Located in Red Hook, NY, Rose Hill Farm is a historic family-owned pick-your-own fruit orchard established in 1798. We grow cherries, blueberries, plums, apricots, peaches and apples on ~114 acres of picturesque farmland. We embrace ecological growing practices that prioritize plant and soil health.
Whether itβs your first time visiting Rose Hill or your hundredth, we look forward to sharing our beautiful and peaceful slice of the Hudson Valley with you!
Hours
taproom
3-8 Thursday, October 1
3-8 Friday, October 2
12-6 Saturday, October 3
12-6 Sunday, October 4
Farm stand / PYO
3-7 Thursday, October 1*
3-7 Friday, October 2
9-5 Saturday, October 3
9-5 Sunday, October 4
*We are not usually open on Thursdays for pick-your-own and at our farm stand, but there are a lot of apples on the trees this week and weβve added an extra day!
*Please refer to Events Calendar or Google listings (Farm / Cidery) for private event closures or special holiday openings which may occasionally affect these hours.
Whatβs Pickinβ?
APPLES
We will have NINE varieties of apples available for pick-your-own this week! Weβll be adding Thursday from 3 to 7 pm as an extra day for farm stand/pick-your-own this week!
Royal Empire: New this week! Supposedly an improved strain of the original Empire, this sport colors redder and comes on about a week or so later than the original Empire. Crisp, juicy, sweet and tart in flavor. A really beautiful New York apple. These four rows are found way on top of the hill behind the peach block. These trees are some of the oldest trees on the property, planted in 1984 by Karen and Dave Fraleigh alone, sometime soon after they were married.
Jonagold: New this week! A cross between... Jonathan and Golden Delicious. Released by the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station in 1968. These large dark-red streaked over yellow background apples are very sweet and crisp. Beautiful and tasty. Not great for storage, but great for baking. Although not very complex in flavor, Jonagold is a pretty exceptional piece of fruit for eating fresh. This variety is located in the Seymour Block, which is all the way up the hill, to the right, on the back of the property, right next to Phil Seymour's old property. There is also a separate row found in the Lower Center Hill Block, three rows up from the pond. Limited quantities.
Cameo: New this week! Discovered as a chance seedling in between a Red Delicious orchard and a Golden Delicious orchard in Washington State in 1987. Red streaked skin over a green, sometimes orangish background. Sweet, mildly tangy flavor. Good for fresh eating, salads, and baking. A great storage apple. This variety is found up the main orchard road on the left in the Farm Stand Block, rows 3 & 4. Limited quantities.
Golden Delicious: New this week! No crosses here. A chance seedling found on the Mullins' property in West Virginia and first marketed in 1914. A fairly large and conic apple with light green to yellow skin. Very sweet in flavor - some complexity in the sweetness, somewhat fruity and a touch of honey flavor when fully ripe. Great for fresh eating, sauces, and salads. This variety is found up the main orchard road on the left in the Farm Stand Block, rows 5 & 6.
Winter Banana: New this week! This apple originated on the David Flory farm in Cass County, Indiana around 1876. It is a strikingly beautiful apple with a waxy light-yellow background and a pink blush. After a month in storage (but doesn't store well into Winter as the name might suggest), it tastes sweeter and there is the faintest hint of banana flavor. Not great in the kitchen. All in all, it is a stunner on the eyes and after a month in storage is a great eating apple. This variety is located up the hill near the Jonagold on the last row of apples in Seymour Field. Limited quantities.
Shizuka: New this week! A cross between Golden Delicious and Indo, this modern Japanese apple is light green turning slightly yellowish with a crisp and light texture. A sibling of Mutsu. Large fruit amd very sweet, almost no noticeable acidity. Turns color from green to light green to yellow. The two rows of this variety are located up the main orchard road on the right, just above (East of) the Honeycrisp. *The lighter colored green fruit will be more ripe. Similar to how the Ginger Gold ripens. Limited quantities.
