The Orchard
Let us help you make apples a part of your family tradition!
Come out and enjoy the orchard throughout the entire year! Take family photos with a beautiful backdrop of apple blossoms in the spring, enjoy tours and fresh produce from our garden in the summer, taste test the apples then pick a pumpkin in the fall, and do all of your holiday shopping in the winter! The orchard is full of action and we welcome visitors at any time of the year!
Apple Varieties
August
Ginger Gold
Sweet Yellow
Makes great applesauce!
Hybrid Parentage - Golden Delicious, Albermarle, & Pippin
Introduced - 1960's
Wealthy
Tart
Earliest apple cultivar to thrive in Minnesota.
Created by Peter Gideon in 1868
Excellent for baking!
Zestar!
Sweet/Tart
U of MN release 1991
Hybrid Parentage - "State Fair" & "MN 1691"
Excellent for baking!
Eight new apple varieties are on their way! Plus we planted Cherries!
September
Chestnut Crab Apple
Sweet, delicious crab apple variety!
U of MN release 1949
Uses - Eating, Sauces, Pickling
Sansa
A medium sized red apple that originates from Japan!
Has a sweet, sharp flavor that is great for drying.
Honeycrisp
Sweet
Hybrid Parentage - "Keepsake" & Unknown
U of MN release 1991
Uses - Eating
Buckeye Gala
Sweet
Smaller size (great for school lunches!)
Uses - Eating
Estival
Sweet
Uses - Eating & Baking
SweeTango
Sweet & slightly tart
Hybrid Parentage - "Honeycrisp" & "Zestar!"
Uses - Fresh Eating, makes a great applesauce!
McIntosh
Tart
Medium size
Uses - Eating, Pies, Sauce
Cooks down well!
Royal Cortland
A great sweet/tart mix but a bit more on the tart side.
White flesh, Doesn't brown as easily
Uses - Eating, Salads, Sauce, Apple Butter
October
Snowsweet
Known for its snow white flesh that is extremely slow to brown. Great flavor balance that is mostly sweet and mildly tart.
MN 1505
A delicious yellow apple! Crisp and juicy!
Honeygold
Sweet, Yellow
Hybrid Parentage - "Golden Delicious" & "Haralson"
U of MN release 1943
Uses - fresh eating & sauce
Haralson
Tart
U of MN release 1922
Hybrid Parentage - "Malinda" & "Wealthy"
Uses - Eating, Pies
Cooks - Firm, Holds slice
B-51
Sweet & Extraordinarily crisp!
Incredibly long refrigerated shelf life
Uses - Eating
Created in Minnesota