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Fall Apple Picking in the Front Royal Area

9/26/2021

 
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Apple picking is one of those quintessential fall experiences that has many of us cheering the arrival of cooler weather and September days. Imagine sunny avenues of fruit trees, brisk fall air, mountain views, and the smell of fresh, sweet, juicy apples. If you’d like to make your mental picture a reality, start planning your Front Royal apple picking trip today! Read on for a list of Front Royal’s top apple picking spots, as well as four tips to make your apple picking experience the best it can be!

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Front Royal’s Pick Your Own Apple Orchards
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Family time and apple picking.
With rolling hills, plentiful farmland, and a temperate Virginia climate, Front Royal is the natural place to plan a memorable apple-picking adventure. Hartland Farm and Orchard, with its convenient location and high visibility from I-66, is an obvious apple picking choice for Front Royal’s locals and visitors alike. Don’t forget to stop by the shop for fall goodies such as caramel apples, apple donuts, and apple pies. 
 
Apple pickers looking for a mountain side orchard will want to check out historic Stribling Orchard in Markham. It’s a little more “off the beaten path” (a perk for many of us!), but the stunning views are worth it. You can enjoy some refreshment from the snack shack or pick up goodies to bring home from the harvest house. Grass-fed beef from the farm is also available for purchase.
 
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Apple picking is fun (and delicious) for the whole family.
Apple pickers looking for a mountain side orchard will want to check out historic Stribling Orchard in Markham. It’s a little more “off the beaten path” (a perk for many of us!), but the stunning views are worth it. You can enjoy some refreshment from the snack shack or pick up goodies to bring home from the harvest house. Grass-fed beef from the farm is also available for purchase.

Four Tips for Enjoyable Apple Picking
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​Ready to pick your own in Front Royal? Use the following tips to guarantee you’ll have a great time.
 
1. Call Ahead to Avoid Disappointment!

​We can’t emphasize this one enough. Apple season is typically late August through October, but (like everything in nature) it’s not completely predictable. Pick your own farms also have an inconsistent stream of pickers to deal with. All that’s to say that availability isn’t one hundred percent consistent. It’s a good idea to call and see what’s available to pick before making a long trip. The good thing about apple picking in Front Royal is that if one orchard’s picked out, another should have fruit ready on the tree for you!

2. Keep Both Feet On the Ground
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Climbing trees can be fun, but climbing fruit trees is dangerous – both for you and the tree! Fruit trees are there to hold fruit, and during picking season they’re at their most heavily laden. Adding the weight of a human can easily damage even a strong and healthy fruit tree. Climbing can also result in knocking down and bruising fruit, leading to unnecessary waste.
 
3. Bring a picnic
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Have a picnic in an apple orchard!
Pick your own orchards are lovely places, and you may want to linger longer than it takes to pick the apples you need. Pack a picnic or snack so you can spend longer relaxing in the fall air. Forgot your food? No problem. Most of Front Royal’s pick your own farms also have food available for purchase. 
 
4. Get Ready to Bake!
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Make and bake apple cobbler with orchard picked apples!
It’s easy to get carried away picking fruit at a pick your own farm. When you get your apples home, you may find you have a lot more on your hands than you realized! If you have too many apples to eat fresh, baking with them is a fantastic (and delicious) way to use them up before they go to waste. For any easy fall desert, try apple cobbler, while many recipes call for peeling apples, you can save time and effort by skipping this step, and you won’t notice much of a difference.  Another classic fall past-time is to make and can apple butter, so you can enjoy the tastes of fall throughout the year to come. 
 
​Whether you pick apples every fall or you’ve never tried it before, Front Royal is a great place to plan a pick your own apple orchard adventure! Just an hour from the D.C. area, Front Royal is the perfect daytrip or weekend escape for the weary city-dweller. You can support local, small-scale agriculture, and have great family fun while doing it. And when you get home, you’ll enjoy the unique satisfaction of knowing exactly where the food in your mouth came from. Don’t forget to check out Front Royal’s other fall attractions while you’re here. 
 

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