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Cootes Store Farms, 13285 Turleytown Road, Broadway, VA (2026)

09/05/2026

Come grab some of the best Apples around!!! One day it’ll pay off! Does this not entertain you! 2nd biggest county in the state!!!!!

09/04/2026

Characteristics and uses of this weeks LABOR DAY WEEKEND APPLES!
(Nothing better than Martha steart salad https://food52.com/recipes/41740-martha-stewart-s-sweet-potato-celery-and-apple-salad)

* It falls on the first Monday in September every year.
* It creates a long three-day weekend known as Labor Day weekend.
History and Origins
* Late 1800s: The holiday started during the Industrial Revolution. Workers faced long hours, unsafe conditions, and low pay.
* First Parade: On September 5, 1882, about 10,000 workers marched in New York City to demand better conditions.
* Federal Holiday: President Grover Cleveland signed it into law on June 28, 1894, after a major railroad strike in Chicago

Autumn crisp Apple
* Taste: Sweet with a balanced, mild tartness and floral notes.
* Texture: Extra-crisp, fine-grained, and very juicy.
* Flesh Color: Bright white.
* Slow Browning: The flesh oxidizes very slowly, making it ideal for lunchboxes, fruit platters, and salads.
* Storage Life: Keeps its crisp texture and flavor in storage for several months.
* Best Uses: Excellent for fresh eating, slicing, salads, and light baking.

Macintosh
* Origin: Discovered as a chance seedling in Ontario, Canada, by John McIntosh in 1811
Fruit Characteristics
* Appearance: Medium-to-large round fruit with a green base covered by a bright crimson or dark red blush and a whitish waxy bloom.
* Flavor & Texture: Very juicy with a tangy, aromatic, and mildly spicy flavor. The flesh is soft and tender rather than crisp.
* Best Uses: Excellent for fresh eating, applesauce, and cider, though it tends to break down and lose its shape when baked in pies. Great for Saucee

Harrow sweet

https://www.marthastewart.com/275372/pear-recipes

FLESH & Texture: White to cream-colored flesh that becomes very juicy, smooth, and meltingly soft ("marshmallowy") when properly ripened.
Flavor: Sweet with low acidity, closely rivaling the popular Bartlett pear.
Uses: Excellent for fresh eating, canning, baking, and preserves

Gala
Origin: New Zealand (1930s)
Parentage: Cross between 'Kidd's Orange Red' and 'Golden Delicious'
Uses
* Fresh Eating: Ideal for raw snacking and slicing into salads due to its crisp texture and thin skin
* Cooking: Good for baking in pies, making applesauce, or preserving.

Honeycrisp
Crunch: Features unusually large cell sizes that rupture when bitten rather than compress, creating a signature loud, crisp "snap" and abundant juice.
Flavor: Delivers a sweet, honey-like taste balanced with a refreshing, mild tartness.
Price: Often commands a higher retail price than traditional varieties due to more complex harvesting, handling, and storage requirements.
Uses: Ideal for eating fresh out of hand, slicing into salads, juicing, or baking because it holds its shape well.

ENJOY the HOLIDAY!!!!!! 🎅 🍷 🎁 🍎 🍱

09/03/2026

Fresh on the market- - Some EXOTIC lumber!!!

Song of the Far Timber
Far from the soil where our local maples grow,Deep in the heat where the green monsoons blow,
Sleeps the dense heart of a sun-lacquered tree,Carried across the wide, salt-heavy sea
Dark as rich coffee, or striped like a flame,Holding a secret that leaves have no name,Cocobolo, ebony, purpleheart bold,Lifting old shadows and flashes of gold.

Under the hand, it is heavy and cool,Drawn by the chisel and shaped by the rule.Smooth as a river stone, dense as a vow,It carries the pulse of the jungle right now.”

Beli, Tigerwood, Cucupay, Old Growth Honduran Mahogony

Beli wood is an exotic African hardwood prized as an affordable and workable substitute for Zebrawood. Sourced from trees in West and Central Africa like Cameroon and Gabon, it features a distinct striped grain pattern

Tigerwood, tropical hardwood timber tree native to Brazil that produces the dense, distinctively striped wood. Features a warm reddish-brown to golden-brown background with bold, irregular dark brown or black stripes. Extremely heavy (about 59 lbs per cubic foot), stiff, strong, and highly durable.

Curupay, is an extremely dense and hard South American hardwood that is widely marketed under the trade name Patagonian Rosewood. Features a very high Janka hardness rating of around 3,630 to 3,840 lbf, making it much harder than Red Oak or Brazilian Cherry. Displays striking irregular dark brown or nearly black stripes and streaks.

