July 1- Salesroom will open first week in July 2008. We open the season with picked and pick your own red tart cherries & raspberries, also Wisconsin Apple cider and apple cherry cider is in the salesroom. July 10 - 13 Crawford County Fair Gays Mills August- Early apples, click on the Variety List link on the left. This list is updated as soon as each variety is picked and available in the salesroom, the date each variety is sold out is also entered. The parentage and uses of each variety is listed. Grape expectations - Bluebell grapes are ready to be picked mid-August. Our unique Wisconsin sunflower/corn maze opens mid-August. August 1 - 3 Civil War Reenactment in Boscobel Muskets and Memories August 15-16 Larry Fest, Kickapoo Valley Acoustic Music September - mid season apple harvest. Bluebells grapes ready late August to mid-September. They make excellent eating, and some customers use them to make jelly and wine. Apple gift box shipments start late September. September 20 - 21 Driftless Area Art Festival Soldiers Grove September 27 - 28 Gays Mills Apple Festival information SWISS FAMILY SMOKEHOUSE will be in the salesroom sampling their fine cheese and sausage on several weekends during the harvest season.. October - Peak of apple harvest and fall colors. SWISS FAMILY SMOKEHOUSE will be sampling their fine cheese and sausage in 2008.. Annual Apple Discount Days start Wednesday, November 1, 2007, and continue until closing on the day before Thanksgiving. Closing 5:00 PM, Wednesday, November 26, 2008 the day before Thanksgiving..\ December 1. 2008, First Monday in December, last shipment of apple gift boxes. Winter - We are plowing snow, pruning, fixing equipment, and getting ready for next season. RETAIL SALESROOM In our salesroom and in our Wisconsin gift packs we emphasize Wisconsin products: chocolate covered dried cherries, dried cherry nut mix, Kickapoo Honey Farms apple blossom honey; maple syrup, mustards, barbecue sauce from Maple Hollow. We stock fine cheese, Landjaeger, and sausages from Swiss Family; local Amish candy, candy from Baraboo Candy; pancake, muffin and cookie mixes from Willow Creek Mills, an extensive selection of jams, preserves, apple butters, and jellies from Slack of Lodi, Wisconsin, and Indian Corn, Original Kettle Corn, from Muscoda.
KICKAPOO ORCHARD APPLE CIDER We press our cider using a JWI 24" stainless steel continuous belt press capable of producing 500 to 700 gallons an hour. We have a commitment to using handpicked quality, sorted and washed apples, following a HACCP plan, to produce healthy refreshing ciders. Our cider is trucked by tanker to either Citrus Systems Juice Plant of Madison, WI, or Citrus Systems, Hopkins, MN, to be pasteurized and bottled and distributed to an expanding market. Our cider can be labeled with your label or our Kickapoo Orchard label, and picked up either by you or Kickapoo Orchard for distribution and sale. We will continue to produce unpasteurized cider for all those who continue to enjoy it, available only at our retail salesroom. . We also provide raw cider to the small and large wine makers. Contact us for wholesale cider, bottled, or by the barrel or the 4,00 o 5,000 gallon tanker. 24" Hoesch filter for sale, Use for filtering wine, juice or water. Contact Bill Meyer using email address below.
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