Welcome to our Apple Picking Farm near New
Paltz, New York!
Welcome to our apple farm, located just 5 miles from New
Paltz, New York! The patchwork quilt history of Hurd's hundred year
old apple farm is an example of good old Yankee ingenuity. In the early
1900s, Graham Hurd was a self sufficient Hudson Valley farmer. When
son Melford Hurd joined him on the farm they grew small fruits: strawberries,
raspberries, currents, and grapes, some of which were harvested and
shipped along the Hudson River to New York City customers. In the mid
1900s, the family decided they enjoyed growing deciduous fruit trees
such as cherries, peaches, pears, plums, and apples, thus replacing
the small fruit. Apples and pears reigned king for the next seventy
years!