Apple-A-Day at Ratzlaff Ranch is a “local, family-run business in Sebastopol, CA. We raise apples and pears and make our award winning Apple-A-Day apple juice. Our juice/cider is made using 100% pure premium apples, absolutely nothing added. Our ranch grows Gravenstein, Golden Delicious, and Rome apples. U-pick is offered September & October.”

Apple A Day

You can pick Granny Smith apples at Corcoran Ranch Apple Orchard.  

“Picking Hours:  10:00 am-4:30 pm

We provide plastic bags, pickers, 6 picnic tables, and recipes.

No dogs, please.”

Corcoran Ranch Apple Orchard

The original orchard at Apple Starr Orchard was “planted by the  Farmer family after whom “Farmers Road”, the road to the town, is named. Apple Starr Orchard parcels cover approximately 28 acres of which  8 acres are planted with apples and pears.  Parts of the land were earlier used as a milk dairy. The old barn was constructed in the early 1900s.  

The Orchard 

There are approximately 1000 trees with their numbers balanced between apples and pears.  The trees range in age from 20 to 70 years and the majority have low branches that children can access.  We only use certified organic products and are inspected annually to maintain our certification.

Granny

Bright green apple, flesh is bright white and crisp in texture with a tart, acidic, yet subtly sweet flavor.

Jonagold

Has a sweet-tart taste, large in size its flesh is crisp, juicy and creamy yellow in color.

Roma

Creamy yellow flesh is crisp and dense offering a mildly sweet and tangy flavor.

Arkansas Black

Highly aromatic and sweet-tart flavor mellows, with a fine-grained and crisp texture.

Red Delicious

Mildly sweet flavor, creamy white flesh is slightly crisp.

Wealthy

Crisp with a tart flavor, apple is excellent and delicious.

AND MORE     Fuji, Gala, Wealthy”

Apple Starr Orchard

Volcan Valley Apple Farm “will open this fall as soon as the first varieties ripen, at 9am! And then Friday-Monday until the apples are gone.
Apple bags hold 6-7 lbs of delicious apples and are $15/bag, cash OR credit (includes admission)! $5 admission for people who don’t have a bag (check for current prices). Children 5 and under are free.
 
OPEN 9am to 5:00pm. No admission after 4:30. Gates will lock at 5:00pm.  We have seven varieties of apples, ripening sequentially through mid September.
 
We have a new open passage through the rows mid-orchard. PLEASE DO NOT cross through rows over the wires — it’s really destructive.”
 
 
 

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