Local Apples: An Appealing Fall Treat

Local Apples: An Appealing Fall Treat

Northeast Ohio’s favorite fall crop is hitting fruit stands and markets now through November. If you like apples then this is your time to check out the area’s best orchards. Pick your own or grab a bag and enjoy.

If you need suggestions for where to find locally grown apples right off the tree, go to ohioapples.com for a list of places to visit.

Some of our favorites are:

Hillside Orchard and Farm Market

2397 Center Road
Hinckley, OH 44233-0281
330-225-4748
Hillside Orchard & Farm Market

Patterson Fruit Farm

8765 Mulberry Road
Chesterland, OH
440.729.1964
PattersonFarm.com

Monroe’s Orchard and Farm Market

6313 Pioneer Trail
Hiram, OH 44234
866-519-9657
PioneerTrailOrchard.com 

Here’s advice from Ohio Apples:

For the best apple experience, pick the right apple for the apple treat you are planning. Please remember that not every orchard grows every variety of apple, so contact your orchard to see what they have available, and what’s ripe.

Variety Flavor/Text Eating Salads Sauce Pies Baking Freezing
Summer sour-tender fair fair good good poor sauce
McIntosh spicy-tender excellent excellent good good good sauce
Jonathon tart-spicy excellent excellent good excellent excellent slices
Red Delicious sweet-rich excellent excellent poor fair good not recomm
Golden Delicious rich-semifrm excellent excellent good good excellent slices/sauce
Law Rome bland-milfrm good fair good excellent excellent slices
Stayman spicy-firm good excellent good good excellent slices/sauce
Empire tart-tender excellent excellent good excellent excellent slices
Melrose crisp-mild excellent excellent excellent good excellent slices/sauce
Crispin spicy-firm good good fair excellent excellent slices
Criterion sweet-firm excellent excellent good excellent excellent slices
Fuji sweet-hard excellent excellent not/rec excellent excellent slices
Gala sweet-firm excellent excellent not/rec excellent excellent slices
Granny Smith tart-hard fair excellent not/rec excellent excellent slices
Red Cort tart-spicy excellent excellent good good good sauce

About the author

Marie Elium joined Mitchell Media in 2015 as editor of Northeast Ohio Thrive, formerly Boomer magazine. A freelance writer for 45 years and a former newspaper reporter, she believes everyone has a story worth telling. She resides in Portage County where she grows flowers, tends chickens and bees and Facetimes with her young grandsons. Marie can be reached at [email protected]

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