POVERTY LANE FARM STAND OPEN:

Labor Day Weekend through Halloween.
8 am - 6 PM, Monday-Friday,

10 am-5 PM, Saturday & Sunday

QUESTIONS? Call ahead: (603 )448-1511

Opening Saturday, September 1st, through September and October, our farm stand will offer more and more harvest goodies. On fine weekends, ride the trailer through the orchards. Our locally famous sweet cider (unpasteurized), starts through the press during the second week of the season. (Sweet cider freezes well, by the way.) Also, chrysanthemums, delicious local jams, jellies, honey, syrup, squash, pie pumpkins and of course jack 0'lantern pumpkins and Indian corn in season. Our big theme in the farm stand is TASTING -- any kind of fruit you see, you are welcome to taste. Tasting is the best answer for questions about which apples are most "tart," or "sweet" or "hard" or "crunchy."

During September, look for McIntosh, Ginger Gold, Cortland, Macoun, and Gala, plus some of the early heirlooms. Later, the number of varieties goes up and up. See variety descriptions for some idea, though the full list is huge.

   We also offer our Farnum Hill Ciders  for tasting and sale in the farmstand. These are ciders in the old, pre-Prohibition sense of the word -- with alcoholic content ranging from 6.5% to 8.5%.  If you are over 21, we welcome your interest.  Farnum Hill's fine ciders are winning favor -- and prestige -- in New York, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and of course New Hampshire; maybe with you, too.

  Pick-your-own ends sometime in October, but more and more rare heirloom apples, surprising in flavor, shape and color, come in from the field. In the farm-stand you'll find a big tasting array with some historical information on each variety. Apples may not be time machines, but it's fun to bite into fruits that were grown and enjoyed over centuries, in the Old World and the New.  Take home apples that Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and even Louis XIV enjoyed!

  Besides fruit, sweet cider, and fermented ciders, the orchard farmstand offers many seasonal treats produced locally: pumpkins by hundreds, chrysanthemums, gourds, Indian corn, honey, jams & jellies, maple syrup, and more. Very young visitors enjoy our family of friendly scarecrows, and room to roam -- there's an eight-foot fence around the whole place. It's a good place to celebrate the season.