Valley Road Orchard - Patterson's Apple Cider

Valley Road Orchard - Patterson's Apple Cider Chris Patterson grows and produces the finest fresh antique and heirloom apples and apple cider in Lancaster, PA.

Yesterday was orchard clean up day. Three truck loads of pruned branched and limbs cleaned up and taken to composting pa...
03/29/2026

Yesterday was orchard clean up day. Three truck loads of pruned branched and limbs cleaned up and taken to composting park. Nice load of apple wood for smoking. Orchard is now ready to go.

Today Back Yard Fruit Growers held its annual Grafting Workshop at the Mt. Wilson Church of the Brethren near Lebanon. P...
03/22/2026

Today Back Yard Fruit Growers held its annual Grafting Workshop at the Mt. Wilson Church of the Brethren near Lebanon. PA. More than 200 cultivars of apples, 50 varieties of pears, pawpaws, plums. and other fruit varieties were available to BYFG members and the public. Apple pear, and plum rootstocks were available for purchase at a nominal cost. Veteran instructors demonstrated and explained the art of bench grafting a scion of a desired variety onto a root stock to create a custom fruit tree. This is one of the largest events of its type in the Mid-Atlantic area if not the Eastern U.S. Apple varieties I picked up to graft include Chesapeake, Victoria Limbertwig, and Monty's Surprise
I will follow up with grafting pictures in a couple weeks.

BYFG Winter Workshops are this Saturday. The workshops start at 10 am doors open at 9:30 am. 6 workshops, 3 workshops in...
02/17/2026

BYFG Winter Workshops are this Saturday. The workshops start at 10 am doors open at 9:30 am. 6 workshops, 3 workshops in the morning and 3 workshops in the afternoon.

Last batch of cider pressed Friday. It's now at Harvest Lane Farm. Varieties in this batch include Melrose, Blake, Gold...
09/28/2025

Last batch of cider pressed Friday. It's now at Harvest Lane Farm. Varieties in this batch include Melrose, Blake, Goldrush, Hall, Jonagold, Grimes Golden, Red Limbertwig, Blossom Hill Unknown, some early Suncrisp, Best O' Reds, and Pinova. Thank you to everyone who bought some!

Another batch of apples picked and pressed into cider at Bauman Family Fruit Butters & Cider. Varieties in batch includ...
09/17/2025

Another batch of apples picked and pressed into cider at Bauman Family Fruit Butters & Cider. Varieties in batch include Cortland, McIntosh, Beauties of Wellington, Royal Empire, Galarina, Jupiter, Baker's Delight, Celestia, Macoun, Pilot, and Pinova. Cider is available for purchase at Harvest Lane Farm

Some of POTOMAC pawpaws picked yesterday and today. They are very large this year! Sizes for most are a pound or more....
09/16/2025

Some of POTOMAC pawpaws picked yesterday and today. They are very large this year! Sizes for most are a pound or more. Weights shown are in pounds and ounces

Jake and Otis supervising apple picking today.
09/02/2025

Jake and Otis supervising apple picking today.

Labor Day = Apple Day. Here are some of the varieties of apples going into tomorrow's batch of cider: Captain Kidd, Qu...
09/01/2025

Labor Day = Apple Day. Here are some of the varieties of apples going into tomorrow's batch of cider: Captain Kidd, Queen Cox, Priam, Karmin de Sonnaville, Bramley's Seedling, McIntosh, Crimson Crisp ,Redlove Sirena (red flesh), Star Gala, Brookfield Gala, Sweet Sixteen and Elstar. Should be Harvest Lane Farm late tomorrow afternoon.

Found nasty infestation of Spotted Lanternfly on Tree of Heaven by orchard...they are now history.
08/31/2025

Found nasty infestation of Spotted Lanternfly on Tree of Heaven by orchard...they are now history.

Time to pick apples for cider! Some of Apples that will be going into first batch. Apples will be pressed and jugge...
08/30/2025

Time to pick apples for cider! Some of Apples that will be going into first batch. Apples will be pressed and jugged Tuesday at Bauman Family Fruit Butters & Cider and available for purchase at Harvest Lane Farm

First Cider Pressing scheduled for next Tuesday...apples and pawpaws are very l early this year.
08/25/2025

First Cider Pressing scheduled for next Tuesday...apples and pawpaws are very l early this year.

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