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apples



at Butternut Farm



Fall is one of our most popular seasons with over 20 varieties spread across 6.5 acres of pick your own orchards! The apple picking season starts in mid-August and goes through early November.



Our 2021 crop looks great right now. Check back closer to harvest for updated details!

Remember that once harvest begins, the weekly ripe and ready information will be posted on the "Home page" of this site.


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Our Varieties - In Order of Ripening



Early Season (ripening Aug 15- Sept 5)

  • Jerseymac fresh eating, sauce
  • Gingergold wonderful fresh eating, good pie, crisp
  • Zestar mild sweet flavor, fresh eating with a hint of strawberry
  • Premier Honeycrisp just like the original Honey Crisp, except it ripens three weeks earlier
  • Sansa small, sweet and crunchy. Very similar to a Gala. A great back to school/lunchbox option

Mid Season (ripening Sept 5 - Sept 30)

  • MacIntosh great eating fresh, pies, crisp, sauce
  • Gala sweet, crisp eating
  • Cortland great for everything, large, very white flesh
  • Daybreak Fuji excellent flavor, fresh eating
  • Honey Crisp very juicy, sweet and crunchy, fresh eating
  • Macoun very crisp, great flavor, fresh eating
  • Acey Mac tart and a pleasant flavor for fresh eating, much like a Macintosh

Late Season (ripening Oct 1 -0ct 15)

  • Snow Sweet a unique and sweet flavor profile with a bright white flesh that is slow to brown. Great for fresh eating and slicing.
  • Red Delicious fresh eating
  • Empire beautiful color, keeps well, great fresh eating
  • Jonagold fresh eating, great for pies, crisp, stores well
  • Shizuka large and green apple, very similar to a Mutsu only with better flavor and not as tart
  • Pink Lady tart, crunchy and super eye appealing with a pink blush over a yellow back ground
  • Ida Red tart, great pie, sauce and cider apple, stores well
  • Hampshire Mac large fruit and a good eater, stores well
  • Golden Delicious wonderful sweet apples for fresh eating, holds shape well for baking, good pie and sauce
  • Mutsu (Crispin) very large green apple, great fresh eating, holds shape well for baking, stores very well
  • Northern Spy large, great fresh eating and all cooking, stores well

Very late season (ripe after Oct 20)

  • Sun Crisp tart and crisp, stores well
  • Aztec Fuji red, excellent flavor, fresh eating and storage
  • Granny Smith green, TART!, hard, good for storage


Butternut Farm LLC



195 Meaderboro RD
Farmington, NH 03835


603-335-4705


info@butternutfarm.net