Green Mountain Orchards

Unbelievable orchard with friendly staff. Lots if seasonal fun for all with horse buggy rides, nice waking paths, and amazing apples to pick!
We like the cheese selections and baked items especially the CIDER donuts!
Wow!
They offer more varieties of apples to pick than most in the area, but you gotta get there early! The orchard is pretty busy during season.
The views from the orchard are amazing. We drive up every year!

Evie and Theo review Green Mountain Orchards on their YouTube Channel Easily Impressed. Check it out.

As if I needed any more proof that I am a city boy at heart, this orchard provided it. In the time it took my lady to pick a pound of blueberries, I was only able to pick about a third of her haul. A third might be generous, in fact, since the employees of the orchard called my .70 cents of blueberries «adorable» as they rung them up.
Still, my embarrassment at not coming close to the $ 2.25 they charged a pound on their second day of the blueberry season aside, I had a good time here.
This orchard is definitely not the kind that I remember from my childhood in Michigan, but that’s a good thing. All of the patches are accessible via a short drive (or walk if you’re not lazy) so there’s no hay ride necessary — a great thing for us allergy sufferers. And the patches are nice rows, with the mature sets marked with ribbons, with a lot of berries for everyone. Though there seem to be a lot of «professionals» who were able to fill huge milk jugs full of delicious berries.
My only objection to this place is actually the farm store for those who don’t want to pick their own fruits. It’s rather small with just a cooler and a table. It is cool that they have a lot of old farm equipment to view though. Still, I would have loved some cider and donuts (even if it is the off season for apples) and there were none. But they did have awesome looking blueberry muffins that I maybe should have bought.
Because, goodness knows, I didn’t pick enough blueberries on my own to make one.

Found this place while I was lost and looking for fall foliage. Peaches, asian pears, raspberries, and of course, apples, further than the eye can see. The staff is friendly, and wagon rides are available for the kids.

Really cute orchard and friendly staff. We paid $ 17 for a HUGE bag of delicious apples… We got some yummy apple cider donuts too — the bakery smelled amazing!

this place is so sweet. the Darrows are awesome people. and you can just hang out at the orchard and drink tea, read the paper or play checkers. they have the best blueberry’s around. if i were traveling through putney i would stop here for sure.

This orchard is awesome! Their apples can’t be beat. They offer U-​Pick and Ready Pick. The main varieties that were available when we were there in October were Macintosh, Empire, and Cortland. I did not care for their cider mill donuts (they tasted like burnt oil to me) but my husband loved them.

Lots of goodies to eat. Decent prices. Smell of baked goods throughout the store.

I love pick your own places and this is my favorite. It is huge, beautiful and never crowded. You can walk for a long time and never bump into anyone. The apple varieties are abundant and fun. I end up picking more apples then I need, but it is fun to make apple treatS and freeze them or give them away.

Green Mountain Orchards is a lovely, lovely pick-​your-​own orchard. Apple picking at this gorgeous farm was peaceful and renewing — the epitome of New England fall. We hardly ran into other visitors amongst the vast rows of apple trees, brimming with apples, even on a weekend afternoon. Green Mountain is refreshingly free from admission fees, hay rides, crowds of screaming children, general farm carnival madness that I’ve found instantly headache-​inducing at other orchards. The day I went, there were five varieties ready for picking — gala, macoun, macintosh, honeycrisp, and courtland. The staff was incredibly helpful in pointing us to the different varieties of apples, yet they were never overbearing, and I never felt like I was being watched. I didn’t even feel like I had to hide the just-​picked apple I munched on while wandering around.
In addition to apples, their PYO crops include berries, peaches, pears, and pumpkins. They also have unpasterized apple cider, cider donuts, and other goodies in their farmstand — yum! I reallllly want to come back and use their hand-​press to make my own cider, which we were told they allow people to do it if you ask (but they don’t actively advertise it).
My only gripe is that they aren’t an organic farm, but they clearly explain their Integrated Pest Management practices, which minimize their use of pesticides. Overall, a definite kitsch-​free pick-​your-​own gem!