(Old Growth) Honduran Mahogany, Old-growth mahogany refers to lumber harvested from trees that grew naturally in undisturbed mature forests for 120 to over 400 years, yielding exceptionally dense, stable, and richly colored wood compared to modern plantation-grown stock. This timber features deeper red-brown hues, natural luster from rich oils and waxes, and superior dimensional stability. (Barn kept for over 35 years!). (Over 16” Wide 8/4).

🪵 🌴 LUMBER by APPOINTMENT ONLY 🪵 🌴

09/03/2026

I want to welcome you to Cootes Store Farms for the 2026 Apple Harvest Season as sole proprietor this year!

There will be some changes this year due to the frost conditions in spring (x2) and other moving pieces as with everything over time.

If you do not see an employee (at the barn), it is self serve / “honor system” throughout the 2026 season (September-around mid November). There will be arrows to follow along the road and plenty of signs to explain items and potential questions about the fruit that surrounds you!

Make yourself at home and enjoy the homeplace!!!!! the aromas of fall, the “cooler air” the fall foliage and in many’s opinion, the best season of the year!!!!!

Thanks in advance and we enjoy providing the community with quality fruit to enjoy and nourish one’s self!!!!

09/01/2026

This weeks ⭐️ GIVEAWAY WINNER ⭐️ is intertwined within this post!

Fruit this week: 🍏 🍎 🍐 🍐 🍏 🍎

- 🍎 Gala APPLE (these are beautiful and nice size!)
-Honeycrisp
-Autumn Crisp
-Maccintosh AND something thats not an
Apple (PEARS)
- 🍐 Harrow Sweet PEAR
(Very large, and sweet; bigger and crispier
Than a bartlet)

Open for fruit this SEASON Thur-Sat 9-5, Sun 12-5 (follow the arrows around till you come to the barn and you can’t miss the apple bins!)….cash or check ONLY

This weeks Winner is Tudy Ritchie Keister . Congratulations! DM or call to schedule a pickup Thur-Sun!!!! Here’s a bit more about the wood in this trivet or display piece (a LOT for sale!!!!) ⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️⬇️

Some of the most unique wood that you will rarely find again with a lot of history! 250 years for America, 176 years for the Good Homeplace (in the same family). “Old black and white” pictures!

What HOMEBUILDER, REAL ESTATE AGENT, ARCHITECT or INTERIOR DESIGNER would not want a piece of Shenandoah Valley HISTORY?!?!?! Especially for all you chicken and turkey lovers out there!!!!!!

What a story this wood has to offer. This lumber is from one of the “first modern” turkey/chicken houses in Rockingham County, Virginia (Incase you didn’t know, the birthplace of the domesticated poultry industry in the WORLD!!!)

This comes off the Good Homeplace circa 1850 and the house was Alfred Goods (my Grandad) first modern house. He originally started with range turkeys (which wasn’t “cool” at the time)…….

This wood has so many unique characteristics as reclaimed lumber due to its environment of being in a chicken house all these years it’s absolutely beautiful and one of a kind……..

There are many options before I make some decisions on what its destined to be but could be decided by 1-3 clients.

WHO WOULD LIKE TO KEEP THIS HISTORY of the SHENANDOAH VALLEY of VIRGINIA on 🇺🇸 250th yr celebration????

The details of the wood:

-southern yellow pine
-currently in 2”x6”x12’
-ideally cut on my mill and turned into around 3/4” thickness
-tongue and groove is possible (smooth surface or a more rustic look, kind of skip planned)
-shiplapping is a possibility with same appearance options.
-the stains and finishes are up to the customer
-roughly will end up being over 12,000 up to 17,000 square feet (tractor trailor load, or multiple goosenecks)

DM or call (540) 421-6781 to discuss or schedule an appointment

08/31/2026

Here’s some examples (pics) of signage, charcuteries, plaques (can come plain as well)……anythings about possible, if you can think it…..

Price could very from $40 small, to the average size (23” Long x 14” Wide) $120-$325. Time Wood variety, size, stain, finish……
CUSTOM pieces, better than etsy, unique and thoughtful…treat yourself or give as a gift (from standing apple tree to cutting an apple on it, thinking of the saying on it or where the wood came from……)

🪵 🌳 📬 📫 We can SHIP/MAIL 🪵 🌳 📫 📫

🍏 🍏 APPLE Drawing, Wednesday!!!! 🍏 🍏

💫 🌟 just think how much work went into one side that theirs not many videos of……tree growing on land (potentially over 100 yrs), cut down, drug out and loaded, sawn by a mill, kiln dried, worked by hand, laser engraved, then stained and finished 🌟 💫

08/30/2026

Sunday thoughts “pre-APPLE season” and “pre-Christmas”.

