Pick Your own at McDougal Orchards

Pick Your own at McDougal Orchards We are CLOSED for the 2025 season, thank you to everyone who visited! We also offer fresh apple cider donuts, picnic areas, a fairy village, and more!
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McDougal Orchards is a seventh (going on eigth!) generation family farm in Southern Maine dedicated to providing high quality fruit and high quality time spent outdoors. Visit our orchards to pick over 40 varieties of apples, peaches, plums, pears, pumpkins and more, and don't forget to stop at the Farm Store in our historic barn to pick up apple cider, pre-picked fruit and a variety of local products.

Happy June from the orchard!
06/02/2026

Happy June from the orchard!

Enjoying blossoms in the sunshine before the rain comes!
05/12/2026

Enjoying blossoms in the sunshine before the rain comes!

It's a very PINK time of year here! 🩷🌸
05/11/2026

It's a very PINK time of year here! 🩷🌸

Our first few varieties of plums and peaches are blooming! This time of year we always help out our japanese plums by cu...
05/05/2026

Our first few varieties of plums and peaches are blooming! This time of year we always help out our japanese plums by cutting a few flowering branches from each, putting them in jars and placing them under the other variety to hopefully help with cross pollination, especially since our Shiro plum is half-an-orchard away from any compatible pollinator!

Finally got a nice warm day yesterday to do some grafting! *Thumb is wrapped in electrical tape for safety, not because ...
04/28/2026

Finally got a nice warm day yesterday to do some grafting! *Thumb is wrapped in electrical tape for safety, not because of an injury!*
We took some Tolman Sweet scions from our last remaining tree this winter to propagate more of that variety and expand our heirloom section. We are also working on converting part of a less productive row to a different variety (Pristine) that ripens closer to the early season varieties next to it.
Hopefully the grafts will take, only time will tell, but we will be keeping an eye out for green buds in the next week or so!

Some current bud stages, Zestar!, Crispin/Mutsu and Bramley ...things are growing! We are grateful that our trees are mo...
04/27/2026

Some current bud stages, Zestar!, Crispin/Mutsu and Bramley ...things are growing!
We are grateful that our trees are moving along slowly with the recent temperature changes and frosty mornings last week. Our hearts go out to the growers south of us that are dealing with frost damage and crop loss.

First Mayflowers of 2026
04/16/2026

First Mayflowers of 2026

We haven't been posting much lately, but we've been busy! All in the past week...1. Planting new plum trees in 70 degree...
04/14/2026

We haven't been posting much lately, but we've been busy! All in the past week...

1. Planting new plum trees in 70 degree weather,
2. Before...
3. And after of pruning our oldest trees and trying to keep weight off the far ends of limbs
4. Before...
5. And after of using 2-3 year sprouts as branch spreaders
6. And last week pruning in the snow!!

Happy Easter
04/05/2026

Happy Easter

Snow Moon
02/02/2026

Snow Moon

Address

201 Hanson Ridge Road
Springvale, ME
04083

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 6pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

Telephone

+12073245054

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