Blue jay orchards
✓ 2026 confirmed📍 Bethel, Connecticut
🍎 Apple picking🧺 Farm stand🥬 Produce
| Season & 2026 dates | The orchard's own site says it reopens Labor Day weekend, September 5, and that "apple picking usually runs through the end of October and varieties change each week". Cider pressing begins on the first of September, alongside cider donuts, pies, dessert bread, honey, maple syrup and jam made from the farm's own fruit. It also runs a seasonal pumpkin patch with pick your own pumpkins. |
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| Farm food | 🧺 Farm stand 🥬 Produce |
| How to buy | The Connecticut Grown map lists it under Farm Stands/Stores and Farms. In the farm's own words on the state map: "Apples". |
| Tillage & soil | This farm has not published how it works its soil, so we are not going to guess. If you farm here, tell us and we will add it. See the farms that do say. |
| Good to know | The orchard asks you to call for orchard and farm market hours and to read the rules on its Pick Your Own and On the Farm pages. It says it can no longer provide wagon rides, citing rising fuel and insurance costs and the difficulty of finding skilled drivers, and that tailgating and picnicking are not allowed in its parking lots. |
| Address | 125 Plumtrees Rd, Bethel, CT 06801 |
Before you go
The questions farms get asked on the phone, answered from what this farm published itself. Anything it does not publish is left out rather than guessed.
- Is it open on weekdays?
- weekends only "PICK YOUR OWN APPLES ON SATURDAYS AND SUNDAYS ONLY"
Verification
Last verified 2026-09-09 against these sources:
- portal.ct.gov · https://portal.ct.gov/DOAG/ADaRC/ADaRC/Connecticut-Grown-Map
- ctgrownmap.com · https://www.ctgrownmap.com/
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/flisting?lid=702390&directory_type=onfarmmarket
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/fdirectory_onfarmmarket/
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/flisting?lid=9684&directory_type=agritourism
- usdalocalfoodportal.com · https://www.usdalocalfoodportal.com/fe/fdirectory_agritourism/
Seasons move with the weather. Check the farm's site or socials before visiting, and tell us if anything here looks out of date.