Scripture that includes apples at the bottom….

Best get your ideas and thoughts together before it’s too late to order any custom furniture, signs, charcuteries, etc etc. (Bowls). You don’t want to wait till 2 weeks before!!!

Here are a few pics of bowl man’s latest collections (both of us by appointment and primarily by “orders”).

🍎 🍎 🍒 🍐 🫐 🍊 🍋 🍊 🫐 🍐 🍒 🍎 🍎
Proverbs 25:11 ESV / 123 helpful votes HelpfulNot Helpful
A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in a setting of silver.

Song of Solomon 2:3 ESV / 100 helpful votes
As an apple tree among the trees of the forest, so is my beloved among the young men. With great delight I sat in his shadow, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Psalm 17:8 ESV / 90 helpful votes
Keep me as the apple of your eye; hide me in the shadow of your wings,
Joel 1:12 ESV / 59 helpful votes
The vine dries up; the fig tree languishes. Pomegranate, palm, and apple, all the trees of the field are dried up, and gladness dries up from the children of man.

Proverbs 7:2 ESV / 51 helpful votes
Keep my commandments and live; keep my teaching as the apple of your eye;

Song of Solomon 7:8 ESV / 50 helpful votes
I say I will climb the palm tree and lay hold of its fruit. Oh may your breasts be like clusters of the vine, and the scent of your breath like apples,
Song of Solomon 2:5 ESV / 44 helpful votes
Sustain me with raisins; refresh me with apples, for I am sick with love.
Deuteronomy 32:10 ESV / 39 helpful votes
“He found him in a desert land, and in the howling waste of the wilderness; he encircled him, he cared for him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Zechariah 2:8 ESV / 34 helpful votes
For thus said the Lord of hosts, after his glory sent me to the nations who plundered you, for he who touches you touches the apple of his eye:

Song of Solomon 8:5 ESV / 26 helpful votes
Who is that coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? Under the apple tree I awakened you. There your mother was in labor with you; there she who bore you was in labor.

Genesis 1:29 ESV / 16 helpful votes
And God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food.

08/28/2026

⭐️ 💫 🌟 🌟 FREE Giveaway!!!!🌟 💫 🌟 🌟
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Win a 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 American 250th celebration trivet [also celebrating the 🐓 business at Cootes Store Farms for approx 85 years!])(also win 2 FREE bumper stickers!!!)🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

🍎 🍏 🍎 Grand OPENING for the APPLE SEASON!!! 🍎 🍏 🍎 Thursday September3. We will be open Thursday-Sat 9-5 and Sunday 12-5 through the season!

Apple Varieties to come later this week! 1/2 peck, peck, half bushel and 4 or more bushel price! Some Apple varieties will be mix-n-match (meaning you can get multiple varieties together) (others will be specified separate).

Winner announced Wednesday September 2, with APPLE varieties AVAILABLE, in the AM, pickup Thursday-Sat 9-5, Sun 12-5! DM or call for timing of pickup!!!!!!

08/26/2026

🌲 🪵 🌲 🪵 For Sale! 🌲 🪵 🌲 🪵

***recycle the past to save history and culture***

Does anybody know what wormy chestnut is? According to Jennifer Garner (West VA native) it’s just some dead tree that might be the state tree (watch Conan O’brian)!

To many it’s one of the most high valued trees of Appalachia that ever was and will be! They don’t make IT every day! It died from a chestnut blight and all were gone by approximately 1930. There will NEVER be anymore American Chestnut in my lifetime (42). This is all reclaimed lumber that comes from houses, barns, sheds and outbuildings.

It is one of the most versatile woods around the world and there never will be anymore!!!! Is that special, I don’t know. It sure seems more valueable than Mahogony or Ebony etc……

🌲🪵For SALE! wormy American Chestnut🌲🪵

https://tacf.org/history-american-chestnut/

Paneling, flooring, furniture, crown moulding, chair rail, wainscoting, cielings, etc etc……

08/26/2026

Opening up with apples soon! We’ll have plenty of signs up so you won’t miss a thing or variety! It should be self explanatory, if not we’ll be happy to hand you the toilet paper! Self service primarily this year!

Enjoy, we’ll try to have as many varieties as possible this year! (I know it’s been a long time but there were 2 frosts this spring and it was impactful) cash or check only!

Btw Sue left the business, there ya go!

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