Bays Family Farm LLC

Many varieties of peaches, plums, nectarines, apples, pears and Christmas trees, when in season. Call for prices, availability, open days and hours (503) 324-0261.   Most fruit is only available u-pick.  Picked fruit is only available occasionally.  Fruit trees can be mostly picked from the ground.  Do not use ladders.  We have boxes available, or you can use your own containers.

Update 9/25/2026 Friday

I will be open Saturday from 9 am until 2 pm.

I am out of Peaches and Nectarines and nearly out of plums

APPLES

Apple prices are up a quarter from last month.  they cost me a bundle pruning and thinning this year.  First price hike in at least a decade.  Some of these apples have been ripe for quite a while, I encourage customers to try an apple or two of each variety before deciding what to pick.  We have been picking on the following apples:

Akane (sweet-tart, small but good for fresh eating & relatively non-browning, baking, applesauce and juice) some are getting very ripe.

Blondee (Very Sweet, Crisp, good for fresh eating, salads and baking, slow to brown) Last week's favorite apple of those who tasted it

Chehalis (A sweet greenish yellow apple for fresh eating and baking) Nearly gone.

Gingergold (Sweet), used for fresh eating & also relatively non-browning, baking and applesauce.  Lot on the ground but still some good ones on the trees.

Hazen fresh eating, baking, applesauce and apple cider or wine

Honeycrisp (sweet) It has its uses.  Starting to drop badly.

Pink Pearl some pink flesh, used for fresh eating, baking, cooking, sauces, and cider making. Excellent Apple Crisp Apple.

Red Gravenstein (tart-sweet, fresh eating, baking, applesauce and cider). Nearly gone

Red MacIntosh (one small tree)

Redfree apple ( disease resistant deer feed -turns mushy way to fast ...  ahh, some people actually like it.) Mostly on the ground or too ripe.

Sansa (Similar to Gala best fresh eating, Cider, Salads light baking, drying) Newly ripe this week.

Summerred (mild flavor, fresh eating, light baking, applesauce and juice) Mostly on the ground.

Zestar (good flavor almost picked out in one day) and Hazen (not to sweet). Mostly on the ground or picked.

Frequin Rouge (Hard Cider, tricking people into tasting a bitter apple) I think this is ripe, I'm not about to taste it. Little if no sugar or apple flavor.

There are other apples ripe now but I have not had the time to check them all.  I think I might have some Arlet, Cherry and Queen Cox, Roxberry Russet, Stearns and I need to check the Liberty and Cox Orange Pippin as well.

Figs

I have been having some ripe figs for the last couple of weeks. The yellow Oregon Prolific and a smaller unknown purplish red fig.  They ripen slowly but I have more each week until the fall rains really set in.

Grapes

I currently have seeded juice grapes such as Warden and Niagara.  The only seedless grapes left are Red Canadice.

Quince (the fruit not the clothing brand)

The Pineapple Quince are ripe enough to pick.  QUINCE is a remarkably dense and hard fruit. I would recommend a butcher's knife or a large chef's knife to cut it instead of a paring knife. Fruit is also very sour and astringent but when cooked develops a very floral flavor.  Mostly used for making Jams or cooked in some fashion with sugar.  You might do an internet search for "How to Eat Quince, A forgotten Fruit" or just search for "Quince Recipes".  Takes a lot of cooking to soften the fruit eliminate the tannins and the flesh will turn pink.

Plums

I might have a dozen or two individual Stanley plums. That is it for plums for this year.

Pears

The vast majority of Bartlet pears are gone.  I still have Rescue pears - I think they are ready to pick and D'Anjou pears left to ripen.  Maybe a dozen or so Comice pears left to ripen as well.

A few people have asked about Walnuts, the squirrels and bluejays have been busy packing them off for the last couple of weeks.  Occasionally a few can be found on the ground before the squirrels pack them off.

The Paw Paws were not ready last week; I need to check them again and mow near them.

HOURS

Open Saturday 9 am until 2 pm

I cannot stand temperatures higher than about 90 degrees for long and in some cases neither can the picked peaches when placed into a hot vehicle in the sun.  I encourage people to remove peaches from their vehicles for cooler locations before they can heat up in the sun. I tend to modify my hours based on the weather forecast to open and close an hour earlier on those hotter days.

Christmas Trees (section still under construction)

I raise mostly 4 varieties of Christmas trees

Douglas Fir Fast growing readily survive in this climate have a fragrance, weak branches,.

Grand Fir Strong Fragrance, dark green foliage but can at times drop needles and also stop taking up water after a few weeks.(have had a great deal of difficulty the last several years getting seedlings to survive) Selection limited to larger trees

Noble Fir  Has a fragrance, stiff strong branches, takes up water longer than Douglas  or Grand,  is considered the number 1 Christmas tree in the Pacific Northwest (have had a great deal of difficulty the last several years getting seedlings to survive) Selection is slightly weak on mid-sized trees.  A lot coming for the next couple of years

Nordmann (and Turkish fir) Mostly odorless, strong branches, it keeps taking up water longer than any other common Christmas tree.  Looks good usually long after the other trees dry up.

Soapbox time

[ I consider Nordmann and Turkish fir to be the same species, they readily interbreed with each other and by my definition of species, they are just subspecies of the same species.  All of the so-called edumacated professional experts and stuck-up pointy headed scientists are wrong, in my back-woods farmer's opinion.  I think somebody in the past just wanted the honor of naming a new species. Okay there may have been some debates about it, but what is your definition of a species?  I normally respect scientists except when they are clearly pushing an agenda and cherry-picking or fudging data and attempt to sue or silence critics with words rather than further research defending claims.  Science is advanced by vigorous debate.  Personal attacks do not belong in science rather challenges about methodology, replication and conclusions definitely do belong.

I do not typically post prices on this website because the information is often copied to other sites which may not get updated.  I had a neighbor who posted prices of 40 cents per pound for peaches.  They were copied to another website and were still there 10 years after the grower had died and the then current prices were well over a dollar. Call for prices.

WE ACCEPT CREDIT & DEBIT CARDS AS WELL AS CASH & CHECKS.

I blame robocalling crooks and telemarketers who can't read the federal do not call list, surveys and politicians for the reason I no longer drop what I'm doing and rush to answer the phone. Thankfully most of them do not leave messages.