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 8/26/2026 Wednesday

I will be open this Saturday and Sunday from 9 am until 2 pm

I believe I am, for all practical purposes, out of Peaches and Nectarines.  You can find an occasional small named variety peach but there are lots of rootstock peaches (what I call a rootstock peach is where the original named variety grafted peach died, but the peach seedling it was grafted onto survived), but for the rootstock peaches, each tree is a different variety, and most are not good. They may have the wrong texture, cling to the pit, bad flavor or no sugar.  If you are desperate, you need to try a peach off each tree to see if it is good (most are not) and then just pick the tested tree.  the tree next to it is an entirely different story and needs to be tasted if you need more peaches.

Apples

I currently have the following apples ready to pick:

Akane  (sweet-tart, small but good for fresh eating & relatively non-browning, baking, applesauce and juice)

Gingergold (Sweet, fresh eating & also relatively non-browning, baking and  applesauce_

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

Summerred (mild flavor, fresh eating, light baking, applesauce and juice)

Redfree apple ( disease resistant deer feed -turns mushy way to fast ...  ahh, some people actually like it.)

Zestar (good flavor almost picked out in one day) and Hazen (not to sweet) have also ripened in the last week.

Plums

I still have a few Friar and Burbank plums. They are disappearing fast and flavor may be changing.

Pears

Bartlets They seem to be coming off okay when picking but still seem a little green.

Rescue do not seem to want to come off

HOURS

Open Saturday and Sunday 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.

Apple prices going up a quarter on September 1.  they cost a bundle pruning and thinning this year.  First price hike on my apples in at least a decade.

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, stop taking up water after a few weeks.

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.