Smallwood’s Harvest

My family has had such an amazing time at this valley treat. With shopping and fresh market groceries for me, rides, games and a petting zoo for the kids, this is well worth the stop.

I really loved this place… and not for the amusement park aspect either. I loved the amount and quality of the produce and the local selections inside. There were tubs and tubs of different varieties of apples… some I had never heard of!!! Inside there are local jams and honey, along with various treats and knick knacks. Friendly staff and large area for parking.

Very nice place to stop and check out the store. We do each year we visit the area. They have good produce and a fairly large store (hard to tell from outside) but inside it’s big. They have a lot of spices, sauces, dressings, and a lot more. The layout is spacious so you don’t feel crammed in while shopping.

Nice place to visit near Leavenworth. Animals are eager to engage to get food which is purchased onsite. Place has character too. Only downside is that it is located at a turn near a busy highway, with no guardrail protecting the zoo and play area. Kind of freaky I think and they should add a guardrail.

I have stopped here a few times while traveling Highway 2. Always a good stop with lots of home grown items to look at. That kettle corn is the BEST I’ve ever tasted (and I’ve had lots of different kettle corn over the years). Light & fluffy with that great combination of salty/​sweet. The store is a huge store full of interesting gifts and foods. Nice local fruit too. The petting zoo is fun. I have never brought kids here (they’re grown) so I’ve never seen the kid activities. That cow train is adorable though! Smallwood’s Harvest is a regular must-​stop.

I stop at this place every time I travel to eastern Washington. Thru have done very unique items and specialty ingredients for great quick soups. Nice break stop to let the kiddos run and stretch their legs. They have a fun cow train for kids and a petting zoo. Get out, stretch your legs, look around, and find something unique to take home :)

This is a cool place! We went to the Easter event, and it was a bit chaotic and unorganized. But the kids loved the petting zoo. The llamas were great fun. My family grew up raising llamas, so they have a special place in our heart! We loved how curious and friendly they were. They had a naughty goat next to them though, who climbed the fence and hit me in the shoulders with his hooves. He also head butted my nephew. Haha. The egg hunt was a mad house. My youngest son really wanted to do it, but the second the kids all started running, he shut down. I was so appreciative to find that they had a special needs egg area. He was able to go in, pick 10 eggs at ha own pace, in an uncrowned and calm environment. I think they are amazing for having that available.
We ate hot dogs, the kids jumped on the bouncy house, and we even went on a hay ride to the top of the orchard. It was beautiful up there! We are excited to come back in October for their pumpkin farm!

This is an update to my previous review because since that time we now have a child and have gone to Smallwood several times as a family and with our daughter’s pre-​school.
As other reviewers have noted, this is a convenient place to kill some time. Sadly, that convenience now comes at a higher price. Rather than one price to do everything, you have to pay for most options (cow ride, bouncy house, maze, petting zoo, etc.) Over the past year, they have increased their prices to the point that, if you are spending an afternoon here, the $ 2 and $ 3 nickel and dimeing you for everything really begins to add up. In addition, all family members are charged for every offering — no more accompanying your small child for free on the cow ride, for example. So that is disappointing.
In addition, again as noted by other reviewers, the «made for Smallwood» items are not local and are of mediocre quality. Better to go to Pybus Market (esp on Sat) for that. The fruit and vegetables are typically ok but anything from the ice cream area is hit or miss. I have had the worst strawberry ice cream (certainly not a complex offering) of my life here, with the consistency of ancient ice-​infused permafrost, generously layered with that kind of «skin» ice cream gets when it has been in the freezer way past its expiration date.
Based on our experiences, Smallwood is best enjoyed when you come with a group, bring picnic lunches, and access the petting zoo along with the free options and the fun activities you do with your group. More enjoyable in the late spring, when the temps are reasonable and they finally have enough staff for everything, than in the heat of middle August.
Oh, and you may want to bring your own desserts.

Great stop with or without kids. Petting zoo, little train for the kids, lots of things to see and do. What I liked best was the cleanliness and nice staff. The store was cute but i wish they’d stock it with locally made food items and without so many preservatives, etc. The ingredients list us putting things back on to the shelf. We did spend $ 35.68 on fresh fruit (cherries and a big box of mixed items) and we ate those for days. THe fruit was fresh and delicious.

With or without kids, if you like spending time with pushy, begging, adorable animals, this is a fun little stop-​off. The people at this business are super friendly.
It was odd– we were driving around and needed to go into Wenatchee for some items we forgot back at home, and as we drove past the many properties that had llamas, I told Claire «I wanna go play with llamas. Wonder what the property owners would say if I went to their door and told them that?»
About five minutes later we pass a sign that offers to allow you to feed and pet… LLAMAS! Among other animals. We were tired of being in the car and we’re overgrown children, so we turned in and went to spend some time with goats, pigs, freaking precious mini cows, a bratty mini horse who loves to agitate a very sensitive mini donkey, said agitated mini donkey, poultry of all types, bunnies, and a smiley little pig with her sparkling new baby piglet.
We easily killed an hour here. I got to play with my llamas. Claire got to spoil her favorites– the chickens.

The petting zoo was super cute. We went in April so there was nothing else going on but I think $ 2 to get into the zoo was good enough. The items in the store were rubbish, full of preservatives and high fructose corn syrup, among other things that humans shouldn’t consume, but whatever tickles your fancy.

