A family farm in Leicester, open to you
Four generations on the same forty acres. Come pick your own, take a tour of the farm, or fill a box at the stand with what we cut that morning.
Four generations on the same forty acres. Come pick your own, take a tour of the farm, or fill a box at the stand with what we cut that morning.
We pick in the morning and the stand opens at nine. What is listed here is what is in the baskets today.
Three ways to spend a morning here, and all of them are open to families.
Apples through October, pumpkins and gourds until the first hard frost. Bags and wagons are at the gate.
$12 a bag, kids under 5 free
An hour on the wagon with one of us, through the orchard and the fields, finishing at the barn with cider.
$9 a head, by appointment
Our own honey, apple butter and preserves, plus bread and cheese from two neighbours down the road.
Open with the stand
We are nine miles northwest of Asheville, on the left after the second bridge. Parking is in the top field.
1140 Mill Hollow Road, Leicester, NC 28748
A box of whatever is best that week, picked Thursday morning and ready for you by noon. No subscription, no card on file. Tell us the weeks you want and we will have it waiting.
Feeds one or two people for a week.
$28
Feeds four, with eggs and a dozen apples.
$44
We started the stand with one table at the end of the driveway. Now half the folks who come out found us on their phone the night before. Dale and Marianne Whitfield, Mill Hollow Farm
We answer in the evening once the work is done.