Royal Court: A limb sport of the original Cortland discovered in Nova Scotia by Jacob Hartenhof. A relatively large apple with dark red to purple skin and white flesh. Complex sweet, tart flavor. Very aromatic. Great for fresh eating and really holds its own in the kitchen. (These trees were planted in 2016, have a beautiful crop load this year, and are found going up the secondary orchard road between the Center Hill Block and Pines Block, and found in both blocks). Possibly final week.
Empire: A cross of McIntosh and Golden Delicious, made in 1945. The seed was produced in Claverack, NY (about 20 minutes drive north of here), then propagated in Geneva, NY by Roger D. Way and introduced in 1966. Creamy white flesh with both a sweet and tart flavor. Juicy and crisp. Good for fresh eating, salads, baking, and sauces. If used in applesauce, the sauce turns pink! (This variety is located up the main orchard road on the right. There are two rows below the Jonamac and two rows above the Jonamac. The darker colored fruit will be more ripe.)
Jonamac: Introduced in 1944 at the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station. A cross between Jonathan and McIntosh. Acidic and slightly tart now, and in the next couple of weeks as the fruit hangs, they develop some sweetness and more balanced flavor. It turns out, these trees are some of the oldest on the farm here, planted in 1978 and 1979. For this week, look for the darkest fruits as they will be the ripest and have the fullest flavor. This variety is located up the main orchard road, Center Hill Block, on the righthand side of the road. There are four rows, situated between the Empire. Final week!
We will have all of these varieties available pre-picked at the farm stand.
We will also have the following varieties available pre-picked at the farm stand, among others:
Idared: New this week! A cross between Jonathan x Wagener, introduced in 1942 by the Idaho Experiment Station. A wonderful apple with perfectly balanced sweetness and tartness. Fine textured, white flesh, and tastes like an apple in the best way. Richly flavored and juicy. Excellent for eating, applesauce, baking, etc. Multi-purpose apple that does a lot of things really well. Limited quantities.
Spartan: New this week! A cross of McIntosh and Yellow Newton made at the Dominion Experiment Station in British Columbia, Canada. Medium sized fruit, skin bright red, heavily washed with dark red. Beautiful fruit. Similar in flavor as McIntosh, maybe a little more vinous in flavor, but juicy, subacid, and pleasant to eat fresh or cook with. Extremely limited quantities.
20 Ounce: New this week! Originated on the farm of George Howland in Massachusetts in the 1840s. Very large green/yellowish skin, sometimes splashed with red or dark red streaks. Thick skin, moderately tender and mostly white flesh, juicy, subacid. An old favorite for making pies. Also great sliced with cheese. Limited quantities.
Cortland: A cross between Ben Davis and McIntosh, released to the public in 1915, and was the first apple released by the NYS Agricultural Experiment Station. Named for Cortland County, NY. Large, dark red skin, and soft creamy-textured white fleshed apple. Complex sweet/tart flavor. Good for fresh eating, best in sauces, pies, and salads.
PUMPKINS
The pumpkin patch is back! We do not plant pumpkins here. Instead, we place them in a freshly mowed field (between the larger Macoun trees that are on the left as you begin going up the main orchard road and the two rows of Macoun on the left in the Farm Stand Block). We have carving pumpkins as well as the small pie pumpkins. We will also have pumpkins situated around the farm stand.
APPLE TASTING #4
We will conduct an APPLE TASTING this Saturday morning at 10 am in the picnic area outside the farm stand. Come if you want to try some nice eating apples, cider apples, and crab apples! THIS ONE IS GOING TO BE A BANGER!
Join us in the taproom Thursday through Sunday for locally-crafted drinks and food pop-ups. Keep an eye on our events calendar for upcoming live music, featured ferments (tastings by other NYS makers), classes, festivals, ticketed dinners, and more. See you soon!
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Address: 14 Rose Hill Farm, Red Hook, NY 12571
Conveniently accessible from I-87 and the TSP yet peacefully tucked away off the beaten track.
Directions from NYC: Take Taconic State Parkway N to exit 67 (toward Pine Plains/Red Hook). Turn left at NY-199 W. Enter Village of Red Hook, NY-199 becomes Market St. Turn right onto Route 9. Turn right at Fraleigh Lane. Make left into Rose Hill Farm.