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Dame Farm and Orchards is currently open for U-pick flowers!

Varieties available are based on seasons and weather. Check out our flower page for more info, or call and we will be happy to help.

Dame‌ ‌Farm‌ ‌and‌ ‌Orchards‌ ‌,‌ ‌LLC‌ ‌-‌ ‌Good‌ ‌Conduct‌ ‌Rules‌ ‌

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‌●All‌ ‌Visitors‌ ‌MUST‌ ‌check‌ ‌in‌ ‌at‌ ‌Farm-Stand‌ ‌or‌ ‌Information‌ ‌Booth.‌ ‌

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●No‌ ‌Pets‌ ‌allowed‌ ‌on‌ ‌Farm‌ ‌or‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌Orchards.‌ ‌ ‌

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●No‌ ‌CLIMBING‌ ‌any‌ ‌Trees,‌ ‌Benches,‌ ‌or‌ ‌tables.‌***** ‌

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●No‌ ‌Throwing‌ ‌Apples,‌ ‌Rocks,‌ ‌Corn,‌ ‌or‌ ‌any‌ ‌other‌ ‌object‌ ‌******

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●No‌ ‌Recreational/Sporting‌ ‌Equipment‌ ‌Allowed‌.‌ ‌

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●No‌ ‌Running‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌Orchard‌ ‌or‌ ‌on‌ ‌Farm.‌ ‌

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●No‌ ‌Pulling,‌ ‌or‌ ‌Sitting‌ ‌on‌ ‌Tree‌ ‌Limbs.‌ ‌ ‌

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●Visitors‌ ‌are‌ ‌not‌ ‌allowed‌ ‌near‌ ‌any‌ ‌Farm‌ ‌Ponds.‌ ‌

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●Customers‌ ‌MUST‌ ‌PAY‌ ‌for‌ ‌ALL‌ ‌product‌ ‌they‌ ‌have‌ ‌picked!‌ ‌ ‌

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●Back‌ ‌–Packs,‌ ‌Large‌ ‌Shopping‌ ‌Bags‌ ‌and‌ ‌other‌ ‌containers‌ ‌are‌ ‌not‌ ‌

permitted‌ ‌in‌ ‌the‌ ‌Orchard.‌ ‌ ‌

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●No‌ ‌Trespassing‌ ‌in‌ ‌Any‌ ‌Private‌ ‌Out‌ ‌Buildings,‌ ‌Work‌ ‌Shops,‌ ‌or‌ ‌Private‌ ‌

Family‌ ‌Areas!‌ ‌

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❖All‌ ‌of‌ ‌the‌ ‌Above‌ ‌Rules‌ ‌of‌ ‌Conduct‌ ‌are‌ ‌for‌ ‌the‌ ‌SAFETY‌ ‌and‌ ‌

Protection‌ ‌of‌ ‌ALL‌ ‌our‌ ‌Customers‌ ‌and‌ ‌Employees.‌ ‌These‌ ‌

rules‌ ‌have‌ ‌come‌ ‌forth‌ ‌from‌ ‌years‌ ‌of‌ ‌providing‌ ‌the‌ ‌safest‌ ‌

environment‌ ‌on‌ ‌our‌ ‌Family‌ ‌Farm‌ ‌and‌ ‌Orchard‌ ‌Business‌ ‌as‌ ‌

possible.‌ ‌ ‌

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‌❖We‌ ‌are‌ ‌very‌ ‌grateful‌ ‌that‌ ‌You,‌ ‌and‌ ‌Your‌ ‌Family‌ ‌have‌ ‌visited‌ ‌

our‌ ‌Family’s‌ ‌Farm,‌ ‌Orchard‌ ‌and‌ ‌Home‌ ‌this‌ ‌season.‌ ‌ ‌

❖The‌ ‌Dame‌ ‌Family‌ ‌Thanks‌ ‌You‌ ‌For‌ ‌Your‌ ‌Patronage!‌ ‌ ‌

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The 2024 blueberry season is Closed!

Thank you for visiting us this season.

The 2024 Apple Picking Season is closed.

How things work at our farm

Apple picking is a separate activity on the farm.

In order to enter the orchard a customer or group of customers must first purchase a picking bag. There is a minimum purchase required for all customer groups based on the size of the group. All visitors over 10 yrs of age and older will be considered as a paying customer.

We offer our valued customers four options when it comes to prepaid apple picking bags. These bags are priced to accommodate the average group size and demands. However, as long as you meet the minimum payment required for your group any combination of bags can be purchased.

This is not a limit to how many apples you can pick, but is the lowest amount you can pick and still enter the orchard. If you or your group would like to purchase more apples than the minimum than by all means just buy a larger bag.

If you over pick the original bag you purchased you will be required to pay for the extra picked apples by purchasing another bag that holds the apples you pick!

Here is an image with the basic information.

So what does this mean?

Here is a chart that explains it best!

Apple Picking Information Chart

Number of Paying Minimum Payment Required

People in Your Group for this size group.

1-2 $15.00

1-5 $30.00

1-8 $50.00

Bag Sizes Bag Prices

1/2 peck $15.00

1 peck $30.00

1/2 Bushel $50.00

Examples of Bag Combinations That meet Price Requirements Based on Group size.

1 customer : Any bag

2 customers: Any combination of bags that meets or exceeds the $15 min.

