Hillside Apples

Crisp apples, picked by hand on the hillside.

A small family orchard growing over a dozen apple varieties and pressing fresh cider every autumn. Come pick your own, or let us box up the season and send it your way.

Plan a Visit See This Season

At the Farm Store

  • Honeycrisp — per lb$2.40
  • Granny Smith — per lb$1.90
  • Fresh-pressed cider — half gal$7.00
  • Apple butter — 12 oz$8.50
  • Pick-your-own bag$18.00

Ripening This Season

We plant for flavor and a long season, so there's something crisp on the trees from late August through the first frost.

Honeycrisp

Explosively juicy and sweet with a snap you can hear. Our most-asked-for variety — ready mid-September.

Granny Smith

Bright, tart and firm — the baker's favorite. Holds its shape in a pie and keeps for months in the cellar.

Golden Russet

An old-fashioned cider apple with a nutty, honeyed sweetness. Small harvest, worth the wait — late October.

Three generations on the same ridge.

Hillside Apples started with a few dozen trees planted along the ridge road back in 1961. Today we tend just under forty acres, still pruning by hand and picking into the same style of wooden crates my grandfather built.

We're not the biggest orchard around, and we like it that way. Smaller means we can pick each apple at its peak instead of all at once, and press cider in small batches the week the fruit comes off the tree.

14Apple Varieties
38Acres Tended
1961Planted

Why It Tastes Better

  • Hand-picked at peak ripeness
  • Pressed in small weekly batches
  • No wax, no cold-storage months
  • Bees kept on-site for pollination
  • Windfall fruit goes to the cider press

Come Visit the Orchard

Pick-your-own runs every weekend through the season. The farm store is open six days a week with cider, preserves, and the day's fresh picks.

Farm Store & Pick-Your-Own

Ridge Road, Orchard Hollow

Follow the ridge road two miles past the covered bridge; the red barn is on your left.

Pick-your-own: Sat & Sun, 9am–5pm, late Aug through first frost.

Bring: the family, flat shoes, and an appetite. Bags provided at the gate.

Store Hours

  • MondayClosed
  • Tuesday – Friday10am – 6pm
  • Saturday9am – 6pm
  • Sunday9am – 4pm