Stone Ridge Orchard: two-century farm in Stone Ridge with u-pick apples, Asian pears, berries, hard cider tasting room, and stand May through December.
Stone Ridge Orchard has been farmed for two centuries on 115 acres of the Rondout Valley, and the operation still runs at that scale: a farm stand open daily from May through December, 9am to 6pm, stocked with cider, jams, baked goods, and produce grown a few hundred feet from the register.
U-pick starts around Labor Day weekend with apples and Asian pears, then widens through fall to raspberries and pumpkins; blueberries come earlier in summer. The farm also runs an organic CSA from June through November for anyone who'd rather get a weekly box than fill their own basket. U-pick hours run 10am to 5pm, an hour later start than the farm stand, so don't show up at 9 expecting the orchard gates open.
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