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Apple Holler
Enjoy a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables, including apples, peaches, pumpkins and sugar snap peas. Hayride and other activities, such...
Currans Orchard
Pick your own apples, raspberries and pumpkins and enjoy apple donuts, award-winning cider, fresh pie, honey, maple syrup, jams, wagon rides, straw...
Garden Patch Farms & Orchard
Enjoy three seasons of fresh fruits and vegetables at the Garden Patch. U-pick or farm stand available for strawberries, raspberries, cherries and...
Garwood Orchard
Pick your own apples, pumpkins and raspberries throughout the fall. Baked and canned goods, apple cider, veggies and more fruit are available at the...
Nye's Apple Barn
Apples are the main attraction mid-September through October, but Nye's also sells berries and other fruit as well as corn and other vegetables. Call...
Pavolka Fruit Farm
1776 N. Wozniak Road, Michigan City, Ind.Call ahead and one of the Pavolkas can take you out to pick apples, berries, pears and plums.
Royal Oak Farm Orchard
Pick apples, raspberries and pumpkins. There is a play area, pedal tractors, carousel, petting zoo and train ride. Applefest runs on Saturdays and...
The Elegant Farmer
Highways ES & J, Mukwonago, Wis.Autumn Harvest Festival weekends feature apple and pumpkin picking, tractor-pulled hayrides, and vintage trolley rides on The East Troy Electric Railroad....
Tree-Mendus Fruit Farm
The high elevation at Tree-Mendus means the farm grows fruit throughout the summer and fall. Cherries ripen in mid-June and early July; apricots, raspberries...
Billy Boy’s Blueberry Barn
Pick your own blueberries July and August (call for specific dates). There is also a farm stand with ready-picked blueberries, other blueberry...
