Orchards
WELCOME TO APPLE HOLLER'S AG-VENTURE
Your fruit picking ag-venture allows you to get up close and personal with nature as you explore the rolling hills and gentle slopes of the Apple Holler orchards and farm. Marvel in the majesty of 150-year-old hardwood trees on your tractor-drawn orchard and farm tour and enjoy the beautiful, picturesque flower and tree landscaping at the Apple Holler farm. Using your farm map, follow the old farm roads and orchard pathways as you search for the perfect apples, peaches, and pears to suit your tastes.
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Your fruit picking egg venture allows you to get up close and personal with nature as you explore the rolling hills and gentle slopes of the apple holler orchards and farm! Marvel in the majesty of 100 and 50-year-old hardwood trees on your tractor-drawn orchard and farm tour. And enjoy the beautiful, picturesque flower and tree landscaping at the Apple Holler Farm. Using your farm map, follow the old farm roads and orchard pathways as you search for the perfect apples, peaches, and pears to suit your tastes.
Are You Ready to Pick Fruit?
Picking Starts Here
What's Ripe for Picking
Pick-Your-Own Apples, Peaches and Pears at Apple Holler
Voted one of the “Top Ten Best Orchards” in the country by USA Today, Apple Holler is a 78-acre orchard that invites you to embrace the brilliance and beauty of the fall season. When you and your family spend a day with us, experience our special “Pick-Your-Own Apples” from August through early November.
With more than 35,000 select dwarf trees featuring over 45 varieties of apples, a day spent in our apple orchard will be a day that is not quickly forgotten. Check our picking calendar to see when your favorite apple is ready for picking.
There’s no substitute for being able to pick your own fresh fruit. As you stroll through our spectacular orchard, you will see first-hand the abundant assortment of apples we have available for you to pick from.
We’re not only about apples! In late summer, enjoy Pick-Your-Own Peaches. For additional fruit variety beginning in early fall, try our pears!
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We are exploring Racine County today on Discover Wisconsin. We’re heading to Sturtevant for some fresh air and farm cooking. Apple Holler is a little slice of country located between Milwaukee and Chicago right off of I 94. It’s the kind of place where kids can be kids and adults can too! (And the dismount!) So I’ve only ridden a horse one time in my life and I’ve never ridden a pony, so today’s the day. You want to smile at the camera, Stormy? Hey! As you might’ve guessed, there are thousands and thousands of apple trees here at Apple Holler, and during the harvest, you can hop on the train to the orchard and take your pick. Yay. We’re off on an adventure folks.
We’ve been here before. We like it because of the Hay rides. They get a chance to pick their own apples. It’s enjoyable for the kids and us at the same time. Not far at all coming from Milwaukee, and it’s worth couple minutes to get over here too, so it’s definitely fun and worth it. This is becoming a fall tradition for us.
Even if you don’t pick your own, you can still enjoy apples straight from the orchard. At Apple Hollers restaurant and Country store, which is open year round,
We use the apples in the restaurant every possible way. We make apple pancakes, apple fritters. We have apple butter barbecue sauce on our delicious ribs. Our apple pies- we’re famous for those. There’s over three and a half pounds of apples per pie, so they’re just massive. The restaurant really adds to the agricultural experience here because we’re able to feature the items that we’re growing, whether it’s pumpkins with making pumpkin pie apples and our apple cider, and people really appreciate that they can go out and pick apples and see all the different ways that they can use them.
Now, despite its name, apples aren’t the only fresh fruit you can find at Apple Holler in the summertime, you can pluck fresh juicy peaches right off the tree.
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My daughters and I wanted to come out and just see what it was like and have a peach right off the tree. We’ve never done that before. A lot of peaches fit in that little bag.
That’s really good. I like it. Tell me what we’re doing here with peaches in Wisconsin, we wanted a July crop, so I purchased probably 10 different varieties of July and early August. Peaches, fresh peaches off the tree. Tastes pretty good,
Right? Yeah. I got to have one right before this, and it was really super juicy. Lots of juice in July and August. We do everything peaches, including the peach pie and peach lemonade and all those types of things. And peach ice cream, I’m sure. Peach sundaes. So yeah, everything. Peaches.
Pick some peaches. You’re telling me what’s the name of this variety? Yeah, Colin. These are our flaming Furies. It’s the PF one variety, which just means it’s a little earlier in the year than the other Flaming Fury varieties. And these trees are only a year old, and so that is why they’re a little bit short. And also why the peaches are a little bit smaller.
Do you have a trick that when you’re looking for the perfect peach, what do you look for?
Well, what I look for is the deepest color that I can see. I had my eye on this one as we walked over to the point. Sure. Oh, look at it. Glistening!
Head over to discover wisconsin.com and find a free itinerary to help with planning your trip to Racine County. Coming up, you’ll feel right at home. At Racine’s most eclectic b and b. Trust me. Stay with us.
Pick-Your-Own Memories
Voted one of the “Top Ten Best Orchards” in the country by USA Today, Apple Holler is a 78-acre orchard that invites you to embrace the brilliance and beauty of the fall season. When you and your family spend a day with us, experience our special “Pick-Your-Own Apples” from August through early November.
Did you know that apples are not the only fruit you can pick at Apple Holler? If you love peaches, but thought you would have to travel to Georgia to pick peaches, you are in luck because we have our very own peach orchard that you can pick peaches from. Bring the Family for a “peachy” good time!
How We Grow
We believe that it is our duty and responsibility to provide your family and ours with the highest quality of healthy, wholesome produce; While also caring for our environment, wildlife and community with responsible pest management solutions. Apple Holler is a farm that uses IPM, which is a reliable method of farming that controls insects, pests and diseases, while protecting human health and the environment.
Kids Korral & Family Fun Park
There is not a shortage of activities to enjoy here in the farm. Families will enjoy the Kids Korral Play Area including; Cool Cow Maze, Music Garden, Corn Maze, Amish Built Train and Rainbow Play Structure.
Make sure to stop at the Golden Goat Bridge & visit with our Farm Animals. Learn about bees at our Bee Observation Exhibit & Tree Life Cycle Exhibit. Slide down the Giant Slide. Take advantage of our Many Photo Opportunities & Lots of Memories.
Biergarten, Hard Cider Bar
& Applewood Grill
Hungry? Thirsty? No Worries! Sip and savor several flavors of Wisconsin hard ciders and craft beers including Apple Holler’s own first press Hard Cider, all served in its all new Biergarten overlooking the famous Apple Holler apple, peach, and pear orchards.
Don’t forget to satisfy your hunger with a visit to the Applewood Grill featuring our famous BBQ Pulled Pork, Hamburgers, Brats and more!
Have Questions?
We hope that our FAQs and Guidelines will help. If you still have questions, please don’t hesitate to give us a call at 262-884-7100.