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Yates Family Orchard

A family-owned apple orchard on Monkton Ridge in Hinesburg, Vermont, with views across the Champlain Valley to the Adirondacks. Grows 28 apple varieties (McIntosh, Honey Crisp, Cortland, Northern Spy, Liberty, Empire, Honey Gold, Golden Russet, Haralson, and more) plus pears, plums, and peaches. Open early September through late October for U-pick. Operates an on-site Orchard Stand selling Vermont specialty products (cheese, raw honey, maple syrup, hard ciders), orchard-pressed cider, hot cider donuts, pies, and Kingdom Creamery creemees — including the signature 'Dreamee' (hot cider donut topped with maple creemee).

What they do

Yates Family Orchard is a family-owned working orchard on Monkton Ridge in Hinesburg, Vermont — open early September through late October, every day 9:30 am to 5:30 pm. [[the-orchard|The orchard]] grows:

  • 28 apple varieties — McIntosh, Honey Crisp, Cortland, Northern Spy, Liberty, Empire, Honey Gold, Golden Russet, Haralson, and more
  • Pears, plums, peaches

U-pick is the headline retail format during the seven-week season. The on-site Orchard Stand carries:

  • Vermont specialty products — local cheese, raw honey, maple syrup, hard ciders
  • Orchard-pressed cider made on-site
  • Made-to-order hot cider donuts
  • Pies
  • Kingdom Creamery creemees and the signature “Dreamee” (a hot cider donut topped with maple creemee)
  • Vermont artisan craftwork

Why it’s listed

[[the-orchard|The orchard]] is a textbook small-Vermont-fruit operation: family-owned, multi-variety apple production, integrated U-pick + farm-stand retail, ridge-top siting with the iconic [[champlain-valley|Champlain Valley]] views that have made the region a destination. The directory tracks operations like this because they hold the agricultural-tourism layer of New England’s small-farm economy together — the orchard is the substrate, the cider donut is the lever that pulls a metro audience out into farm country.

Bioregional fit

Hinesburg is in Chittenden County, the population center of Vermont’s [[champlain-valley]] — the glacial-lake basin between the Adirondacks and the Green Mountains. The orchard’s ridge-top siting is a [[champlain-valley|Champlain Valley]] signature: cold-air drainage off the lake gives the upper slopes a longer growing season than the bottomland.

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]]
  • Contained by: [[champlain-valley]]

Sources

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

A listing in the 0mn1.one [[directory]]. Filed under [[champlain-valley]] in [[directory|the directory]].

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