SAT-SUN (& Holiday Monday): 10AM to 5PM
THURSDAY, FRIDAY & MONDAY: 9AM to 6pm
TUESDAYS & WEDNESDAYS: Closed
Estimated timing for PYO varieties
Pick-Your-Own Apple List
Hot tip: TASTE an apple variety BEFORE you pick lots more of them.
(It's fine to drop bitten apples -- plenty of life forms in the orchard can use them. Nature again.)
Apples on the tree stay crisp for some weeks, and get sweeter every day.
Seven PYO varieties are plentiful. (Scroll down further for info on limited amounts in the Apple Zoo.)
McIntosh - starting early Sept on. If you like them tart, come as early as possible.
Macs became the classic Northeastern variety for generations, fabulous when fresh off the tree.
Cortland - starting Sept, slightly later than Macs - again, taste!
Large, solid, great for eating and a famous northeastern cooking apple.
Ribston Pippin - starting mid-Sept usually.
Heirloom, English, solid, grainy, deliciously flavored, another celebrated old-school variety with old-school appearance and weight.
Wickson - starting 3rd week of September. Very small, delightfully sweet-sour, hard to find elsewhere, hard to eat just one... (If they taste good to you earlier, pick away.)
Macoun - starting 2nd-3rd week in September, but call early if the weather's been hot. Macoun-lovers know to call, these are thin-skinned apples with their own special snap. Fabulous picked or bagged from the orchard, not tough enough to hold up well in trucking to stores.
Calville blanc d’hiver - starting late September usually. A stunning French-bred pie apple, also for sour-apple fans a treat to eat.Famous for centuriesin its home country.
Ribston Pippin - Mid-September usually. Heirloom, English, solid, grainy, deliciously flavored, another celebrated old-school variety with old-school appearance and weight.
Golden Delicious -- the latest-ripening Pick-Your-Own variety, well into October. Our GD are NOT the bland watery type you might find in stores. they're an old-school strain: mid-sized, intensely flavored, crunchy, bred not for appearance but for taste.
Apple Zoo for Pick-Your-Own Opens Sat, Oct. 4th -- details HERE.
Ready-Picked Apples: More varieties each week -- details HERE.
In the Retail Stand: (CALL (603)448-1511with questions)
Ginger Gold & Paula Red to start.
Adding McIntosh, Cortland, Macouns, Wickson, Elstar, Gala, Calville blanc, Jonagold, Ashmead’s Kernel, Ribston Pippin, Esopus Spitzenburg, Golden Russet, and more as they come on - we have to bite them ourselves to know when to bring them in! (Pick-your-owners can bite apples in the orchard and decide on picking for themselves, but we're packing US Fancy grade, so we need them at their typical best.)
Many varieties are also available in bulk utility grade for pies, apple sauce, canning.
Our fresh sweet cider comes in when the apples sweeten up a little, second week of September: CALL (603)448-1511
Our hard Farnum Hill ciders are available every day we're open.
Over-21’s can taste & buy our Farnum Hill ciders. We happily fill your reusable growlers any day we're open but on THURSDAYS there's a special Growler Day discount for refills... (Bring half-gallon containers, they don't have to be from here.)
Anyone can taste our amazing fresh-pressed sweet cider.
Also find baked goods, mums, pumpkins, jams, jellies, maple candy, syrup, sugar, and more!
Bulk Apples:
- Bulk half-bushel bags of Orchard Run Apples - half bushel, ungraded, same price as pick-your-own but less work.
- Bulk half-bushel bags of Utility Grade Apples - excellent in quality but not in looks, very economical.
- Bin lots of Drop Apples - 600lbs/15 bushels each (call for info)
Special-Order:
Bulk fresh cider juices, blended for home fermentation, pressed at the end of the season for DIY hard cidermakers.
Call the Fruit Phone to find out when your favorites are coming on in the field or coming in to the retail stand: 603-448-1511.
