The good folks at Wood Orchard shared this picture of SweeTango apples ripening on a tree in Door County, Wis. The photo was taken on Aug. 17. As you can see, we’re getting so close to harvest time!

Wood Orchard is a family-run orchard and market about 60 miles northeast of Green Bay. It’s the only Wisconsin orchard that is part of Next Big Thing, A Growers Cooperative, which grows and markets the SweeTango apple.

Wood Orchard is a true family affair. From the orchard’s web site:

Jim and Barbara Wood established the orchard in 1955 after moving their young family to cool Door County from hot and humid St. Louis, Missouri.

Steve and JeffNow Jim’s son, Steve, and grandson, Jeff, work together to grow about 200 acres of strawberries, raspberries, cherries and apples in Door County on the Door Peninsula in Northeast Wisconsin.

SweeTango apples should start arriving in stores in the United States and Canada in early September.