Orchalaw Farm

We went here in late October because other orchards were picked out. It’s a beautiful, fairly large orchard, great for viewing fall colours, and minimal crowds. Lots of parking; well organized orchard, and offers a free wagon ride to take you to further apple tree types. But, it is quite expensive. There is a minimum $ 25 charge per family, which is their price for one smallish bag (bushel?). Staff were friendly. Also do not allow coffee to be brought into the orchard, you have to finish your coffee before you head in.

We only came to this location because majority of all the other apple picking places were finished with apple picking… we came here on oct 19 and it was quite packed with ppl… there was only 2 types of apples to pick which are IDAred and Mutsu, which Mutsu was the sweetest and there was very few left to be picked… this place to me is rather pricy, it’s a minimum purchase of $ 22 a bushel which we got about 24 – 26 apples and they also have pumpkin picking for 3 for $ 22., but we just did the apples
Wagon took us to the apple picking which honestly wasn’t that far, probably a 10mim walk but hey it was fun and free, we decided to go for the Mutsu cuz it was the sweet and there was barely any left, they provided us with ladders which was good since most of the apples were up top
On our way back we got scolded by this farmer who was telling us we just killed 3 generations of that apple because there was a couple of twigs on the apple stem… whatever, no one ever told us how to pick apples and there was no sign or anything
Won’t be coming back here again