10/13/2025
Please come visit us at Old Apple Valley Farms, Fall 2025 Loudoun County Fall Farm Tour
Oct 18 and 19 10:00am to 4:00pm
Number 29 on the Fall Farm Tour Map
Have you ever been inside a Honey bee hive? Do you know how they live and make honey? We show you what a hive is like (without any bees). Old Apple Valley Farms js number 29 on the Farm Tour map.
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Old Apple Valley Farms is a family owned vegetable and fruit farm as well as a Honey bee Apiary in western Loudoun County. Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB). For this year's farm tour we will have the usual bee hive demonstration (see below) and we will be selling our own Honey and beeswax items. We normally sell out of honey quickly. It is First Come First Serve. Other products we may have available are chestnuts and pears, and perhaps some vegetables (Tomatoes or peppers, depending on weather). We also sell our pond muck KOI pond fish emulsion which is a great general use plant fertilizer. We will feed the Koi at 4:00pm on Saturday and Sunday, a nice treat for the children to see. We also have hand crafted wooden shelves in various sizes, some with a “live edge”. Other products include Heritage corn husk flowers, various organically grown vegetables and fruit.
Our family includes many generations of farming and agriculture from Italy, Switzerland, Germany, and Ireland. It includes Olive groves, Hazelnut groves, dairy, beef, wheat, oats, corn, hay, etc, over hundreds of years. Take a picture of your children on a John Deere tractor. The bee presentation will include seeing all the parts of a hive (without the bees) and a detailed description of their life cycle. Children will get to taste honey straight from the honey comb frame, if they wish and dress up in a bee bonnet so that they can pretend to be a "beekeeper". Our demo will be limited to our front patio area with parking available in the field. We ask that all individuals keep a safe distance from the apiary. Please come out and visit with us!
We will have activities :
Honey Bee Hive Demonstration – no live bees
Honey tasting – straight from the hive frame
Supervised Feeding KOI fish in small pond
Supervised horse petting
Supervised pictures of kids on tractors (please do not turn on lights)
Supervised Garden Walk (Do you know what asparagus or a chestnut trees looks like?)
Supervised Native Virginia Tree identification walk
We will have for sale:
Honey, Hand Crafted Wooden shelves/coat racks, Chestnuts, Decorative Corn Stalks – cut to length, Sweet Potatoes, Pears, Tomatoes, Peppers, Green Tomatoes, Gail’s Farm Christmas Decorations, Potted Marigolds, Heritage Corn Husk Flowers
