Honeyflow Farm    U-Pick Grapes
4939 Mill Rd.    PO Box 275 - Dryden, Michigan 48428 - (810) 796-2344 (Message & Fax)

Ripening Information for Week 5, October 12, 13 & 14 2007

Open Fridays, Saturdays & Sundays only - 9:00 am to 6:00 pm

COMMODITY PRICES
U-Pick Grapes
1-19 lbs. .80/lb.
½ bu (20 lbs.) or more .70/lb.
5 bu (200 lbs.) or more .65/lb.
10 bu. (400 lbs.) or more .55/lb.

(An average person can pick from 1 to 3 bu/hr - bring lots of friends)

2 bushel (80lb)
makes 5+ gal wine

Click here for a printable page that can be taken with you to the vineyard.

Juice and Jelly Grapes (With Seeds)
Lots of Concord ready for jelly, juice or wine!
There still may be some Price left.
 Rows 6 & 7
Muscat is probably gone
 Rows 10 & 50
Delaware grapes are ready now. Very heavy foliage - just pull it back and climb in!.
 Rows 68 to 70
We still have buffalo left in the back of the rows.
 Rows 3, 4 & 47
Seneca is Mostly gone.
 Rows 8 & 9
Niagara grapes are getting thinner but still ok.

Rows 58, 59, 71, 72, 87 to 89 South
Lots of concord in rows 1 & 2 - try the back ends of rows.
 Rows 1, 2, 48 & 49
Steuben grapes are ready now - back ends of the row.
 Row 5

 

Seedless Grapes
The Reliance & Canadice under the bird netting is easy picking - just lift the netting up.
Lots of Canadice ready now & protected under bird netting.
Rows 16 to 19
Most of the Einset is prbably gone.
 Rows 27, 28
Suffolk Red grapes are moslty gone.
 Rows 22 to 26
Himrod grapes are pretty much picked out.
 Rows 20 & 21
Venus grapes have been picked out.
 		Row 30
Reliance grapes are still ok under the bird netting.
 		Rows 13 & 14
Lakemont grapes are pretty much picked out.
 Rows 11 & 12

 

Red Wine Grapes
Lots of Concord ready for jelly, juice or wine!
Foch is pretty much picked out.
 Rows 42 to 46
Baco grapes are pretty much picked out.
 Rows 55-56, 51-54 & 64-67
Frontenac grapes are pretty much picked out.
 Rows 73 to 77
DeChaunac grapes are pretty much picked out.
 Rows 51 to 54, 64 to 67
   

 

Great Weekend to pick White Wine Grapes!
Horizon grapes are ready to pick now.

 Rows 35 & 41
St. Pepin grapes are ready this week.
 Rows 61 to 63
Ther are still some ripe seyval left.
 Rows 31 & 32
Vignoles grapes are ready this week.
 Rows 38 & 39
Delaware grapes are ready now. Very heavy foliage - just pull it back and climb in!.
 Rows 68 to 70
Geneva#5 grapes are ok now - easy to pick.
 Row 15
We still have cayuga left - look at the far ends of the rows.
 Rows 33 & 34
Niagara grapes are getting thinner but still ok.
 Rows 58,59,71,72,87 to 89 South
Chardonnel are mostly gone.
 		Row 60
The Generic white wine grape row is ripe now.
 		Row 37