pick your own?

[winniplayhouse]

Can anyone recommend a nearby orchard that has "pick your own" fruit?

[mcdude]

Appleview Orchards in Pittsfield (about 20 minutes south of Alton)

Deer Cap Orchard
1275 Rt. 16
Ossipee
603-539-6030
Open: August-October, 9am-4pm.
PYO apples


Great Brook Farm
335 Hackleboro Rd.
Canterbury
603-783-4206
Open: September - November, 10am-5pm
Fresh apples, 12 varieties, fresh cider, local produce, pumpkins, gifts and much more, PYO, farm mkt. Pony rides, the "Haymazing Hay Maze", hayrides to orchard.

Hackleboro Orchards
Harry and Linda Weiser
Hackleboro Rd.
Canterbury
603-783-4248
Open: mid August-Thanksgiving, 9am-6pm daily, closed Tuesday.
Apples, cider, pies, pumpkins, mums, winter squash, cook books, jams and jellies, pickles, maple products, honey and honey comb, peaches, Pick-Your-Own blueberries, pears, 6 varieties of Pick-Your-Own apples, gifts, farm market. Scenic picnic area, mail order, weekend tractor rides, farm animals, buses welcome, school tours by appointment, Apple Appreciation day, 50 mile-plus view from our view-deck, annual Halloween Treasure Hunts
Visiting dogs on leashes welcome
visit the Hackleboro Orchard website


Hillcrest Farm
255 White Oaks Rd.
Laconia
603-524-1464
Open: mid June-October, 9am-5pm, daily
Strawberries, raspberries, apples and vegetables in season

Hollow Hill Farm
Hollow Hill Rd.
Tamworth
603-323-7456
Open: Labor Day -October 15, 9am-5pm, closed Tuesday and Wednesday
Apples and pumpkins, PYO. Apple picking in a small, well-groomed Orchard situated in a rural area with serene atmosphere and mountain views. Handicapped accessible.


Rockledge Orchard
Bernard and June Smith
Dana Hill Rd.
New Hampton
603-968-3648
Open: September 15 - November 15, 8am-6pm

Smith Orchard
184 Leavitt Road
Belmont (Belknap county)
Phone: 603-524-9000
Open: September 12, 2003; 8:30 to 5:00
Directions: 3 miles south of Laconia, NH off of routes 106 or 107 on Leavitt Road. 20 miles north of Concord, NH
Description: A beautiful, 75 year old Orchard, situated on 30 acres of land. Large standard trees and new semi-dwarf trees. Seven varieties of Apple available. We sell Pumpkins, Mum, Cider, Gourds, Corn Stalks and 'home-grown' Honey. Tractor rides into and out of the Orchard. Come visit us, bring a picnic and spend the day.
Apples: MacIntosh, Cortland, Macoun, Red Delicious, Yellow Delicious, Ginger Gold, Jonagold
Visit the Smith Orchard website

J.E. Smith Farm Orchard
346 Peacham Rd.
Ctr. Barnstead
603-776-6921
Open: 9am-6pm, daily
Directions: Located 1.5 miles off of Route 28
From the Epsom Rotary - 16 miles North, on right (follow signs)
From the alton Rotary - 6 miles South, on left (follow signs)
visit the J.E. Smith Farm Orchard website

Stonybrook Farm
David and Brenda Stowe
Glidden Rd. (2.2 miles E. of Gunstock Ski Area on Rt. 11A)
Gilford
603-293-4300.
Open: Labor Day-mid October, call for hours of operation.
Apples, cider, horse and hay wagon rides to and from orchard

Surowiec Farm
Steve Surowiec
Perley Hill Rd.
Sanbornton
603-286-4069
Open: September and October, 9am-5pm, Friday-Sunday
Apples, pumpkins, cider

After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost

My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree
Toward heaven still,
And there's a barrel that I didn't fill
Beside it, and there may be two or three
Apples I didn't pick upon some bough.
But I am done with apple-picking now.
Essence of winter sleep is on the night,
The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.
I cannot rub the strangeness from my sight
I got from looking through a pane of glass
I skimmed this morning from the drinking trough
And held against the world of hoary grass.
It melted, and I let it fall and break.
But I was well
Upon my way to sleep before it fell,
And I could tell
What form my dreaming was about to take.
Magnified apples appear and disappear,
Stem end and blossom end,
And every fleck of russet showing clear.
My instep arch not only keeps the ache,
It keeps the pressure of a ladder-round.
I feel the ladder sway as the boughs bend. And I keep hearing from the cellar bin
The rumbling sound
Of load on load of apples coming in.
For I have had too much
Of apple-picking: I am overtired
Of the great harvest I myself desired.
There were ten thousand thousand fruit to touch,
Cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.
For all
That struck the earth,
No matter if not bruised or spiked with stubble,
Went surely to the cider-apple heap
As of no worth.
One can see what will trouble
This sleep of mine, whatever sleep it is.
Were he not gone,
The woodchuck could say whether it's like his
Long sleep, as I describe its coming on,
Or just some human sleep.


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