FALL FESTIVALS

Click here for the 2012 Festival Music Schedule

2012 marks the 38th year running that Applecrest has invited our community to celebrate and share in the harvest. Our Festivals offer a break from the tangle of everyday living with pure and simple, honest-to-goodness family fun. They’re a time when moms and dads, grandparents and grandchildren, can reconnect with each other and with the land to make memories that last a lifetime. So, grab the gang and come visit us at Applecrest where, as always, admission and parking is FREE. See you at the farm!

Our Fall festivals launch on the first weekend in September and run from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., both Saturday and Sunday, every weekend, through the end of October. Here’s what you can expect:

• Pick-Your-Own Apples, Raspberries, Peaches & Pumpkins. Cut-your-own flowers too!
• FREE live Folk and Bluegrass music (1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.)
• Old-Fashioned ice cream barn with 25 local-made flavors featuring our own grown-on-the-farm fruits.
• Horse-drawn Hayrides (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.)
• Children's Petting Zoo (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m.)
• Face Painting & Balloons
• Pie Eating Contests
• Apple Pie & Ice Cream
• Old-Fashioned Hot Cider Donuts
• Make-your-own Scarecrow
• Our Famous Corn Roast featuring: grilled gourmet sausages, hot dogs, hamburgers, fire-roasted corn, Maine clam chowder, fresh pressed apple cider and more.

STRAWBERRY FESTIVAL: Sunday, June 17, 2012 (10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.)

Four rolling acres of juicy berries and a cool spring-fed pond provide the backdrop for a fun-filled day of Pick-Your-Own strawberries, free live bluegrass music, tractor drawn hayrides, face painting, gourmet sausage grill, cider donuts and a bevy of strawberry inspired delicacies from our very own scratch kitchen and bakery.

LOZILU WOMEN’S MUD RUN: Saturday, July 7th, 2012

A fabulously fun 5k obstacle course filled with slip 'n slides, balancing features, challenging wall climbs and more than a bit of mud. After navigating the farm, your post-race party keeps the fun flowing with free wine and grooving music (and yes, we’ve got on-site showers). LoziLu’s mission is to help spread happiness, health and fitness throughout the world by leveraging the familial influence of women and a portion of proceeds helps support leukemia & lymphoma research.

For more info about the race, click here.

PEACH FESTIVAL: Sunday, Aug 19, 2012 (10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

Our 7th annual celebration of all things peachy! Applecrest is home to more than 20 distinct varieties of succulent tree-ripened peaches, nectarines and plums. Come spend the day and pick ‘em straight from the tree. Our peach festival features free live bluegrass music, tractor-drawn hayrides to the peach orchard, our famous corn roast and sausage grill, hot cider donuts and every peach inspired yummy under the sun.

HALF-MARATHON ROAD RACE: Sunday, September 2, 2012 (8:30 a.m. start-time)

Our way of getting the season off to a running start! The 1st Annual Applecrest Half-Marathon starts and finishes right here at the farm. Moderately hilly but, designed for just about any runner or walker, the course runs on 100% rural NH back roads. At the finish, runners are treated to fresh-baked apple pie and ice cream and a tall glass of our famous wood-pressed apple cider.

For more info about the race, click here.

ANTIQUE TRACTOR SHOW: Sunday, September 9, 2012

Join us for our 6th Annual Antique Tractor Show featuring an amazing array of old-timer antique tractors, courtesy of the East Coast Antique Tractor Club. From a 1919 steel-wheeled International to an extremely rare 1958 John Deere 730 diesel, there’s plenty of eye candy for all.

ANTIQUE CAR SHOW: Sunday, October 14, 2012

Like old cars? Well, this is the place to be. For the 11th year running, Applecrest is hosting the North Shore Antique Car Club and forty-odd of their best and brightest. Come marvel at the chrome gleam of some of the coolest cars ever to hit the road.

