At Southern Vermont Orchards Apple Barn you can look forward to fresh fruit to pick, as well as treating yourself to some homemade baked treats.

“Southern Vermont Orchards was originally established in 1910 by Edward Hamlin Everett. Edward Everett began his career as a bottle salesman for his stepfather, the inventor of the Lightning fruit jar (a predecessor to the Ball and Mason jar). Everett proved to be a gifted businessman.

His innovations in the manufacturing of glass and his discovery of large deposits of gas and oil required to fuel these glass factories fostered huge success and great wealth. The main Estate building was referred to as “The Orchard House”

U Pick Farms in Bennington, Vermont