Located in Red Hook, NY, Rose Hill Farm is a historic family-owned pick-your-own fruit orchard established in 1798. We grow cherries, blueberries, plums, apricots, peaches and apples on ~114 acres of picturesque farmland. We embrace ecological growing practices that prioritize plant and soil health.
Whether it’s your first time visiting Rose Hill or your hundredth, we look forward to sharing our beautiful and peaceful slice of the Hudson Valley with you!
Hours
taproom
3-8 Thursday, August 20
3-10 Friday, August 21
12-6 Saturday, August 22
12-6 Sunday, August 23
Farm stand / PYO
3-7 Friday, August 21
9-5 Saturday, August 22
9-5 Sunday, August 23
*Please refer to Events Calendar or Google listings (Farm / Cidery) for private event closures or special holiday openings which may occasionally affect these hours.
What’s Pickin’?
PEACHES
We will have pre-picked yellow fleshed and freestone globe peaches available at the farm stand.
Beginning on Friday at 3 pm, we will have limited quantities of pre-picked white fleshed peaches available.
BLUEBERRIES
Blueberry harvest is winding down, but there are still plenty of blueberries for the pick-your-own harvest! We will have 2 varieties of blueberries available for the picking! Darrow, and Elliott.
APPLES
It’s never too early for apples. Although they do not typically store for long, summer apples can have some incredible flavors and be a great break in between peaches. We will have some pre-picked apples available at the farm stand:
Centennial: Dolgo x Wealthy. Introduced in 1957 by the breeding program at the University of Minnesota. Oval shaped and approximately 2” tall, yellow skin with striped, pink to red blush. These apples are the PERFECT summertime snack! Sweet, slightly acidic, crisp, delicious, and so easy to eat. NOTE: We will have a very limited amount of Centennial apples. The people having been going WILD over these. We will harvest the last of them this afternoon, and will have them available on Friday at 3 pm.
Red Gravenstein: A redder and sweeter sport of the famous Gravenstein apple. A wonderful aroma - great for fresh eating, sauce, and makes excellent pies.
PLUMS
We will have limited quantities of pre-picked Long John plums available at the farm stand. Long John is a European plum introduced in 1993 by the breeders at the New York State Agricultural Research Station in Geneva, NY. It is a long, tear-drop shaped plum with sweet-tart firm amber colored flesh. Excellent for fresh eating, baking, jams, and drying into prunes.
FLOWERS
This is THE week to come see the sunflower fields IN FULL GLORY. Excellent harvesting potential as well as photographing your loved ones immersed in a seemingly never-ending sea of flowers!
We also planted a small field of ZINNIAS again this year, and they are really popping up and blooming now! They are in the Center Hill and Pines Blocks. If going up the main orchard road, take a right as soon as you cross over the culvert pipe before you get to the first row of apple trees. Continue walking towards the right and look left. If going from the blueberries, walk up the secondary orchard road and they will be on your left and right after you've passed a few rows of apples trees.
INFORMAL INTERESTING APPLE TASTING
On some random (but announced) Saturday mornings, we will slice some interesting apples to taste together. This Saturday morning at 9 am at the farm stand, we will be slicing into a couple of Sidrukollane Taliõun, Chenango Strawberry, and some other interesting apples (one being a red-fleshed apple and maybe a plum or two) for anyone and everyone that shows up. We’ll call it an “Informal Interesting Apple Tasting.”
There have been many monumental points in my orcharding journey. Another one happened on Sunday. Four or five years ago I grafted a tree out in the “Conservancy Block” with four varieties (Fameuse, Washington Sweet, Sidrukollane Taliõun, and Tolman Sweet)—just one limb on each side of the tree. It was an experiment of sorts and the varieties were based on some recommendations from friend and colleague Laura Sieger up in Maine. Fast forward a few years and on Sunday we harvested the first fruits off the Sidrukollane Taliõun branches. Talk about a complete MIND BLOW! It ripens earlier than I expected, but wow, is it ever on time. It is an Estonian variety that was developed in 1946 and is extremely rare in the US. I only know of one other orchard that has it. Anyways, the flavor is unlike any other apple I have tasted. Who knew an apple could have warm spice notes and cardamom in the balance? All the while being slightly tart with citrus and tropical flavors. I am OBSESSED and can’t get it off my mind. We will have to graft a few trees of this for the future.
Join us in the taproom Thursday through Sunday for locally-crafted drinks and food pop-ups. Keep an eye on our events calendar for upcoming live music, featured ferments (tastings by other NYS makers), classes, festivals, ticketed dinners, and more. See you soon!
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Address: 14 Rose Hill Farm, Red Hook, NY 12571
Conveniently accessible from I-87 and the TSP yet peacefully tucked away off the beaten track.
Directions from NYC: Take Taconic State Parkway N to exit 67 (toward Pine Plains/Red Hook). Turn left at NY-199 W. Enter Village of Red Hook, NY-199 becomes Market St. Turn right onto Route 9. Turn right at Fraleigh Lane. Make left into Rose Hill Farm.