06/15/2026
TREE FRUIT UPDATE:
Many of you have asked about peaches, nectarines, plums, apricots, cherries, and other tree fruits this season.
Unfortunately, most of the eastern fruit-growing region experienced devastating freeze damage this spring, resulting in severe crop losses across most orchards. As a result, locally grown tree fruit will be extremely limited throughout much of the region this year.
At Green Thumb Botanicals (and Fruits & Flowers), we have always prioritized sourcing from West Virginia growers whenever possible, and that commitment remains unchanged. This season, we will continue working through our established West Virginia orchard partner, who—like many orchards throughout the region—has been impacted by these losses. To help meet customer demand while supporting our WV orchard relationships, we will offer a limited selection of tree fruit sourced from outside the freeze-affected region only because a local option does not exist this season. This will include the following crops: peaches, nectarines, plum, cherry, and apricots.
For our farmers markets shoppers, we submitted a formal request to market management outlining our proposed sourcing plan and received approval. Transparency is important to us.
This is a temporary response to an extraordinary growing season, not a permanent change in how we source fruit. This fall, as West Virginia-grown fruit becomes available, we will continue to prioritize it.
This isn’t ideal and we appreciate your support of local agriculture, small farm systems, and the growers working through one of the most challenging fruit seasons in recent memory.
