It’s time to book your apple, pumpkin or cider making field trips!

*We are now booking for the 2025 season!*

You can scroll to the bottom of this page to submit a request for more information (look for a red button that says “Get More Info”), or call 978-365-4331.

Option 1— Meet and Pick option. This will give your students time to meet the farmer, ask a few questions, go pick apples or pumpkins, and spend some time with the farm animals. This can be accomplished in a little over an hour and will allow your students to enjoy a beautiful, outdoor setting. The cost for this program is $4.50 per student and includes a 1/4 peck bag of apples or a pumpkin for each child to pick from the trees or patches. 

Option 2—This is the same as above with the addition of our delicious apple cider and cider donuts. The cost for this is $6.00 per student.

Option 3—This is similar to option 1, but will add Farmer Hill’s Educational Scavenger Hunt, which takes approximately 40 additional minutes if you choose to find all of the hidden stations. Students will be divided into groups of 5-8 and will be given instructions on how to read the maps and mark the handout sheets. The cost for this option is $5.25 per student and includes 1/4 peck of apples (or a pumpkin) and animal visit. Add cider and cider donuts for a total of $6.75.

Option 4—-Cider pressing. This program begins on October 14, after Columbus day. The cost for the cider making program depends on the size of your group. Groups of 20 or more participants, $7.50 per student; 10 -19 participants, $10.00 per student; under 10 participants, $15.00. Add cider and donuts, $1.50 each. The cider pressing program includes gathering apples, cider making, a hayride, the Scavenger Hunt and a pint of pasturized cider for each child to take home.

You probably noticed that the hayrides are only included in the Cider Making Program. The cost to man and operate them has gotten very expensive, so we have made this an optional activity. This allows groups with a limited budget to have a basic, inexpensive farm picking experience. Those that have a better budget can add the hayride if they have time. Groups with over 50 riders will pay a $45.00 flat fee for the hayride. Groups with 20 - 50 riders will pay a flat fee of $30 for the hayride, and groups under 20 riders will pay a flat fee of $25 for the hayride.

If you prefer to choose only donuts or only cider instead of having both, the cost will be $0.85 for donuts and $0.65 for cider.

**Quantities of apples available for picking may vary from year to year. As in all farming enterprises, weather plays a major role in determining the size of a crop. At times, guests may need to harvest apples from bins rather than trees.

Keep things simple, use our online reservation system!

Not ready to commit? 

We would be glad to provide you with more information to help with the decision process.

Or, for more information or to make a reservation over the phone, call 1-978-365-4331.