Ruby Glen Orchard

PSA: Quiz night!

Whether you are the competitive sort, or simply the kind to enjoy a night out, then an upcoming Quiz night may be a fun thing to do!
I am quiz mastering an evening....

Date: Friday 28th June
Time: 7pm-9pm
Where: All Saints Church Hall (cnr Church Road and Puketapu Road, Taradale)
Cost : $10pp plus loose change to "buy an answer"
Why: to support ongoing work with cyclone Gabrielle relief, to support youth initiatives, and to have some fun!

BYO drinks and brain food

The shop will be closing for the season from this Sunday 28th April. We will reopen in November.

Tip crop raspberries now available from the shop.
Tree ripened Taylor's Gold pear special- $2.00/kg- also available.
Still a good supply of feijoas, figs, walnuts and chestnuts. 🍂

Easter hours:
Closed on Good Friday and Easter Sunday. Otherwise open from 8.30am-5.30pm 🥚🐰

While the table grape season is now over, we still have the following available from the shop:
Figs, feijoas, pears, chestnuts, walnuts and the last of the raspberries.

Chestnuts are now available from the shop 🌰🌰

Please can the lady who thought she'd lost a gold watch here while doing PYO please make contact with me.

The first of the figs are now available - both red centred Misa and cream centered Brown Turkey.
Raspberries are still available - fresh sales and PYO.
Please note that the shop will be closed for the afternoon this Saturday, 3rd March.

As well as raspberries, blueberries and blackberries we now have
Black Boy peaches, Omega Plums, Angelino plums (yellow flesh), table grapes (black and green), and lemons & lemonades. Frozen berries, including Berry Combo, are also available.

We will attempt to keep PYO raspberries, blueberries and blackberries open into the afternoon each day, but recommend you come in the mornings.

Owing to being picked out there will be no PYO tomorrow (Monday 5th). The shop will be open from 8.00am until noon tomorrow.
We now have frozen blueberries (spray free) available.
Next PYO opportunity will be on Wednesday 7th, as we'll be closed on Waitangi Day.

PYO hours for Sunday 4th and Monday 5th - 8.00am until 12.00 noon
Shop hours - 8.00am until 4.00pm
We will be CLOSED on Waitangi Day (Tuesday 6th).
Free lemons are now available.

We hope the wet weather is behind us, so we will now be open daily from 8.00am-4.00pm for PYO and shop sales.
PYO raspberries, blueberries and blackberries have good volumes.
Stocks of frozen berries, however, are low and we suggest you secure these sooner rather than later to avoid disappointment.
The last of the Black Doris Plums and the last of the lemons are available at the shop.
Table grapes and Omega Plums will, hopefully, be available from this weekend 🙂

Open each morning this week from 8am - 12:30pm for PYO and fresh sales of raspberries, blueberries and blackberries with fresh sales also of Black Doris Plums

We'll be open as a one off tomorrow morning (Saturday) with PYO blueberries, raspberries and blackberries.

Then hopefully more consistent availability from early next week. Keep watching!

This first part of our harvest is now over. We will reopen with the second part of our harvest in late Jan/early Feb. We will have raspberries, blueberries and blackberries for PYO and fresh sales.
From early Feb we will also have fresh sales of table grapes, Black Doris plums and peacharines We will post updates as fruit ripens and becomes available.

Thank you for your support over the last 6 weeks of harvest. It has been wonderful to have your support following a challenging year of wet weather. We look forward to seeing you during the second part of harvest - with hopefully blue sky and sunshine 🤞🌞

Due to demand and the warm weather that has ripened more berries, we will open for tomorrow morning from 7.30am until midday for PYO raspberries only, and the purchase of frozen berries.

Lemons!
Free from the shop today and tomorrow 😊🍋

The rain has freshened the orchard up. PYO will be open this morning and tomorrow morning 👌

The first part of our season is coming to an end, earlier than expected 😢

PYO will be open from 7.30am until 10.30am (or earlier based on demand).

The shop will close from this Saturday or Sunday, based on availability of fruit.

Our new season will start in late January 😊

Happy New Year! 🎉
We are closed tomorrow, reopen on Tuesday 2nd from 7:30am for PYO

While PYO raspberries, boysenberries and blackberries will stay open, blueberry PYO is now closed until our late crop ripens in early February.

PYO berries opens from 7:30am-midday each day, unless picked out earlier.

Please note we will be closed on Jan 1st.

Thank you for your support in the lead up to Christmas. We are now closed until Wednesday 27th December with a 7.30am PYO opening time.
Have peaceful and joyful days with family and friends at this Christmas time.🙏

Thank you for your patience as we try to manage Christmas demand for berries with a crop that won't peak until New Year.
While the weather has improved, it has been too late for optimim fruit ripening. 😔

Please note that due to demand PYO is likely to close earlier each day than we'd hoped 😔

Opening Hours Update
👉From Thurs 14th Dec-Thurs 21st Dec
PYO 7:30am-12:30pm
Shop 8:00am-5:00pm

👉Fri 22nd Dec
PYO 7:00am-10:00am
Shop 8:30am-5:00pm

👉Sat 23rd Dec
PYO 7:00am-10:00am
Shop 8:30am-5:00pm

👉Sun 24th Dec
PYO 7:00am-10:00am
Shop 8:30am-12:30pm

PYO currently available:
Raspberries, Blackberries, Blueberries, Boysenberries, Tayberries, Red & Black Currants

Please note that we do not take orders for Christmas, as the weather has let us down in the past.

Due to demand PYO may close on any berry variety at any time. please understand the crop is lower than usual due to weather, and is also later than usual. There should be good picking at New Year.

Raspberry PYO is now available. 🙌🙌

PYO is, therefore, open for raspberries, blueberries, tayberries, ranui blackberries and red currants.

Cherries are now available at the shop, along with fresh blueberries. 👌🍒🫐

OPEN!!!

We are now open with the following:
-Ranui blackberries (port wine flavour)-fresh, frozen and PYO
-Tayberries- fresh, frozen and PYO
-Red Currants-fresh and PYO
-Lemons(sprayfree and waxfree)

If you have freezer space we suggest you purchase the Tayberries quickly as these sell out fast. These are the best berry, in our opinion, for jam.
Other berry types will follow once we get some sunshine ☀️

The unfavorable weather forecast has delayed our plan to open this weekend 🌧️🌧️.
As soon as the fruit is dry and the weather is clear, we will advise an opening date. 🤞🤞