Harvest Schedule

Our apple varieties and the best times throughout the season to pick them at their peak flavor.

Current & Upcoming Varieties

McIntosh

The quintessential New England Apple. Tender, white flesh, sweet with a slight tang, and very juicy. Best for eating and apple sauce. Available throughout the fall season.

Cortland

All-purpose juicy apple with white flesh and a bit of tartness. It is an excellent for eating, pies, and baking. Also terrific for salads and freezing because they do not turn brown quickly when cut. Cortland apples are available throughout the fall season.

Macoun

The Macoun apple is a very crisp, moist apple with a white flesh. The flavor is sweet and is our most popular eating apple. Excellent in salads, pies, and sauce. Macoun is a cross between McIntosh and Jersey Black varieties. Best if picked in late September-October.

Empire

A cross between Red Delicious and McIntosh, Empire apples are a sweet-tart combination that's great for everything. Best if picked in late September-October.

Golden (Yellow) Delicious

A honey sweet apple that has a mild flavor. Very juicy, crisp and light yellow flesh. It is excellent for eating and is great for pies, baking, and freezing. It is not just a yellow version of a Red Delicious.

Autumn Gala

A hard and crunchy apple. It is a sweet apple with an orange blush over a yellow background. Great for eating, as well as added to salads, cooked and for creating sauces.

A relatively new variety that “packs a loud crunch”! It is a cross between Honey Crisp and Fuji and will be your new favorite apple. This comes in mid October.

Evercrisp

Originally discovered as a limb sport of Honeycrisp, Firestorm™ has many of the same characteristics as a Honeycrisp but with a striking red skin. Firestorm™ ripens in late September, producing sweet, crisp apples. This uniquely colored delectable apple is perfect for autumn snacking right off the tree.

Coming Fall 2028 - Firestorm

Coming Fall 2029 - Gala

Gala is an apple cultivar with a sweet, mild flavor, a crisp but not hard texture, and a striped or mottled orange or reddish appearance. It originating from New Zealand in the 1930s.

Peak Apple Ripeness Calendar