Homemade Peach Ice Cream

Hope you made it out to the orchard this weekend. The ladies of the Albemarle/Charlottesville Pilot Club once again outdid themselves with some delicious homemade peach ice cream! It's a win-win-win - Chiles Peach Orchard donates the peaches, the ladies of the Pilot Club make and sell the ice cream to fund their community service projects, and our customers come out in droves to enjoy this amazing treat! They made 70 gallons of ice cream this year, and sold out by the end of the weekend!

Peach season is in full swing now, with gorgeous freestone peaches available for picking or buying ready-picked. We'll have peaches a few more weeks, so come on out. Thanks for helping make it a great summer here at Chiles Peach Orchard!

Peach Season in Full Swing

It's been a great couple of weeks of peach picking! Wonderful weather (warm, not humid), a couple of good rains, and a fantastic crop so far. We've had some terrific folks visiting us this summer!

There are still lots of wonderful peaches to pick, and we'll be picking for several more weeks! We're still in clingstone peaches; freestones will be ripe by late July and early August.

We've got some great gift items and local crafts in our farm market - if you haven't shopped with us lately, come on by!

Pick Your Own Peaches

Peach Season is upon us! We are picking Sentry, a delicious yellow cling-stone peach. Freestones will ripen in late July.

Tweet, Tweet

Okay, guys, we are now on Twitter! Become a follower so you'll know when the donuts are hot, when the peaches are ripe, and if there are any celebrity sightings.........

http://www.twitter.com/ChilesPeachOrch

Chiles Peach Orchard in the News

Our local monthly paper, The Crozet Gazette, featured the Girl Scout event we held back in May. Thanks for the coverage, Gazette! Click the link below for the June edition - you can read about this story (page 8), as well as other news in Crozet and Western Albemarle County.

http://www.crozetgazette.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/crozet-gazette-june-09.pdf

Staff Member Accomplishments!

3 of our summer staff at Chiles Peach Orchard graduated from Western Albemarle High School tonight! Courtlyn and Lizzy are pictured, and Leah escaped before I could get her picture. Congrats and Best Wishes to Courtlyn, Lizzy, and Leah! Coincidentally, all 3 will be attending VCU in Richmond begining in August. Be sure to congratulate them next time you're in the market!

The peaches are growing!

We're anxiously watching the peaches grow here at Chiles Peach Orchard! Our crews have been through the orchard, thinning the smaller peaches off the trees, so that those that are left can grow to a good size (did you know that peach growers generally have to thin off about 85%-90% of the growing peaches?). We should have some early peaches ready to harvest in about 3 weeks. The peaches pictured here need a little more time than that!

Strawberry picking is still happening - the berries are GREAT this week! Time is ticking away on strawberry season, so hurry out to get yours soon!