Example: (1) 1/2 peck bag, or larger.

3 to 4 customers: Any combination of bags that meet or exceeds the $30 min.

Example: (2) 1/2 peck bags, or a 1 peck bag or larger etc.

5 to 8 customers: Any combination of bags that meet or exceeds the $50 min.

Example: (1) 1/2 bushel bag, or (2) 1 peck bags, or (3) 1/2 peck bags etc.

For groups larger than 8 we start all over again.

What apples are we starting with??

Early September has some of the Sweetest Apples of the entire season.

We will start of picking:

Jonagold

Gala

McIntosh

and Red Cortland

* See descriptions below for information on each apple*

The apples you will find and pick at Dame Farm and Orchards LLC

The McIntosh

John McIntosh; son of a Scottish immigrant, and born in 1777 discovered the original McIntosh sapling on his Dundela farm in Upper Canada in 1811. He and his wife bred it, and the family started grafting the tree and selling the fruit in 1835. In 1870, it entered commercial production, and became common in northeastern North America after 1900. While still important in production, the fruit's popularity fell in the early 21st century in the face of competition from varieties such as the Gala. According to the US Apple Association website it is one of the fifteen most popular apple cultivars in the United States.

The Gala

The first Gala apple tree was one of many seedlings resulting from a cross between a Golden Delicious and a Kidd's Orange Red planted in New Zealand in the 1930s by orchardist J.H. Kidd. Donald W. McKenzie, an employee of Stark Bros Nursery, obtained a US plant patent for the cultivar on October 15, 1974. Now the Gala apple is the second most popular apple in the United States.

The Cortland

The Cortland was birthed in 1898 when Professor S.A. Beach of Cornell University crossed a McIntosh and a Ben Davis. It grew in popularity as a good keeping apple and great pie, or cooking apple. It is slightly sweeter than its’ parent; the McIntosh. Named after Cortland County, New York, it ranks 12th in popularity nation wide.

The Red Delicious

The 'Red Delicious' originated at an orchard in 1880 as "a round, blushed yellow fruit of surpassing sweetness".[2] Stark Nurseries held a competition in 1892[3] to find an apple to replace the 'Ben Davis' apple. The winner was a red and yellow striped apple sent by Jesse Hiatt, a farmer in Peru, Iowa, who called it "Hawkeye". Stark Nurseries bought the rights from Hiatt, renamed the variety "Stark Delicious", and began propagating it. Another apple tree, later named the 'Golden Delicious', was also marketed by Stark Nurseries after it was purchased from a farmer in Clay County, West Virginia,[4] in 1914; the 'Delicious' became the 'Red Delicious'.

The Red Delicious has under gone many changes, and the one on this farm is a great, great grandchild of the original. The official name is Starkrimson Red Delicious. This is a good, late season apple sweet and juicey.

The Jonagold

This is yet another great apple developed out of the New York apple program at Cornell University. Developers crossed a Jonathan with a Golden Delicious, to get this juicy, tasty, aromatic treat.

Jonagold is slightly unique in that it takes two other apple varieties to pollinate it, and you can find the original green/yellow fruit with a red blush, and a red apple on the same tree. The red apple is called a ‘sport’ of the original.

This is not a good storage apple, so pick them fresh and eat them soon and enjoy.

The Empire

The Empire apple is the underrated child of two giants in the apple world; the McIntosh and Red Delicious. Developed by Lester C. Anderson in 1945, 21 years of development took place before the Empire apple was released to the public in 1966. The wait was worth it.

Named after its’ home state of New York, this dark red beauty has snow white flesh, with a tart, crisp, taste. This apple is great for eating, baking, sauce, pies, lunches, everything. It’s no wondering why this apple made the Top 15 apples in America list.

The Idared

Developed by the University of Idaho in 1942 by crossing a Jonathan and a Wagener. Both apples were known for there baking and keeping qualities. The Idared is a favorite for baked apples. It can keep up to 8 months in a good cold storage. If you like to bake pies, and cakes, then try this one.

The Macoun

The Macoun apple, discovered in1923 at the Geneva Research Station in NY, and named after fruit grower and researcher W.T. Macoun; is a relative new comer in the apple world.

Pronounced ‘ma-cow-an’ NOT ‘ma-coon’.

Its’ parents are McIntosh and Jersey Black. This is a great fresh eating apple, sauce, and salad apple.

The Fuji

Yet another daughter of the Red Delicious, this time being crossed with an old Virginia Ralls Genet; an apple grown by Jefferson at his home Monticello. Growers developed the apple in Fujisaki, Aomori, Japan, in the late 1930’s, making it public in the 1960’s. This long keeping apple has more % sugar than many other varieties, making it sweeter than most. You have to wait for it however, because it is a late apple ripening mid October.

Pick Your Pumpkin

• Pumpkins :

Any Large Orange carving pumpkin $14. ea
Any Medium pumpkin $10 ea
Any sugar sized pumpkin $3.75 ea
Any Extra Large Carver $24ea

• We have a great selection of Carvers as well as Sugar Pumpkins for those who like to cook.

• We also have a great selection of Winter Squash and Gourds. Combine them all in one package for your

Bushel Basket Deal.

• We also have Hardy Mums to color up your yard, and add to your Fall Decorations.