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Apple Castle

A 165-year family-owned orchard and farm market in New Wilmington, PA — Lawrence County, western Pennsylvania. Founded 1861. Multi-generation Johnston family operation. U-pick apple varieties and tart cherries; on-site farm market with farm-fresh produce, apple cider donuts, school and group tours. Open Monday-Saturday year-round.

What they do

Apple Castle is a 165-year family-owned orchard at 277 PA-18 in New Wilmington, PA — Lawrence County, western [[poconos|Pennsylvania]]. Founded 1861 — pre-dating the American Civil War. Multi-generation operation (the website self-describes as “King of Freshness Since 1861”).

Production:

  • Apples — multiple varieties for U-pick and farm-market retail
  • Tart cherries — secondary fruit crop
  • Mixed produce — hand-picked from the broader farm operation, plus farm-fresh fruits and vegetables sourced from neighboring growers

Retail / agritourism:

  • U-pick during apple and cherry seasons
  • [[farm-market|Farm market]] — Monday-Saturday 7:30 am – 5:30 pm — apple cider donuts, baked goods, farm-[[fresh-produce|fresh produce]], gift baskets
  • Online ordering with in-store pickup; shipping available
  • School and group tours
  • Event rentals

Why it’s listed

165 years of continuous family operation is exceptional — Apple Castle is among the oldest continuously operating orchards in the eastern United States. [[directory|The directory]]‘s [[century-farm]] tier exists for exactly this kind of operation: multi-generational stewardship, working agricultural land kept in production across multiple ownership and economic cycles, integrated U-pick + farm-stand + agritourism layered onto the working orchard.

Bioregional fit

New Wilmington sits in Lawrence County, western [[poconos|Pennsylvania]] — north of Pittsburgh, on the rolling Appalachian-Plateau farmland that extends into eastern Ohio. The [[pittsburgh-rivers]] bioregion in the directory loosely covers this — though a future curator could add a more specific Western PA / Beaver-Lawrence-Mercer county bioregion.

See also

Auto-generated from this entry’s typed relations: frontmatter, grouped by relation type so the editorial signal isn’t flattened.

  • Instance of: [[orchard]] · [[farm-stand]] · [[agritourism]] · [[century-farm]]
  • Contained by: [[pittsburgh-rivers]]

Sources

Related concepts: [[orchard]] · [[farm-stand]] · [[agritourism]] · [[century-farm]].

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[pittsburgh-rivers]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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