Orchards near Putney, VT

Putney

Green Mountain Orchards grows apples, blueberries, peaches, plums, raspberries, and pumpkins on West Hill Road in Putney, in southeastern Vermont. Alongside pick-your-own fruit, the farm is known for its baked goods and hilltop views over the Connecticut River valley. It runs Wednesday through Monday during the season, 8:30 to 5:30, and closes Tuesdays. Apple and pumpkin picking peak in the fall.

E. Dummerston

Dwight Miller Orchards grows apples on Miller Road in East Dummerston, a Connecticut River valley village just north of Brattleboro. It's a long-established family orchard in a stretch of southern Vermont known for its fruit, with the apple harvest running September into October. The farm keeps a website at dwightmillerorchards.com, though its public pages weren't accessible at the time of writing. Fresh fruit and farm-stand sales anchor the fall season.

Walpole

Dummerston

Dummerston

Scott Farm grows about 130 varieties of heirloom apples plus other unusual fruit on Kipling Road in Dummerston, farming the land as an Eco-certified orchard. The 1791 farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and stewarded by Landmark Trust USA. It sells hard cider, fruit CSA shares, and apple gift boxes, with a farm market and Pippin's Cafe open weekends in summer.

Walpole

Alyson's Orchard spreads across 350 acres above the Connecticut River in Walpole, growing apples plus pick-your-own blueberries and raspberries. The property doubles as an event venue, hosting weddings and reunions in a post-and-beam hall with lodging in a restored 1860s farmhouse and a rustic lodge. Guests can swim and fish the pond, and the farm sells mulch and handmade wooden picnic tables.

Brattleboro

Cortland Hill Orchard grows apples on Miller Road in Brattleboro, in southeastern Vermont near the Connecticut River and the New Hampshire line. The orchard's name points to the Cortland, a classic Northeast baking and eating apple. Small hillside orchards in this area usually open for the fall harvest.

Springfield

Wellwood Orchards runs pick-your-own apples, strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, plums, and pumpkins on Wellwood Orchards Road in Springfield, in southeastern Vermont. A country store sells fresh-baked goods, Vermont maple syrup, and honey, and a petting zoo makes it a family stop. The farm opens seven days a week, 9 to 5, in season; call ahead to confirm what's ripe for picking.

Colrain

Pine Hill Orchards farms more than 80 acres in the hills above Colrain, growing apples, peaches, plums, and blueberries alongside fall pumpkins. The farm store stays open daily from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., pressing its own cider and baking pies and bread on site. A deli counter slices Boar's Head meats and cheeses to order for grinders and sandwiches. It's a working farm first — the food service grew up around what they already grow.

Shelburne Falls

Apex Orchards has grown fruit on this Shelburne Falls hillside since 1946, on land farmed since 1828, and the variety list runs past apples into peaches, nectarines, apricots, pears, Asian pears, quince, blueberries, and table grapes. Pick-your-own apples run mid-September through October, with a 50-mile view from the orchard rows. The farm store stays open daily August through December, and fresh donuts show up on weekends only.

Shelburne Falls

Shelburne

Mohawk Orchards has run as a pick-your-own operation on the Mohawk Trail in Shelburne Falls since 1984. It's a small operation — a couple of people work the orchard — so hours can shift with the harvest and weather. Call ahead before driving out. The orchard sits along Colrain Road, not far from Kenburn Orchards, a separate farm that visitors sometimes confuse it with.

Shelburne

Kenburn Orchards has farmed the same land along the Mohawk Trail in Shelburne for close to a century. The family operation combines pick-your-own blueberries in late summer with a choose-and-cut Christmas tree lot in December, plus a small bed and breakfast on the property. This listing's state field says Alabama; the farm is actually in Franklin County, Massachusetts.

Shelburne

Shelburne

Kenburn Orchards grows pick-your-own blueberries along the Mohawk Trail and cuts its own choose-and-cut Christmas trees each winter. The Shelburne property also runs a small bed and breakfast alongside the orchard. Late-season blueberry picking typically runs Saturday and Sunday, 9am to 5pm, weather permitting.

Hancock

A family-run orchard on Duncan Road in Hancock, growing apples for pick-your-own and a seasonal farm stand. McIntosh and Cortland are the mainstays. The orchard sits off routes 202 and 123, reachable by Forest Road or Norway Hill Road. Contact details are thin online, but the pick-your-own listings confirm it's still going.