Honey Bear Orchards

09/07/2026

From functional fruit sales barn to beautiful wedding reception venue!

Congratulations K ❤️ D!
August 2026

06/20/2026

Our Daughter is opening her Black Raspberry patch this coming week - check out her post if you are interested in picking!

BLACK RASPBERRY picking information!

We will be open for PICK YOUR OWN black raspberries starting Monday June 22!

Picking Hours:
Monday 6/22 - 9 am - 2 pm
Wednesday 6/24 - 9 am - 7 pm
Saturday June 27 - 9 am - 2 pm

We expect to be open several days the week of June 29th as well!

Berries are $6.00 per quart

Our Farm is located at 1800 Thompson Ave Lebanon PA 17046 - we will have signs at the end of our lane!

At this time we are not taking orders for pre picked berries - but as the crop ripens that may change.

06/12/2026

Just a reminder we will not have sweet or sour cherries this year because of a hard freeze in late April. It's still hard to believe that row after row of these beautiful fruit trees are bare!
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For those of you asking about black raspberries - they are looking good and should be in season in a couple of weeks. They are located at 1800 Thompson Ave. Lebanon, at August Acres. (Our daughter's farm) Please follow on their fb page (August Acres) for information as the season draws closer! We will also keep you posted here.

We miss you already!

05/10/2026

We have certainly been surprised and truly grateful at the overwhelming support, concern and prayers on behalf of our family. We greatly appreciate the people who come each summer to our orchard!
It was a pleasure to have CBS 21 news come and interview us concerning the impact of the April 21st freeze. The CBS team was both genuine and professional as they assembled the points of interest for the news segment.
The value of the potential crop loss, as reported, was accurate. As with most farms, every spring brings fresh hope for a potentially good year. But as farming is very weather dependent events like frosts, freezes, insects, or markets can really take a toll on expected income, as we well know. However, whether it’s a great year, average year, or poor year, input costs remain the same. This is a management scenario most farms take very seriously as we do, and prepare for it financially through rainy day funds, insurance, diversity in crops, etc.
Coping with the emotional aspect of something like this can be difficult and at times discouraging. But regardless whether God choses to prosper us or God choses to shape us through adversity our desire is to honor God in our lives as we move forward. So, as God gives us health and strength we will try again next year (2027) to produce our crops of fresh fruits and vegetables for you, our valued customers!

With much love,
Your Honey Bear Family and Staff
(Including Juliet and Georgia, our granddaughters, who are excited to be old enough to wait on customers next year!)

05/07/2026

During the overnight hours of Monday, April 20, 2026, our orchard experienced a killing freeze with a low temperature of 24 degrees. Our fruit trees, in full bloom, were especially vulnerable and unable to survive these extremely cold temperatures. As a result, we have lost 100% of our fruit crops for this year.

To clarify, we will not have the following fruit available this season:

Cherries (sweet and sour)
Plums
Apricots
Peaches
Nectarines
Pears
Apples

Because we only sell what we grow here on our farm, we have made the difficult decision to remain closed for the 2026 season.

We have never in our 40+ years of growing fruit experienced a freeze of this magnitude. But farmers are a resilient bunch, and come next Spring, we will give it another try! In the meantime, we will try to use this unexpected "extra" time to work on projects, maintain the farm and orchards, and enjoy some summer R & R!

Thank you for supporting our small family orchard. We appreciate each one of you and will miss seeing you this year. We look forward to the 2027 season and catching up with each of you at that time.

03/31/2026

Apricot Bloom - March 31, 2026
Fingers crossed!! 🤞