Apple U-Pick Orchards in Northern New Hampshire in 2024, by county
Below are the U-Pick orchards and farms for apples that we know of in this area. Not all areas of any state, nor even every state, have apples orchards that are open to the public. If you know of any others, please tell us using the add a farm form!
Remember to always check with the farm's own website or Facebook page before you go - or call or email them if they don't have a website or Facebook page. Conditions at the farms and crops can change literally overnight, so if you want to avoid a wasted trip out there - check with the farm directly before you go! If I cannot reach them, I DON'T GO!
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Carroll County
- Hatches Orchard - - Apples
1440 Brownfield Road, Center Conway, NH 03813. Phone: 603-447-5687. Open: 10 am to 4 pm, weekends, holidays. Click here for a map and directions. Fax: 447-5687. Turn left at the flashing light on Rte. 302 in Center Conway. Take Mill St for approx. 4 miles. Apples: McIntosh, Empire, Cortland, Northern Spy
Grafton County
- Cardigan Mountain Orchard - apples, restrooms, gift shop, picnic area, tours of the operation, group tours
1540 Mt. Cardigan Road, Alexandria, NH 03222. Phone: (603) 744-2248. Email: cardiganorchard@gmail.com. Open: Labor Day through the end of October; 10am to 5pm. Directions: Call for directions. Payment: Cash, Check, Debit cards, Visa, MasterCard. The original trees were planted in the 1930's and are still producing a large quantity of apples. We have planted more trees since we bought the land in the 1970's, and now we have around 1,000 trees. Many of are . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check, Debit cards, Visa, MasterCard. . open to our pick-your-own customers. The orchard is open for pick-your-own apples everyday from Labor Day to the end of October (for as long as we have apples!). We offer 15+ varieties of apples, please read below to learn more about our most popular varieties, they ripen in the order listed. Yellow Transparent (Late August)Early Mac (Paula Red) (Late August, early September)Gravenstein(Early September)Heirloom Gravenstein (Early September)Macintosh(Mid September)Heirloom Mac (Mid September)Cortland (Mid-Late September)Heirloom Cortland (Mid-Late September)Macoun (Late September)Honey Crisp (Late September)Spartan (Late September)Pound Sweet (Early October)Empire (Mid October)Red/Golden Delicious (Mid October)Northern Spy (Mid October)Baldwin (Late October) (UPDATED: September 16, 2018, JBS) - Mount Pleasant Orchard - Minimizes chemical and pesticide use, apples, pumpkins, U-pick and already picked, snacks and refreshment stand
312 Sargent Hill Road, Grafton, NH 03240. Phone: 603-523-4325. Email: skuligoski@yahoo.com. Open: See our website for current hours. Directions: From Interstate 89: Get off on Exit 17 and go on Route 4 East. Follow that until you get to Grafton. There will be a sign on Prescott Hill Road, and other signs all the way up to the orchard. From Interstate 93: Get off on Exit 17 and go on Route 4 West. Follow that until you get to Grafton. There will be a sign on Prescott Hill Road, and other signs all the way up to the orchard. . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check.
Mount Pleasant Orchard Facebook page. . Picking updates: Click here for picking updates. See our website for dates open. We minimize use of pesticides and other chemicals. We will also sell pies, and some pumpkins from our garden. Mt. Pleasant Orchard facebook page - Patch Orchards - Apples, sweet corn, pumpkins
40 Patch Rd, Lebanon, NH 03766. Phone: 603-448-4130. Email: patchorchards@gmail.com. Click here for a map and directions.
Patch Orchards Facebook page. . See their website for hours and availability. Our family has been farming here since 1776. New farm stand, tasting room and sugar house. Panoramic views. - Poverty Lane Orchards - apples, pumpkins, some winter squashes.
