We have four weekends left of our farm stand to be open for apple picking, picnics, cider donuts, pumpkins and play. Thank you to everyone who has come thus far and supported are small family farm. It really means the world to be so backed by our community. I personally invite you all out to our farm for a lovely autumn day with your family and friends to pick our some pumpkins.

Great fall opportunities for pumpkin pictures with your littles

The morning October air is crisp and refreshing and we still have plenty of pumpkins in our patch so please come on by and tell your friends about Parkdales only pumpkin patch. We also have some award winning unpasteurized cider of you to purchase and enjoy. We still have a lot of apple picking at 50cents a pound. We are in our last month of being open full time and we would love to have you as our guests one day on our small family farm. xoxo your grateful farmer.

I personally invite you all out these next few weekends in October to come apple picking at Mt. View Orchards. Now is time of year to gather your friends and family and make the lovely trip out to our small old fashioned farm located at the base of the majestic Mt. Hood. All the leaves on the farm are turning golden, deep burgundy, bright red or school bus yellow so it is a picturesque time of year as your walk through our farm or go for a hay ride around the perimeter of our farm. We grow over 50 different kinds of apples and they are ready to be picked this month. Come for an apple picking party this weekend and take home some of the tastiest apples around. We are having an endless summer this Autumn and the weather is going to be warm again this weekend so pack up a picnic lunch and plan to come pick some farm fresh apples today.

We are so grateful for the many local customers who come each week to buy fresh fruit from our orchard. It really means the world to us and my heart is always so full of gratitude when our farming family shows up to support us and keep us going.&nbs… — We are so grateful for the many local customers who come each week to buy fresh fruit from our orchard. It really means the world to us and my heart is always so full of gratitude when our farming family shows up to support us and keep us going. Our fruit stand is open 7 days a week till November 3nd, 2014 and our hours are from 9-5pm. Our address is 6670 trout creek ridge Rd, Mount Hood-Parkdale Oregon 97041 mtvieworchards@gmail.com
**Check out this video of what it is like visiting Mt. View Orchards**

Eating a few apples in the orchard is very much allowed and strongly encouraged farming friends when you are apple picking at Mt. View Orchards. Also please bring your gentle dogs on a leash, they are welcome as well.

Its the most wonderful time of the year at Mt. View Orchards. The air is filled with mouthwatering sweetness. I know there are are many weekend adventure options out there and but I would be honored if you would come and enjoy the fruit of our labor this October. We need more farming friends and good homes for our 2014's apple crop. The apples this year are so abundant, clean and delicious. Our farm really is your farm and enjoying your favorite kind of apple as a snack, making apple sauce, apple pie, apple crisp, adding them to salads, baked apples and drying apples will fill all your senses with delight and your homes will smell heavenly. Apples are stunning to behold on the trees. They are so inviting to reach up for and pick from the trees. They smell absolutely sweet and juicy. They make a perfect crunch sound in your ears as your enjoy them and they fill your taste buds with tart pleasure. Some of the many varieties we grow here on our farm are Winter Bananas, Romes, Fugis, Jonagolds(red and gold), Honeycrisps, Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Akanes, Galas, Granny Smiths, Gravensteins, Newtown Pippins, Kings, Braeburns, Jonathans, Criterions, McIntosh, Melrose, Empires, Spartans, and Spitzenburg apples. Please get the word out to your neighbors about our small family farm and I hope to see you soon for apple picking at Mt. View Orchards. xoxo, your grateful farmer.

(We also have some of the sweetest blueberries we have ever sold on the farm right now and its not to late to get some. But they are the last of the season so hurry on up friends if you want to freeze some for the coming year.)

Teaching your children where there fruit comes from and what an apple tree looks like is very key to their awareness of why we need small family farms and farmers.  Small family farms are sadly on the decline and the only way for farmers to mai… — Teaching your children where there fruit comes from and what an apple tree looks like is very key to their awareness of why we need small family farms and farmers. Small family farms are sadly on the decline and the only way for farmers to maintain their land is by having loyal customers that for go getting their fruit at big box stores but chose to buy directly from their farmer. Thank you for choosing to partner with us and helping to save the family farm.

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The grateful farmer is a blog about a woman who left her job in the the city to come home to save the family farm. My desire is to candidly share my journey learning how to farm a 50 acre Orchard at the base of Mt. Hood. I invite you to follow along as I share seasonal recipes, childhood memories, farming successes and failures. Please enjoy the Orchard photos collaging the beautiful seasons and harvests here at Mt. View Orchards. I am grateful and humbled that are you are reading along and want you to know that my farm is your farm.

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