Payment options

• Bring cash, a check, or Senior or WIC Farm Direct Dollars to pay what you can for organic produce and goods using our Ball-Head Payment-Drop Extravaganza! Essentially grab a tennis ball, stuff the tennis ball with your form of payment, drop the ball into the hole, hear a ding & now you’ve paid! Note: Farm Direct Dollars can only be used to purchase fresh vegetables, fruit & herbs; you cannot purchase any value-added products like fruit sauces or pickles, nuts or dried herbs.

• Pay online via this webpage or pay on Venmo using the QR code posted at the farmstand.

U-Pick Organic Fruit - U-pick is closed for 2026!

Meander our long, lumpy orchard; enjoy the sounds of songbirds, goats & pigs; and breath in clean fresh air on our pesticide-free farm. We are open through September 30th every day of the week during daylight hours to u-pick fruit. A full paper grocery bag or reusable tote of apples, pears, or plums is $20.

Our u-pick is self serve & autonomous. You likely will not see any staff. Please read this webpage in advance to answer your questions and follow the signs to the orchard.

Know before you pick:

• Parking: You can park in the grassy flat area near the driveway entrance & farmstand.

• Where to go: The orchard is directly behind (west of) the farmstand & our living willow domes. Do not tour the farm or approach the farm animals without staff or volunteers present. You can observe animals several feet away from the electric fence enclosures if you see them as you walk in the orchard. If you walk down the road to the white hoop house & barn brown, you’ve gone too far. Turn around and head right after the portapotty.

  • There is a portapotty tucked in trees to the left of the white hoop house near the farm road / driveway.

• Picking tips & fruit quality: Pick fruit directly from the tree and leave fallen fruit on the ground.

  • Grade a apples: Best for fresh fruit eating — look for fruit with no holes or bruises. Grade a apples may have a moldy core from a wet spring. As long as the flesh looks good & firm, it’s safe to eat. Remove the core.

  • Grade b apples: Fruit with small holes have been visited by coddling moth larvae. These are still safe to eat. Cut into the apple or pear, any brown tunnels are “frass” the waste of the larvae and can be cut out or eaten around.

  • Grade c apples: Leave for the pigs! Heavily bruised and not good for human consumption.

• Hazards & terrain: This is not a pristine, perfectly mown U-Pick orchard. Our mature organic orchard is also wildlife habitat. We dry-farm, mow minimally and don't use herbicides, so expect tall grass, blackberry, uneven ground, squirrel holes and some beautifully imperfect fruit. Be prepared for wasps around ripe fruit.

• We provide: Ladders, crates for extra "B grade" apples you don't want & some picking supplies are available at the orchard trailer. Please lay ladders back down when finished.

• Bring from home: You can bring a tarp or sheet to lay on the ground & collect fruit. A wagon or cart can be handy for hauling fruit. Bring a picnic and relax in our willow domes while you're here! Bring your own reusable tote, or we have paper grocery bags available at the farmstand.

• Closed-toe shoes + long pants + long sleeves recommended.

Every purchase — and every “pay what you can” exchange — helps teach local youth how to grow food, make products, and build a community that shares abundance instead of scarcity. Come by, take what you need, give what you can, and be part of the circle.

The farmstand inventory was last updated on this webpage on September 21, 2026.