Six apples, six grapes, two months of picking.

This popular apple has a beautiful bright red skin mottled with pale green. Its complex flavor is subtly tart, and it is a versatile ingredient for recipes ranging from sweet to savory.

Gala is a wonderful dessert apple originating from New Zealand. Crisp, with a nice blend of sweetness and tartness, and rich in flavor. The skin has reddish-orange stripes over its vibrant yellow canvas. Early harvested, it is picked 2–3 weeks before Red Delicious in September. Gala is a good pollenizer for other apple varieties, and has adapted to cold and warm winter climates.

With its superb and diverse flavor, Jonagold is a connoisseur’s choice: a cross of the Jonathan and Golden Delicious varieties. You can spot them easily by their yellow base with a red-orange blush. Jonagold’s crisp, juicy, subacid flavor makes it great for all kinds of recipes, from salads to applesauce. Our Jonagolds are harvested in September.

In Greek mythology, Ambrosia was ‘the food of the gods’. It is an attractive medium-sized apple, with a pink-tinged orange/red flesh over a yellow background, very much in tune with the modern preference for bi-coloured apples. The flavor is pleasant and sweet, with a wonderful aroma. We harvest Ambrosia apples in early October.

A cross between ‘Enterprise’ and ‘Honeycrisp’. The large, juicy apple has a remarkably firm and crisp texture, which is great for pies and tarts, and its flavor brings ample sweetness and tartness. It is also slow to brown when cut, and keeps its texture and flavor in storage for more than a year. Our Cosmic Crisp are harvested in October.

This deep-red fruit is everything you want in a dessert apple: sweet, juicy and firm. Winecrisp, originally called Coop31, is a modern variety resistant to scab, fire blight and powdery mildew. It was developed by Purdue, Rutgers and the University of Illinois, and introduced to the public in the 1990s. The trees are cold-hardy and ideal for northern gardens, and the fruit stores for up to nine months. It ripens, and is harvested, in mid October.

This lush pink-red skinned grape is used to make white wines. From its native Germany, Siegerrebe translates as “champion vine” or “victory vine”, a reference to its ability to produce record-breaking must weights. Siegerrebe is suited to cooler climates and is harvested early.

Fresh pale green in color, Madeleine Angevine is a white wine grape from the Loire Valley in France, also popular in Germany, Kyrgyzstan and Washington State. This early-ripening grape is a cross between the Madeleine Royale and Précoce de Malingre grapes, and it flourishes in cooler climates. Madeleine Angevine is harvested mid September on Sauk Farm.

Zweigelt is the most widely planted red-wine grape in Austria. A highly popular variety, it is grown in every Austrian wine region; in 2019 Austria was said to have around 16,000 acres of it to meet growing demand. A classic Austrian Zweigelt is richly colored, with a deep, bright core of spiced cherry and raspberry flavors. We harvest our Zweigelt in early October.

In the Concord grape family, their blue-black skin and juiciness make them amazing table grapes. Also known as ‘Mission’, the grape thrives in Western Washington and is often used in desserts and juices. Here at Sauk Farm we harvest Lynden Blue early in the season.

An early-maturing, red, seedless table grape. Medium-sized berries, oval and bright red with a light waxy bloom, are held in attractive, shouldered clusters. The flesh is firm and flavorful, with strawberry overtones: a great late-summer snack, and great in salads. Mid September is harvest time for these beauties.

These picture-perfect berries earn high marks in taste tests, and are also very disease resistant. Jupiter Seedless can produce up to 8–13 tons per acre. As the grapes ripen in early midseason, their reddish-blue color shifts to an other-worldly deep blue. Mid September is the perfect time to harvest them.