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Directions: Hours: 8 a.m.-5
p.m., Monday-Friday November - August Special Comments: A Virginia Century Farm. DIckie Bros. Orchard is one of Virginia's oldest farms continuously owned by the same family. Orchard is located at the foot of Little de Priest Mountain near National Forest, Blue Ridge Parkway, Crabtree Falls and Wintergreen Resort. Products: Select-your-own apples - Paulared, Gala, McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Liberty, Red and Golden Delicious, Empire, Jonagold, Winesap, Stayman, Rome, Granny Smith, Fuji, Pink Lady. Pick-your-own offered for most varieties, especially Fuji, October 15 - 22. Apple butter, fresh cider available.
Directions: From Charlottesville, south on U.S. 29 approximately 30 miles. Turn right on Drumheller Orchard Lane. Orchard located 1 mile behind Nelson County High School. From Lynchburg, north on U.S. 29 approximately 30 miles. Turn left on Drumheller Orchard Lane. Hours: 9 a.m.-5 p.m., Monday-Saturday; 12 noon-5 p.m., Sunday; September 6 - December 21. Closed Thanksgiving Day and Sundays following. Special Comments: Apple butter making, food, country music, free cider samples, crafts, large selection of apples, hayrides to the pumpkin patch, special activities for children; tour groups welcomed Products: Fresh-picked peaches July 15 - August 15. Call ahead for varieties and ripening dates. Select-your-own
apples; Albemarle Pippin, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, York, Stayman,
Winesap, Rome, Granny Smith, Fugi, Gala. Fresh cider, apple butter, pumpkins,
honey, cured hams, and sorghum molasses.
Directions: 30 miles south of Charlottesville on Route 29. Take Route 56 west for 12 miles. One mile past Tyro Post Office sign on right; turn right on 682 to end. Hours: 8 a.m.- 5 p.m., Monday-Friday, August 1 - September 15; 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday - Saturday, September 15 - December 1; 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday, December 1-April 1. Special Comments: Appalachian Trail with overnight shelter adjoining orchard. Stocked trout stream near orchard. Crabtree Falls 4 miles away. Products: Fresh-picked apples - Paulared, Gala (August 1 - September 15); Red Delicious, Golden Delicious (September 15 - April 1); Rome, Stayman, Granny Smith, Fuji and Pink Lady (October 15 - April 1); cider (September 15 - December 1). |
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INC.Ruth Flippin or Anne Kidd Directions: From Charlottesville, take Route 29 south to Route 56 west. Go 1 mile, turn right on Roseland Road. At stop sign, turn left and go over a bridge. Turn right on Route 56 west. Stay on 56 west for 6 miles and shed is on left. From Lynchburg, take Route 29 north to Route 151, 5 miles north of Amherst to Route 56 west. Stay on 56 west for 6 miles, shed on left. Call or write for newsletter with map. Hours: 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Monday - Saturday; 1 - 5 p.m. Sunday, September 11 - October 31. After October 31, open Monday - Friday, 10 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Special Comments: Apple Butter Makin' Festivals first and third Saturdays in October. Apple butter making, food, music, crafts, pumpkin patch, large selection of apples, and children's games. Call before you come after Thanksgiving. Products: Pick-your-own apples - Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, - third weekend in September; Rome - second weekend in October. At our packing shed, select-your-own apples from freshly picked varieties - Empire, Gala, Red Delicious, Golden Delicious, Pippin, Winesap, Fuji, Mutsu, Stayman, Granny Smith, York, Red Rome, Idared, Paulared, Braeburn, Jonathan, Lady apples. Call for availability of apples.
Directions: From Lynchburg, take Route 29 north 30 miles to Route 56 west. Travel 2.5 miles to shed on right. Hours: 9 a.m.- 5 p.m., Monday-Saturday. Closed Sunday. Special Comments: We have one of the largest antique farm equipment and tool displays in the state, which includes antique plows and planters, Indian artifacts, antique apple graders, antique cider press, antique hand tools, various other antique country store display items. Products: Fresh-picked premium quality, tree ripened peaches available July 1 - September 15. Yellow varieties include Sentry, Redhaven, Loring, Salem, Blake and Laurol. White-fleshed peach varieties include White Lady, Sugar Giant and Snow Giant amoung others. We now grow Asian pears. Fresh-picked apples available August 15 through November 10. Varieties include Gala, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Fuji, Braeburn, and Pink Lady. We carry an exceptional selection of jams, jellies, and cider including but not limited to, peach cider, peach salsa, F.R.O.G. jam, blackberry cider, moonshine jelly, juice-sweetened jams, Homestead ice cream, and slushies made from our own cider. Free samples on everything.!
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