R. B. Tukey Horticulture Orchard
Current Announcements
Our next fruit sale will be in the middle to end of July for "YOU PICK YOUR OWN" sweet and tart cherries as long as the weather gives us a crop.
Thank you for all your support this last year!!!!
Tukey Orchard Description
This orchard is here in Pullman for members of the local campus or others to do teaching, research, and/or extension work. Those are our top priorities. If we have surplus fruit or vegetables that will not be used for teaching, research, or extension projects we sell the surplus produce to the general public and apply that money to our operations funds.
On site we have 83 varieties of apples; 11 varieties of pears; 6 varieties of sweet cherries; a small stone fruit variety block with tart cherries, 11 peach varieites, 8 apricot varieties, 3 prune varieties and 2 nectarine varieties; 3 strawberries varieties; and 20+ varieties of cane berries. All these fruit plantings are on about 10 acres total. In addition, our site also houses the 3 acre Crops and Soils Department Organic Farm.
Our Location
WSU Tukey Orchard, Airport Road, Pullman, WA
Our entrance is at the intersection of Airport Road and Terre View Extension. Coming from the intersection of State Highway 270 and Airport Road that is closest to Pullman you would drive 1.25 miles north on Airport Road to the Tukey Orchard entrance on the right (east) side of Airport Road.
General Info about Fruit Sales
Typically we have a fruit sale in the middle to end of July for tart and sweet cherries for 1 to 3 weekends depending upon crop volume. The next fruit sales of the year begin some time in September when we start up our fruit sales again with our fall crops primarily, apples and pears. The highlight of our apple sales is the 83 varieties of apples from our variety block. 20 of the 83 cultivars are different strains of Red Delicious, including the original Standard Red Delicious.
Types and varieties of produce