Connecticut Missing From Best of New England Apple Orchards List

By Jaimie Cura (Patch Staff)

This isn’t the first Connecticut’s been left off a list recently. Boston Magazine writer Christopher Hughes wrote an article on 50 New England breweries to visit and left out our beloved state!

He later wrote a whole separate article on the Connecticut beer scene, after receiving countless tweets from proud Constitution State beer drinkers. So we can’t be too mad at him for temporarily forgetting about us!

Yankee Magazine’s Amy Traverso, author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, shared her picks for best apple orchards in New England and gave some love to Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Vermont, but not to Connecticut.

So readers, what Connecticut apple orchards deserve to be on this list? Whaddaya think of them apples’? Let us know in the comments below!

[Editor’s note — even though it’s not New England, here’s a list of Westchester County apple farms. Any of these your favorite?]

Apple Growers in Fairfield, New Haven and Litchfield Counties

(From the Connecticut Department of Agriculture website)

KEY: PYO - Pick Your Own, R - Retail, W - Wholesale, C - Cider, S - Seasonal, Y - Year Round

FAIRFIELD COUNTY

Beardsley’s Cider Mill & Orchard, LLC PYO C R S
278 Leavenworth Road (Rte. 110)
Shelton, CT 06484
203-926-1098
no1cidermill@yahoo.com

Blue Jay Orchards PYO C R S W
125 Plumtrees Road
Bethel, CT 06801
203-748-0119

Silverman’s Farm PYO C R Y
451 Sport Hill Road
Easton, CT 06612
203-261-3306

NEW HAVEN COUNTY

Bishop’s Orchards PYO C R Y W
1355 Boston Post Road, US Rte. 1, I-95 Exit 57
Guilford, CT 06437
203-458-PICK (7425)
farminfo@bishopsorchards.com

Bishop’s Orchards PYO C R S
1920 Middletown Avenue
Northford, CT 06472
203-458-PICK (7425)
pyoinfo@bishopsorchards.com

Blue Hills Orchard, Inc. C R S W
141 Blue Hills Road
Wallingford, CT 06492
203-269-3189
eric@bluehillsorchard.com

Drazen Orchards PYO C R S W
251 Wallingford Road
Cheshire, CT 06410
203-272-7985
gordraz@sbcglobal.net

Hickory Hill Orchards PYO C R S W
363 South Meriden Road
Cheshire, CT 06410
203-272-0181

High Hill Orchard Company PYO C R S W
170 Fleming Road
Meriden, CT 06450
203-294-0276

Hindinger Farm R S W
835 Dunbar Hill Road
Hamden, CT 06514
203-288-0700
hindinger@att.net

Norton Bros. Fruit Farm, LLC PYO C R S W
466 Academy Road
Cheshire, CT 06410
203-272-8418

Rose Orchards PYO C R S
33 Branford Road
North Branford, CT 06471
203-488-7996

LITCHFIELD COUNTY

Averill Farm PYO C R S
250 Calhoun Street
Washington Depot, CT 06794
860-868-2777
averillfarm@sbcglobal.net

Burdick Road Orchard C R S
250 Town Hill Road, Route 219
New Hartford, CT 06057
860-738-2207
mpostls@sbcglobal.net

Eastern Farm of Kent
22 Segar Mountain Road
Kent, CT 06757
860-927-3282
deltoxi@yahoo.com

Ellsworth Hill Orchard and Berry Farm LLC PYO C R S
461 Cornwall Bridge Road (Rte. 4)
Sharon, CT 06069
860-364-0025
ellsworthfarm@comcast.net

Fairview Farm R S W
70 Delay Road
Harwinton, CT 06791
860-485-1753
delhest@aol.com

Gustafson Brothers C R S
936 Linkfield Road
Watertown, CT 06795
860-274-8214

Hallock Orchard W
214 Calhoun Street
Washington Depot, CT 06794-1119
860-868-9184

Hayward Farm C R S
238 Hayward Road
New Hartford, CT 06057
860-489-9502
haywardfarm@msn.com

Maple Bank Farm LLC C R S
57 Church Street
Roxbury, CT 06783
860-354-7038
bronsonch@aol.com

March Farm PYO C R W
160 Munger Lane
Bethlehem, CT 06751
203-266-7721
marchfarms@marchfarms.com

Starberry Farm PYO R Y W
47 & 81 Kielwasser Road
Washington Depot, CT 06794
860-868-2863
starberry@snet.net

Tonn’s Orchard PYO R S
418 Milford Street
Burlington, CT 06013
860-675-3707

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