This weekend is shaping up to be a Harvest Festival weekend for the books as our 100^th Anniversary Celebration continues! We’ve got a spectacular lineup of centennial happenings, and are bringing back some fan-favorite events. We hope you and your family will join us!

Farm-To-Table Restaurant Groundbreaking Ceremony

This Sunday, September 29^th, at 1:00 pm, we’ll be hosting a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of construction on our brand-new, state-of-the-art facility. Special guests attending the celebration will be State Senator Nancy Stiles, New Hampshire Commissioner of Agriculture Lorraine Merrill and Representative Elaine Ahearn.

With a planned completion in the fall of 2014, this new building will include a farm stand, bakery and farm-to-table restaurant. There will be few purer expressions of the farm-to-table concept than at our bistro-style restaurant! The menu will change not just by the season, but by the day, with a menu sourced literally out the front door. With its stone fireplace and orchard views, the restaurant will also provide a year-round community gathering place, where locals and passersby alike can meet and chat over a bite to eat. In the evenings, the restaurant and lantern-lit fieldstone patio will be a haven for a season-long dinner series and select private functions. The 12,000 sq. ft. store will enable us to better serve the community by providing an expanded retail space to accommodate a vast array of grown-on-the-farm fruits and vegetables, bakery items, artisan goods and other local products.

As a part of our continued efforts towards energy self-sufficiency, the new building will be fitted with a roof-mounted PV solar array, complementing the farm’s existing 50KW system. Once this solar array is installed, the farm will be nearly 100% off the grid at peak season.

We hope you’ll join us to celebrate this exciting expansion!

Applecrest Rules!

Saturday and Sunday, at 2:45pm, an Applecrest Memoirette by world-renowned author John Irving will be read aloud, along with an excerpt from his novel, The Cider House Rules. John tapped into his experiences working at Applecrest to write the 1985 novel. Although John Irving will not be able to join us in person, he wrote the memoirette for the centennial occasion. Join us in celebrating this literary legend and his ties to the farm.

Our Biggest Prize Weekend Yet

Have fun and win big this weekend with lots of chances to score prizes! Prizes include T-shirts, pumpkins, bags of apples, and $100 bills. And, of course, ALL participants of the pie-eating contest are instant winners of a plate of fresh apple pie! Bragging rights for the entire year are also up for grabs.

For the second weekend in a row, we’ll be tucking $100 bills into a few pick-your-own bags. Last weekend, four lucky winners walked away with benjamins—this weekend could be your turn!

Think you’re a master peeler? Try for the longest peel in our apple-peeling contest and win $100! How about guessing the weight of a giant pumpkin or the number of apples in a bin? Check the schedule below and join us in our ongoing 100^th Anniversary Celebration. See you at the farm!

Schedule at-a-glance:

Saturday, September 28^th

All Day: Find a PYO $100 Bill, Longest Apple Peel Contest, Giant Pumpkin Guess-The-Weight Contest, How Many Apples in the Bin Contest

Sunday, September 29^th

All Day: Find a PYO $100 Bill, Longest Apple Peel Contest, Giant Pumpkin Guess-The-Weight Contest, How Many Apples in the Bin Contest

Learn more about our Fall Harvest Festivals and other upcoming events over on our Festivals & Happenings page.