Welcome to Cobble Knoll Orchard
Pick your own apples at our beautiful orchard in Rutland County, Vermont!
Our Vermont Apple Orchard offers over 80 different types of apples including your favorites for fresh eating such as Mac, Honeycrisp, Autumn Crisp and Cortland. We also have difficult to find cooking apples such as Calville Blanc D’Hiver, Rhode Island Greenings, and Zestars. For the home cider-maker we have cider varieties such as Dabinette, Ellis Bitter and Franklin Cider Apples. You can pick your own apples, pears (and more!) or there is always a variety of apples available at the farm stand.
Fresh from our family orchard to your family table!
Traditional Family Orchard
Open August 23 – October 27, Open Daily from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Fresh Pressed Cider
Using a mix of Cobble Knoll apples in each batch, depending what’s in season, our cider is as fresh as it comes! <
Donuts & Baked Goods
Bring home our delicious homemade donuts, cookies, pies and other tasty baked treats. Available daily or by pre-order.
Sunflowers & Fresh Cut Flowers
We’ve also just planted sunflowers and hope to have a magnificent, thriving sunflower field and other fresh cut flowers for you to enjoy.
Growing Practices
It is important to us that we maintain stewardship of this land and treat it with the utmost care.
Orchard Update
It’s been a busy spring here at the orchard. Like the rest of the Northeast, the weather has been a rollercoaster. It was in the mid-80s in April and the trees were fooled into thinking it was time to blossom. We had a very cold night and the apple blossoms were at a stage called tight cluster, when they are sensitive to temperatures below 28 degrees F.
We had an exciting early morning visit by a friend with a helicopter, who was able to find a warm pocket of air and push it down over the orchard. Only time will tell if it was helpful – even normal looking blossoms can still have internal damage and never progress into apples. We will keep you updated as the season progresses.
Testimonials
This place is great. I couldn’t count all the different types of apples you could pick. The views while picking is beautiful. Now if you like apple cider, this is the holy grail of apple cider. I’ve had apple cider from all over but this place is the best. I have actually thought of driving the 275 mile one way trip to pick up more to bring home. It’s that good. I will be back.
Chris Clark
Tracy Velazquez