Another fun trip with the little tyke. He loved feeding the animals and petting them. Nice area for a picnic or to let him play. They have more to offer in the summer like tractor rides but it can be a lot of fun. Not all day fun more like 2 – 3 hours kinda fun.

What an awesome and unexpected surprise it was to find this place! I’ve been to Leavenworth so many times I lost count, and had never heard of this place; a «hidden jewel» for cliché’s sake.
The selection of jams, fruit spreads, honeys, sauces, pickled yummies, candy, etc., is enough to keep you busy for ½ a day.
The kids had a blast as we made our way though the water balloons-​war tower, the petting/​feeding zoo, the tractor-​cows ride, the tricycle racing arena, the chicken coup aka. Egg Factory, the ice cream shop, and the park. I highly recommend this place as an alternative to the typical Leavenworth experience. Everyone in our group, adults and kiddos alike had tons of fun.

We stopped here for a break in the drive back home to Everett. What a nice variety of things — definitely something for everybody. Nice looking produce and they actually had sour pie cherries — something very very hard to find at other fruit stands! I came home with 20 pounds and happy! The big draw is the entertainment center for kids — we will be sure to let my nephew and his 2 daughters know — maybe we will take them here for a road trip!

OMG. What a find! Just stumbled upon this stand/​store as we were departing Leavenworth for home. It is freaking amazing!
You’d think my kids, 12 & 15 yr old girls who are jaded in most «kiddie» things, you’d think they’d not be so interested in the «cow ride» (individual cow carts connected together and driven around fields by a guy driving a John Deere tractor). You’d think they’d not be interested in tire swings and photo placards with holes to put your face through. You’d think they’d not be interested in duck ponds and alpacas and petting zoos. You’d be wrong! They were as excited as kids in a candy store. Literally and figuratively! This brings me to the store…
Wow. This place is huge. And it has the largest selection of condiments, mixes and jams and jellies of any place I’ve ever been. Salad dressings, barbeque rubs and sauces, mustards, oils, pickled everything, pastas, I could go on and on. Seriously, I could. Because there are SO many gourmet foods here, it was a little overwhelming for me.
There are chocolates and fudges and gourmet pretzels. Scone and muffin and bread mixes. Everything looks so beautiful, too, displayed clearly and very appetizingly.
When you enter the store, there is an area with Anne Taintor merchandise (sooo funny) and women’s jewelry, and then some body lotions and scrubs and lip glosses.
Connected to the store to the north is a small but awesome kitchen goods section, with the coolest Bodum salt and pepper shakers and all sorts of cooking and baking tools. I got my mom a fabulous kitchen towel (great place for gifts!), and I saw lots of cooking items I personally would love but haven’t the room for (or the need, quite frankly. But I love this stuff!). Sleek kitchen timers, silicone measuring spoons, butter crocks, etc.
If we didn’t have to hit the road, we could easily have spent many hours here. As is, we were here an hour, and it passed in a flash. Give yourself time to explore!

What a great treasure! We found this place last weekend on the way home and will return many times as the kids grow up. They have a great country store, mostly with local products although some are packaged from very far away, a petting zoo, and they have a nice outdoor space for picnic lunches or one of the many festivals.
We purchased jams and jellies, candy, dried fruit, honey, chocolate raisins, and a few mixes for the bread machine. We were happy with all of the foods we picked up. They have a geat coffee hut outside and then we visited the animals, which helped tire out the kids before the drive home.

Ive been going here since I was a kid and recently took my hubby who cant get enough of the honey and cider I love all the bbq rubs and sauces and spend way too much here!

Hubby and I were in Wenatchee visiting his family and we decided to go to Leavenworth for a day. On the way back to Wenatchee we decided to stop at Smallwood’s and check it out. What a fun stop! You could shop all the jams, jellies, honey, and assorted other snacks all day long — they have lots of samples too. They had an irish crème honey that was delish and really yummy carmel corn. Altough we didn’t walk away with either. Lots of maple syrups and scone/​pancakes mixes looked good. We picked up some cherries, pears, and some aplets and cotles at my husband’s request. We don’t have kids, but it looks like a great place to go if you do. They had a large petting-​zoo type area and a water balloon-​shooting game.
Worth a stop and looksie if you happen to drive past!

This is a great source for pickles that aren’t full of preservatives and high fructose corn syrup. We also usually grab some fresh fruit while we are there.
One really great perk is the play area for kids. We came with a 4 year old and a 2 year old and they had a great time. They have swings and a few other play areas but what I liked the most was they big tricycle track. It’s a paved circle with a giant sandpit in the middle. They have a bunch of tricycles of all different sizes and sand toys.

This place was more fun the first time we came– they carry a TON of jams, jellies, sauces, snacks, honeys– all kinds of stuff, and they had samples of everything out, which was cool.
We visited this past weekend before lunch, so maybe we were too early for the samples. It’s still fun to check out all that they carry.
My husband pointed something out to me that made it a lot less cool though– and that’s that the products they carry aren’t really made there. It’s all «made FOR Smallwood’s Harvest», and some of the products don’t even list WHERE they are actually made. So it was a lot cooler when I thought it was all local stuff, but nope, it isn’t. It’s just a tourist trap. But an interesting one, if you like that kind of stuff.