Welcome to Park Hill Orchard
Hello friends!
Park Hill Orchard is in the fourth year of a five-year renovation. Visit our Flickr Gallery to see what life is like here on the orchard.
We currently tend about 80 varieties of perennial fruit in the form of strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries, persimmons, plums, cherries, pears and apples, with more being ramped up in 2011-12. Join our newsletter to stay updated on our offerings.
If you have a question about something we grow, or would like us to grow something for you, please contact us.
Our staffed farm stand is open from late summer to around Thanksgiving. You can get directions to the orchard. We look forward to your visit!
Pick Your Own - Now through September
We have end-of-season apples for cider, baking, sauce and eating. Granny Smith, Idared and Goldens. Bring your own containers. Ten dollars a bushel. There is a lot of fruit here but it is important to phone in and listen to the hotline recording if you are thinking of picking.
The Park Hill PYO Hotline number is 413-303-0335
What we've currently got for sale:
The Farm Stand is open informally for self-service purchases.
You can stop by for these products:
Apples.
Fresh Eggs
Our naturally raised, organically fed hens are making the best eggs you've ever tasted. (Limited availability)
Apple Wood
Apple, Pear, Maple and other woods available as logs, smoking chunks, chips. Apple wood burns as hot as Oak, but faster, making it ideal for cooking and heating.
What we'll have, and when:
The pears will be available in August and September. Apples in August, September and October.
Blueberries from late July through ealry August. Raspberries from late June through October.
Apple drops for feed
$50 per bin plus delivery.
Apple wood of all kinds. Cord-wood, camp bundles, smoking chunks and chips, mulch chips.
Be a Local Hero!
It is estimated that the farmer uses about 20% of the energy used to produce the food in a grocery store. The other 80% is burned in the storage, transportation, processing, wastage and packaging by the distribution systems after the food leaves the farm.
Eating our food is not only healthy, it saves massive amounts of energy.
Since food production takes a large amount of the power (and water) consumed in the States annually, eating local food, grown and sold at a local farm, can save more energy than any other action you can take.
