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Simmons Farm

A fruit, vegetable, and flower farm in the south hills of Pittsburgh — McMurray, Washington County, PA. Two retail locations: the working farm at 170 Simmons Road and the Rt. 19 market at 2861 Washington Road. U-pick apples, peaches, strawberries, flowers, and pumpkins; on-site greenhouse production; hayrides, petting zoo, birthday parties, summer camps, and field trips. Seasonal arc Easter through Christmas.

What they do

Simmons Farm is a fruit, vegetable, and [[flower-farm|flower farm]] in the south hills of Pittsburgh — McMurray, Washington County, PA. Two retail locations:

  • The Farm — 170 Simmons Road (working orchard and U-pick fields)
  • Rt. 19 Market — 2861 Washington Road ([[roadside-market|roadside market]])

Production and offerings:

  • U-pick — apples, peaches, strawberries, flowers, pumpkins
  • Greenhouse — flowers and starts
  • Christmas trees — December season
  • Visitor programs — hayrides, petting zoo, birthday parties, summer camps, field trips

Seasonal arc: Easter (flowers + Easter Egg Hunt) → summer ([[fresh-produce|fresh produce]]) → October (fall + pumpkins) → December (Christmas trees).

Why it’s listed

Simmons is a textbook Pittsburgh-area [[farm|working farm]] + agritourism complex: orchard + vegetable + flowers + greenhouse + Christmas trees + visitor programming, two retail locations, metro-accessible siting that makes the operation economically sustainable inside [[san-francisco|the city]]‘s commuter shed.

Bioregional fit

McMurray sits in Washington County, the south-hills suburbs of Pittsburgh — the southern arm of the [[pittsburgh-rivers]] 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: [[vegetable-farm]] · [[farm-stand]] · [[agritourism]]
  • Contained by: [[pittsburgh-rivers]]
  • Also grows: [[orchard]] · [[berry-farm]] · [[flower-farm]]

Sources

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

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

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