ANTIQUE TRACTOR PLOW DAY: Sunday, October 21, 2012

What better way to end a great season then to....PLOW! We're very pleased to once again welcome the East Coast Antique Tractor Club for our 6th Annual Applecrest Plow Day. An army of old-timer tractors will be helping us get ready for winter, ripping and roaring and turning earth all the farm over. So, gather little Jack and Jane and join us here at the farm to revel in the fall foliage and see how they used to do it.

STORYBOOK HAYRIDES: October 20th, 21st, 27th & 28th, 2012 (11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.)

Beloved fairy tale characters take to our orchards, performing sweet vignettes for children perched on a roving tractor-drawn hay wagon. In eight lively scenes, kids partake in the classics, warning Little Red of the approaching wolf, watching Humpty Dumpty have his great fall, helping Dorothy and The Scarecrow along the yellow brick road and much, much more.

A note to all Kiddos: costumes, though not required, are always warmly welcomed!

Fee: $6.00 per/person (infants ride free). Proceeds help finance the Sanborn Regional High School Drama Club's yearly sojourn to The Big Apple for a Broadway show. Come support the students and enjoy some good, old-fashioned Halloween fun.

THE APPLE DASH 5k: Saturday, October 27, 2012

A true cross-country trail run and one FUN race! If you like to get dirty and challenge yourself with hills, mud and water, this race is for you. Our 5k course takes runners through the orchards, fields and trails of the farm, weaving in and out of apple tree rows for a challenging finish! A bonus 1-miler and free kids run are followed with free live bluegrass, award ceremony and spectacular refreshments.

For more info about the Apple Dash click here.

ORCHARD CROSS BIKE RACE: Sunday, October 28, 2012

Our very own sprint to the finish! Applecrest is proud to once again host NorEast Cycling and the New England Cyclocross Championships for the 4th Annual Orchard Cross bike race. This unique 100 year-old cycling tradition is a real treat to watch. With plenty of sleek spandex, suped-up bikes and a 2-mile looped multi-terrain orchard course, this cyclo-cross event is one not to be missed. Also featuring a kid’s race, an all-ages costume rally and a pumpkin carving contest.

For more info about the Orchard Cross bike race click here.

 

2012 Festival Music Schedule & List of Performers:

Note: as Mother Nature sometimes dashes our best intentions, please call ahead for up-to-the-minute festival info and picking conditions.

Strawberry Festival

Sun, Jun 17, 2012: Taylor River Band Taylor River Band

Peach Festival

Sunday, Aug 19, 2012: Taylor River Band

Labor Day Weekend Festival

Sat, Sep 1, 2012: Granite Grass
Sun, Sep 2, 2012: Granite Grass (also featuring our 1st Annual Applecrest Half-Marathon)
Mon, Sep 3, 2012: Taylor River Band

Harvest Kick-Off

Sat, Sep 8, 2012: Granite Grass
Sun, Sep 9, 2012: Granite Grass (also featuring our 6th Annual Antique Tractor Show)

Indian Summer Festival

Sat, Sep 15, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass
Sun, Sep 16, 2012: Chad Hollister

Autumn Equinox

Sat, Sep 22, 2012: Southern Rail
Sun, Sep 23, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass

Oktoberfest

Sat, Sep 29, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass
Sun, Sep 30, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass

Columbus Day Weekend Festival

Sat, Oct 6, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass
Sun, Oct 7, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass
Mon, Oct 8, 2012: Southern Rail

Harvest Hoedown

Sat, Oct 13, 2012: Southern Rail
Sun, Oct 14, 2012: White Mountain Blue Grass
(also featuring our 11th Annual Antique Car Show)

Storybook Hayrides

Sat, Oct 20, 2012: Southern Rail
Sun, Oct 21, 2012: Granite Grass (also featuring our 6th Annual Antique Tractor Plow Day)

Storybook Hayrides & Harvest Closer

Sat, Oct 27, 2012: Granite Grass (also featuring the 1st Annual Apple Dash X-country race)
Sun, Oct 28, 2012: Taylor River Band (also featuring the 4th Annual OrchardCross Bike Race)