Orchards near Columbia, MO

ElderBlossom View grows elderberries in New Bloomfield, Missouri, and turns the estate fruit into pure elderberry juice, syrup, and wine. The tasting room pours those wines and elderberry cocktails on Sundays and by appointment in winter, and the winery sells year-round at Columbia Farmers Market. Elderberry is one of the few crops well suited to mid-Missouri's climate.

New Franklin

Huffstutter Orchards grows apples near New Franklin, in Howard County along the Missouri River between Boonville and Fayette. The orchard offers apple picking in season along with apple products such as cider, butter and preserves. Central Missouri apples ripen from late summer into fall. The farm's website posts current details; no phone or email was listed on the page.

Mexico

Hickory Ridge Orchard grows apples and pumpkins you can pick yourself or buy from the shop, in Audrain County east of Mexico. Fall weekends add a corn maze, a kiddie maze, a corn cannon, and tractor hayrides, plus a petting zoo and face painting for younger visitors. School groups and birthday parties book ahead. The stand takes cash, checks, and major cards. It's on Audrain Road 820.

Mexico

Hickory Ridge Orchard grows tree fruit outside Mexico, Missouri, in the farm country of Audrain County. Orchards in this part of the state usually bring apples in late summer and fall, sometimes with peaches earlier in the season. The rural Audrain Road location on the town's edge puts it among the row-crop and livestock farms of north-central Missouri.