Come on out for a day of sun and exercise in the largest farm between NYC and Albany! Pick Apples and play in the orchards and on the landing strip. Bring balls, bikes and frisbees and play in this huge expanse of country property. Practice your cartwheels and handstands! Bring binoculars for examining bugs and insects, and maybe a magnifying glass also. Lie on the grass and listen to the buzz of bees and insects on our pristine farmland! Try that in the big city! No noisy traffic here, just quiet, lazy peace.

First load up on goodies at the farm stand! Or bring a picnic lunch for eating in the orchard and then head out to the orchards! Its a nice hike passing the old farmhouse with its beautiful gardens, the big old red barn and all the tractors and farm tools. Then over the aqueduct, a pipeline that supplies NYC with its drinking water from far up in the mountains. If you choose not to hike, you can arrange a wagon ride in advance for $1/person, at least 20 people per ride. Remember kids are people too and pay $1 for a round trip to and from the orchard.

ORCHARD ENTRANCE FEE INCLUDES APPLES

      $9.00 kids 10 years old and up (this includes your 1st peck size bag) Teachers and chaperones also get to pick and all pay $9.00 also. Please don't ask for discounts for large groups! Big groups are NOT easier to handle for us. Actually, it would be easier to just pick the apples and wholesale them. NO DISCOUNTS, FOR ANYBODY! Sorry if that sounds harsh! Let's talk about something else!
      $4.50 kids under 10 years old (this includes the 1st 1/2 peck size bag of apples).
     Bring extra money for spending at the fruit stand. Water, cider, juice, pumpkins and gourds for decorating at home and the classroom. And the delicious cider doughnuts, beloved by all our customers, young and old!

In this day and age when a lot of city kids think their food comes from the supermarket or fast food restaurants, we will give them a more sophisticated look at the farming process by observing a large commercial farm in operation. Watch the growing process. We grow 20 kinds of apples, nectarines, peaches, plums, cherries for selling to supermarkets around the world. Our fruit goes to Europe and Israel as well as all over the USA. We also encourage packing house tours, to see the care we take on a production line to sort and pack up the apples for shipping. We also have huge cold storage rooms that can hold our entire apple crop for up to a year in an oxygenless environment (optional Chemistry lesson) for selling in December, April and other months when apples are not harvested. That's why you find apples year round in your local supermarket! Talk about learning experiences for your kids!! These tours are available, by planning in advance with one of our family farmers for $1 per person.

We have numerous lakes on our property, one of which we call Louie's Lake, because Louie, the swan flew in one day, a few years ago, and took over. He had several goslings and a mate, Louise, who made the lake their own nursery and have been returning ever since.

We encourage you to come to the farm for an exciting learning experience, where we can help you teach your kids the basics of life, like where their food comes from! All our family farmers love kids and have a strong interest in their learning. Grandpa Ted, Dad, Mike, Mom, Tammy and our newest family farmer Colin are very happy to invest a little of their time so the kids of this world understand it better! Food is important to this planet and knowing how its produced, stored and distributed is the most critical knowledge for our kids! We were shocked into how critical this learning is a few years ago, when a teacher called in January, when the snow was 3 feet deep in our orchards and asked if she could bring her kids apple picking! Apple picking occurs 1 time a year in September and October as with all other veggies and fruit and our children should know how nature's cycles make food available to them.

Remember to bring extra $ for:

 Entrance to Orchard and Apple Picking ($9 over 10 yrs old or $4.50 under 10!
 Bringing home crazy squash and veggies for your Mom and family to cook!
 Homemade jams and pickles!
 Donuts, cookies and other goodies!
 Wagon ride, packing house tours, $1 each.

Additional Note: If you're bringing 180 kids, do it in cycles 15 - 30 min apart for better service when you arrive. We can spend more quality time if we have a space between groups. Thanks for considering our farm for your learning experience and we'll do our best to make it effective for the kids!