Farm Tours
Welcome to Apple Acres Farm, where adventure meets nature (plus farm animals)! Join us for a unique farm experience that includes guided tours and classes by Farmer Heather.
2025 tour offerings include:
(see below for tour descriptions and schedules)
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Winter Goat Hiking (December-March)
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Maple syrup making (~mid-March through mid-April)
We do our best to offer tours and experiences at convenient times. If you are interested in a tour on a different day or time than what is offered, please let us know! We will do our best to adjust tour offerings to better suit your schedule when possible. Typically, we like at least one week advance notice for each request.
We appreciate your interest in our farm tours as well as your understanding for our need to balance daily farm work with sharing the farm with visitors!
We also offer small private events and gatherings. Past groups have included school tours, small group retreats, and bachelorette celebrations. We enjoy working with each group to develop a tailored tour package. Please contact us for more information and to schedule your private farm event.
DISCOUNTS!
For tours, we offer a 25% discount for children 12 and younger (coupon code FarmKids) as well as a 15% discount for groups of four or more (coupon code GroupFun). These offers do not apply to retreats or workshops.
FARM TOURS AND EXPERIENCES
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An immersion into the world of fungi, focusing on foraging for wild edible and medicinal mushrooms
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CHOOSE YOUR FARM ADVENTURE
Every tour, experience and class we offer is tailored to the interests of each group. Regardless of the tour, we like to provide opportunities for visitors to meet our farm animals and learn about other aspects of the farm, if they express an interest! In general, we've found visitors enjoy experiencing and connecting with a vibrant, sustainable, and human-scaled farm.
Our farm animals are always a favorite, especially the goats (baby chicks are a close second)! Thus, they feature prominently in many of our tours, which is only right as they are our most dedicated farm workers! As our farm has grown and diversified, so too have our tour offerings, so check back periodically for new tours.
Our farm tours are also family friendly and we are happy to accommodate families with children. We also offer private events for those looking to celebrate in a beautiful, serene environment.
Farming isn't for everyone, but farm tours and experiences are!
It's hard not to fall in love with our three goats, marvel at the superorganism that is a honey bee hive (especially when it reaches 60,000+ bees in the peak of summer!), laugh at the fascinating antics of our free-range chicken flock, or be astounded at diversity of wild mushrooms growing all around us.
Spending time on a small-scale, regenerative farm not only allows visitors to connect more deeply with the natural world (of which our sustainable food system is a part), but it's also fun and relaxing. Don't believe us? Check out our past farm tour reviews below.
TOUR REVIEWS
Heather has done an amazing job developing a self-sustaining farm in the most thoughtful way possible. The beekeeping experience was fun and our kids enjoyed getting up close with the bees. Heather was a great guide and understood all aspects of her property. It will be a joy to see how the farm changes over time under her expert hand.
-Matt
The experience was awesome! We both learned a lot, and Heather had a great deal of knowledge. She had everything prepared and explained the whole process to use so that we could get a basic understanding of the whole process. She was a great host and I would highly recommend this adventure to anyone!
-Zack
Heather is very knowledgeable and was a fun guide on our mushroom foraging experience. We enjoyed seeing her homestead and learning how she uses responsible foraging and other sustainable practices. My husband and I really enjoyed the experience
-Chuck and Anna
Heather’s property is gorgeous and her chickens and goats were a fun addition to the experience. She is very knowledgeable, friendly and kind and we learned a lot about wild mushrooms!
-Sarah
This was a really fun way to learn about bees and beekeeping! I thought I knew a bit about bees already, but Heather taught us so much more! We could tell she genuinely cared for the bees' welfare, as well as that of the other animals on her property. Now, I'm looking forward to learning more about beekeeping, and maybe have bees of my own in the future!
-Elise
We went for the mushroom education, but Heather’s chickens and goats and the whole woodsy farmstead was a treat. We learned a lot and found an amazing number of different species (a dozen or so). Now we’re noticing mushrooms everywhere we go and it’s a blast!
-Jon