Vermont Fruit

Grown with a Conscience.

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Vermont Fruit

Grown with a Conscience.

family owned & ecologically managed

- Shoreham, Vermont -

As one of the oldest continuously operating Orchards in Vermont, we take pride in growing over 100 varieties of apples, as well as peaches, pears, plums, cherries, nectarines, and berries. We are careful stewards of our land and grow our fruit following strict Eco Apple requirements while striving to minimize our carbon footprint and sustainably contribute to our community.

Our Orchard

Over 220 acres of fruit trees, with 104 apple varieties harvested last year.

Our Orchard

Over 220 acres of fruit trees, with 104 apple varieties harvested last year.

fun facts:

Our fruit is ecologically grown and third-party certified by the IPM institute.
Eight acres are certified Organic by Vermont Organic Farmers (VOF)
We grow over 100 varieties of apples, 20 varieties of pears, 12 varieties of plums, and 15 varieties of nectarines/peaches.
Our farm is electrically solar powered, with Solar Orchard #3 in the planning stages

The signs are up and the forecast looks great! Stop by the Farm Market tomorrow (sat) from 10-12 for directions to our pick-your-own cherries! 😋🍒

This Saturday from 10-12: Pick Your Own cherries!!! Jubileum are ripe and amazing. PLEASE call 802-897-2777 before you come over to make sure we still have some - the birds are still feasting. Yippee!

@near_and_geer knows what's up: "hard cider = hard life...said no one ever." Grab a can and get out - the days aren't getting any longer! 🌞

Summer Signage! We've got some pretty big news: we are doubling our Pick-Your-Own acreage to nearly 20 acres! 😮That means way more varieties and WAY more signs - 9 down, 141 to go. 🎨

Cherries have just started to color and the earliest should be ripe by next weekend. We have six varieties, some sweet and some tart, all available for PYO. Stay tuned!

It's a beautiful day in Shoreham! Thank you, sun, for giving us energy for our orchard's plants and facilities! #solar #photosynthesis

It's a beautiful day to thin peaches! 🍑 We had a heavy fruit set and need to remove about 80% of the fruit from each tree on all five acres of peaches and nectarines. Otherwise, the trees will be stressed and the fruit will be very small. Here, Ken carefully hand-thins peaches in our Audrey block. They'll be ripe before you know it and available for pick-your-own!

Got some low thunderheads over the main orchard right now...hoping the hail isn't too severe. Hail is one of our biggest threats throughout the summer, alongside drought and extreme temperature changes. Now dya see why we've invested so much into our 28 solar trackers and efficiency measures?

Spring cleaning unearthed these pick-your-own boxes. Stay tuned for a rough ripening schedule that'll come more into focus as the summer continues! Up first, cherries! 🍒

The '85 Landini might've gotten stuck, but we're loving the wet weather this spring. Compared to last May, our trees are much less stressed for water! That means bigger fruit and stronger trees that are less susceptible to disease! 🌦🚜

Middlebury folk: head over to Midd Discount Bev to stock up on your Sidria! The stack is going quick & we are out of grapes until late fall, so no more Sidria till 2018 🍇

Another day, another chance to interrupt some pest mating! 💫 We're focusing our efforts on dogwood borers, whose larvae do major damage to the trunks of trees. By hanging these super simple tags, we can confuse the males and keep em away from the ladies! This is a healthy, effective alternative to insecticides, and it's a great day to do it. (Also, check out those fruitlets! The trees are loaded!)

Gear up for a wicked local weekend with Sidria, a limited blend made with grapes grown on our vineyard and apples from our orchard. You can't get more VT than this! #802

Growing mulch in place! Baby raspberry bushes hide between winter rye, which we'll cut and leave in place as ground cover. We planted these bushes earlier this spring and have been tilling the soil surrounding them to keep competing weeds down, but are looking forward to the protection that fresh cut rye will bring our young plants and soil! 🌾

Like father, like son. Rupert scouts his next pruning cut in the Nine Block. These trees, planted in 2014, are in their second fruiting year and need their energy distributed between producing fruit and growing to full size, so we are spending quite a bit of time removing blossoms off the tops of their central leader to encourage growth. Springtime is busy! 💪

Time to disrupt some codling moth mating! Joe and Stephen are hanging plastic tags that slowly diffuse female codling moth pheromones, which confuse the males and prevent them from finding their intended mate. These tiny moths can cause enormous damage to our apples, boring deep into the seed cavity. Mating disruption is very effective and just one of the many ways we use Integrated Pest Management to keep our fruit, environment, and staff healthy. 🌱

Rows and rows of Honeycrisp blossoms in the Pinnacle block, looking west towards New York. Oh, spring! 🌱

Bloom just keeps getting better! The Kosui Pear trees are in a very healthy bloom, which makes us hopeful for an abundant fruit set and harvest in early fall. 🍐

OUR CIDERY

OUR CIDERY

Every single apple in our Vermont Hard Cider is pressed, fermented, and crafted at our orchard. This makes for a quality, local product that is fresh, crisp and deliciously drinkable.

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Visit & Find

Farm Market Open & Staffed Monday-Friday, 10-4

Visit & Find

Farm Market Open & Staffed Monday-Friday, 10-4

at the orchard

Farm Market Open Monday-Friday, 10-4
Pick-Your-Own from June-Nov

Tours of our facilities
Tastings

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on the road

Our fresh products are currently available in Vermont, New Hampshire, New York, and Massachusetts. Use our interactive map below to find an apple near you!

(Can't find us? Click here to download a request form that you can give to your local store manager. It's as easy as pie!)

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