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The 20 Best Places to Go Pumpkin Picking in New Jersey and New York. 1. Harbes Farms and Harbes Orchard in Jamesport and Riverhead, NY ... there is one—Melick's Town Farm hard cider, apple wine ...
Northern Spy also called 'Spy' and 'King', is a cultivar of domesticated apple that originated on the farm of Oliver Chapin in East Bloomfield, New York, in about 1840. [1] [2] [3] It is popular in upstate New York.
New York State census records from 1875 confirm that the Craver family had hundreds of apple and pear trees in addition to other crops. The existing orchard consists of approximately 30 producing trees and is the only surviving plot of fruit trees planted by the Craver family more than 100 years ago.
A 'York Imperial' apple. The 'York Imperial' is easily identified by its lop-sided shape. [5] [13] It is consistently one of the top-ten-selling apple varieties. [14]The fruit is medium to large, and varies from an oblate-oblique shape to an oval-oblong shape, and the skins are deep red with greenish-yellow streaks and specks, as well as occasional patches of yellow or green.
Agriculture is a major component of the New York economy. [1] As of the 2012 census of agriculture, there were over 35,000 farms covering an area of 7 million acres (28,000 km 2) which contributed $5.4 billion in gross sales value and $1.2 billion in net farm income to the national economy.
William Butters raised the tree in his yard, near the present Baldwin Apple Monument (pictured). According to S. A. Beach's Apples of New York, the Baldwin originated soon after 1740 as a chance seedling on the farm of Mr. John Ball of Wilmington, Massachusetts, and for about 40 years thereafter its cultivation was confined to that immediate ...
Stephenson’s Old Apple Farm Restaurant opened on a family apple orchard in 1946. Over its 60-year history, the restaurant was renovated and expanded at least five times to accommodate more ...
Fishkill Farms is a farm located in East Fishkill in Dutchess County, New York. It is of historic significance primarily because its founder Henry Morgenthau, Jr. and his wife, Elinor Morgenthau were close and enduring family friends of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt. Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, "They were our neighbors in the country ...