Hours

taproom

3-8 Thursday, August 27

Closed for a private event Friday, August 28

12-6 Saturday, August 29

12-6 Sunday, August 30

Farm stand / PYO

3-7 Friday, August 28

9-5 Saturday, August 29

9-5 Sunday, August 30

*Please refer to Events Calendar or Google listings (Farm / Cidery) for private event closures or special holiday openings which may occasionally affect these hours.

What’s Pickin’?

PEACHES
We will have limited quantities of pre-picked yellow fleshed and white fleshed globe peaches. Peach season is basically coming to an end, but there will be bits and pieces being harvested over the next couple of weeks.

BLUEBERRIES
Blueberry harvest is winding down, but there are still plenty of blueberries for the pick-your-own harvest! We will have 1 variety of blueberry available for the picking: Elliott. Now is a great time to put some blueberries in the freezer for the wintertime if one hasn’t done so already.  

APPLES
We will have the following varieties of pre-picked apples (some in limited quantities - marked with an asterisk) available in the farm stand.

Ginger Gold: A seedling apple variety that appeared in the orchard of Clyde and Ginger Harvey in Nelson County, Virginia in 1980. It is a medium to large apple (there are some real whoppers hanging out there now!), round to oblate, with green to yellow colored skin. When the skin turns yellowish, it is ripe, crisp, and juicy with a pleasantly sweet flavor. The cream-colored flesh is slow to oxidize making it great for salads and desserts as it holds its shape when cooked. What more is there to say? This is a wonderful early apple to continue ushering us into apple season proper. We usually have these available for pick-your-own, but these trees were hit hard by the April freeze, and most of the fruits high up in the trees and are only able to be harvested from a ladder. So we will harvest them this year and bring them to the farm stand. Thank you for your understanding with this. 

*Chestnut Crab: (Melba x open-pollinated) This gem of a fruit was released by the University of Minnesota in 1946. Larger than your typical crab apple, averaging 1.5"-2" in diameter. Mostly sweet, well-balanced acidity, and a unique nutty vanilla flavor. Great for fresh eating, sauce, and pickles. As the kids are going back to school, include these in their lunch boxes and make your kid the envy of the lunchroom. 

*Paula Red: The apple that stole my heart and brought me into the game. Some call it a mediocre apple, they may be right, who’s to say really? But for late-August this apple really shines. Discovered in 1960 in Sparta, Michigan, and introduced in 1967. White flesh, firm, crisp, juicy, and nice subacid flavor. Eats similar to a McIntosh.

*Kerr: A truly special fruit. This variety was created by crossing Dolgo and Haralson done by W.L. Kerr at the Canada Experimental Farm in Manitoba and was introduced in 1952. Striking garnet red turning to deep purple skin, small, roughly 1-1.5" in diameter. A very condensed and robust flavor - sweet, tart, and heavy on the rose flavor. Great for eating if you are into a little more complex and intense flavors. Makes phenomenal jams/jellies. 

*Chenango Strawberry: Known since 1850, there are two origin stories - one that says this apple originated in Lebanon, Madison County, New York. The other says that it originated in Connecticut and was brought to Chenango County, NY. Either way, this is a really beautiful, aromatic, and deliciously sweet apple. The distinctive conic shape, the pale green/yellow skin that has a pink/red striped blush on it, and the mild sweetness really sets this apple apart. It also makes incredible applesauce. 

PLUMS
We will have very limited quantities of pre-picked Long John plums available at the farm stand. Long John is a European plum introduced in 1993 by the breeders at the New York State Agricultural Research Station in Geneva, NY. It is a long, tear-drop shaped plum with sweet-tart firm amber colored flesh. Excellent for fresh eating, baking, jams, and drying into prunes. 

We will also extremely limited quantities of pre-picked Blue Damson plums available at the farm stand. Blue Damson is a small (1” diameter), round European plum. More tart than sweet. Highly sought after for making profoundly flavored jams. Great for fresh eating as well if one likes a plum on the tarter side. When cooked, the sweetness really shines.

FLOWERS
This is THE week to come see the sunflower fields IN FULL GLORY. Excellent harvesting potential as well as photographing your loved ones immersed in a seemingly never-ending sea of flowers!

We planted SUNFLOWERS in 3 fields this year. The best place for pick-your-own sunflower harvesting this week will be in the East Pump Pond Block AND Mid-Pines Field, which is just up the hill from the zinnia patch. 

We planted a small field of ZINNIAS again this year, and they are really popping up and blooming now! They are in the Center Hill and Pines Blocks. If going up the main orchard road, take a right as soon as you cross over the culvert pipe before you get to the first row of apple trees. Continue walking towards the right and look left. If going from the blueberries, walk up the secondary orchard road and they will be on your left and right after you've passed a few rows of apples trees.

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.