Philip Orchards in Claverack: pick-your-own since 1973, 23 apple and pear varieties, no entry fee, rolling meadows. Families drive here for decades.
Philip Orchards has been pick-your-own only since 1973, with no gimmicks, no entry fee, and nothing built up around the fruit. The family-owned property spans orchards, meadows, and woods laced with farm roads. You check in at the barn yard, get a map and a free half-bushel bag, and drive yourself out to wherever the crew says the picking is best that day.
The farm roads are rutted with rocks, ditches, and the occasional woodchuck hole, so go slow.
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