Poverty Lane, Lebanon, NH 03766. Phone: (603)448-1511. Email: info@povertylaneorchards.com. Open: week days: 9 am to 6 pm; weekends, . Directions: near Exit 19 off Interstate 89 in New Hampshire, minutes from the junction of Interstates 91 and 89 in the Upper Connecticut River Valley. At Exit 19, turn west from the off-ramp. At the first light, turn left up Poverty Lane. (From I-91, take I-89 south across the river to reach Exit 19.) . Click here for a map and directions. . Open Labor Day Weekend through Early October (Farm stand open longer).10 am-5 pm. Daily tastings of our ciders (with valid ID). Call for variety information. Click here for a map. Wagon Rides into the Fields on Fair Weekends. Horse-drawn wagon rides to the orchard. Pick your own, or already bagged, apples, including several wonderful varieties of heirloom apples, cider - alcoholic and regular non-alcoholic. (UPDATED: September 29, 2020 JBS)
Comments from a visitor on September 21, 2008: "I like this farm very much. They have a wide variety of heirloom apple varieties." - Solid Earth Farm - Minimizes chemical and pesticide use, apples,
398 Plains Rd, Lisbon, NH 03585. Phone: (603) 616-6359. Email: Robert@solidearthfarm.com. Open: Monday to Friday, from 8 am to 7 pm; Saturday and Sunday, from 7 am to 5 pm, September 1 to October 31. Directions: From Highway 302 take Lyman Road ~1.5 Miles to 2nd intersection with Plains Road Make a hard right and the driveway is 1st one on the left. Follow Signs. . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check. . We minimize use of pesticides and other chemicals. (UPDATED: September 17, 2021) (ADDED: September 19, 2019) - Windy Ridge Orchard and Christmas Tree Farm - Apples, blueberries, pumpkins, Christmas trees-you choose and you cut, Precut Christmas trees, Christmas wreaths and boughs, saws provided, trees bagged, sleigh rides, pumpkin patch-pick in the field, pumpkin patch- already gathered from the field, and prepicked produce, gift shop, snacks and refreshment stand, restrooms, picnic area, tractor-pulled hay rides, petting zoo
1775 Benton Road, North Haverhill, NH 03774. Phone: 603-787-6377. Email: info@windyridgeorchard.com. Open: July - August: 7:00 - 3:00 August - November: 7:00 - 6:00 November - December: 10:00 - 4:00 Blueberries: July 15 - August 10 Apples: August 30 - October 10 Pumpkins: September 10 - October 31 Christmas Trees: Thanksgiving - Christmas (weekends only) Payment: Cash, Check. Directions: Interstate 93: Take exit 32, turn off ramp onto Route 112 West, follow 112 for 13 miles, turn left onto Route 116 South, follow for 7 miles, orchard is on left. Route 10: turn onto Benton Road/Route 116 at the North Haverhill Civil War monument, follow 116 for 3 miles, orchard is on the right . Click here for a map and directions. Payment: Cash, Check. . Crops are usually available in July, August, September, October, December.
Apple Picking Tips, Recipes and Information
Apples ripen from the outside of the tree towards the center, so the apples out the outside of the tree will ripen first. Once they are picked, they stop ripening. Picking apples directly from a tree is easy. Roll the apple upwards off the branch and give a little twist; don't pull straight away from the tree. If two apples are joined together at the top, both will come away at the same time. Don't shake the trees or branches. If the apple you are trying to pick drops, (or others on the tree) go ahead and pick it up. They're perfectly fine! But do wash them before you eat them! More info: How to tell when apples are ripe
- Once picked, don't throw the apples into the baskets, place them in gently, or they will bruise and go bad more quickly.
- Don't wash apples until just before using to prevent spoilage.
- For an explanation of why apple slices turn brown and how to stop it, see this page!
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Keep apples cool after picking to increase shelf life. A cool basement is ideal, but the fruit/vegetable drawer of a refrigerator will work, too. A refrigerator is fine for small
quantities of apples. Boxed apples need to be kept in a cool, dark spot
where they won't freeze. Freezing ruptures all of an apple's cells, turning
it into one large bruise overnight. The usual solution is to store apples in
a root cellar. But root cellars often have potatoes in them: apples and
potatoes should never be stored in the same room because, as they age,
potatoes release an otherwise ethylene gas, which makes apples spoil faster.
If you can keep the gas away from your apples, they will keep just fine.
Just don't store them right next to potatoes.
Prevent contact between apples stored for the winter by wrapping them individually in sheets of newspaper. The easiest way to do this is to unfold a section of newspaper all the way and tear it into quarters. Then stack the wrapped apples . See more here: How to store apples at home - Apples don't improve or "ripen" after being picked - this is an urban myth - see this page for the truth - with references!
Which apple variety is best?
There are tens of thousands of varieties of apples, developed over centuries. They vary in sugar, acoidity, flavors, storing, crispness and many other attributes. See our guides to apple varieties:
- Summary table of many apple varieties and their characteristics
- Detailed descriptions of each apple variety with detailed characteristics
- Apple varieties, sorted by the order in which they typically ripe
- Apple varieties that don't turn brown when they are cut
- Why are some apples brown or spotted inside when you first cut them open?
Canning apples - fully illustrated, with step-by-step instructions
- How to make applesauce
- How to make apple butter
- How to make apple jelly
- How to make apple pie filling (canned)
- How to can apples
- Home canned apple juice
Recipes, illustrated with step by step instructions
- Apple pie recipe and directions and illustrated! I can say, with, ahem, no bias at all, that this is the best apple pie recipe in the world! (Alright, I did have an apple strudel in Vienna once at that place listed in Fodors that was REALLY good, but that wasn't a pie, was it? And since this was the recipe my grandmother used, it must be great!)
- How to make applesauce for a single meal (not canning it) with NO special equipment
- Apple cobbler
- Apple crunch - best of all! Moist, low sugar and using oats!
- Apple crisp - ever-popular, low sugar and using oats!
- Apple, blackberry, cherry, and/or peach cobbler
- Apple-blackberry, crumble - a English favorite (or favourite)
Using fresh apples and miscellaneous
- How to stop cut apples from browning
- Apple festivals - find one near you!
- Apple facts
- Apple seeds and cyanide