Orchards near Elkhart, IN

Goshen

Goshen

Known locally as Kercher's, Sunrise Orchards has farmed 300 acres in Goshen for more than a century, growing sweet corn, pumpkins, 19 apple varieties, cabbage, squash, and peaches. The farm market also carries honey, maple syrup, noodles, cheese, meat, jam, cider, and apple butter, plus baked goods from the on-site kitchen. Fall brings u-pick apples and pumpkins, hayrides, and a corn maze.

Cassopolis

Diamond Lake Orchard runs as a self-serve apple shed and small fruit winery near Cassopolis, open daily from 10 to 6 once the season starts in late August. Thirteen apple varieties come through as they ripen — Honeycrisp, Gala, and Jonathan among them — alongside honey, cider, and hard cider. Weekend wine tastings run Saturday and Sunday afternoons, and this season brings the orchard's first estate wine from vines planted four years ago.

Cassopolis

Three Rivers

Corey Lake Orchards has farmed 150 acres of orchards, vineyards, and fields since 1961. The farm presses heritage apples into hard cider, ferments its own wines and spirits, and bakes fruit pies and donuts on-site alongside blueberries, strawberries, and a full run of vegetables. It calls itself a marketplace for locally grown and locally made goods, and the shelves back that up with products from other regional producers too.

Three Rivers

Niles

Lehman's Orchard farms 55 acres of U-pick fruit on Portage Road in Niles, growing apples, pears, strawberries, raspberries, cherries, wine grapes, and tomatoes. Tart cherries ripen first, around July 4th, with blueberries following in late July. The farm turns its own fruit into wines, hard ciders, relishes, salsas, jams, and fudge, sold at a small on-site market open most days of the week.

Niles

Berrien Springs

Bixby Farms has worked the same ground in Berrien Springs for generations, growing strawberries, raspberries and peaches for u-pick alongside asparagus and rhubarb sold at the farm stand. They also jar their own salsas and jams and sell farm-fresh eggs. The family's pitch is simple — a straight line from grower to plate — and the market stays open through the spring-to-fall harvest run.

North Liberty