Heirloom Orchards
Eleven varieties of apple, four of pear, and a quiet corner of Italian plums — pruned by hand each February.
Est. on 38 acres · Willamette Valley
Where the season
Where the season
writes the menu.
A working family harvest in Oregon — heirloom orchards, slow-grown vegetables, and quiet mornings spent in the rows. Come pick, come stay, come taste what patience tastes like.
Certified Oregon Tilth·
Salmon-Safe Farm·
Featured in Edible Portland·
Pollinator Habitat Partner·
Family Owned Since 1978
What grows here
Honest food, grown the slow way.
Three generations have worked these fields. We farm by hand, by season, and by the weather the valley gives us — nothing forced, nothing rushed.
Field & Garden
Kale, squash, beans, and tomatoes raised in cover-cropped soil. What you taste in August was planted in March.
Honey & Preserves
Wildflower honey from our own hives, plus small-batch jams put up each week in the farmhouse kitchen.
U-Pick Days
Weekend mornings from June through October. Bring a basket, bring the kids, bring your grandmother.
— Joy & Henrik Skipper, founders
Why people return
It isn't only about the food.
It's the way the orchard smells after rain. The crunch of gravel under your boots. The pause between picking one row and starting the next. We've spent forty-seven years learning that the best part of a harvest is the company you keep while doing it.
- 01Hand-tended fields — no industrial machinery in our rows.
- 02Seasonal honesty — we sell what's ripe, not what's trending.
- 03A welcome for everyone — children, dogs on leash, slow walkers.
- 04Pollinator hedgerows on every field border since 2003.
From the fields
A season in pictures
Kind words
From neighbors, regulars, and Sunday visitors.
"We've been bringing our kids here for nine summers. The apple cider on a foggy October morning is something they'll remember their whole lives."
"Their tomatoes ruined supermarket tomatoes for me. I drive forty minutes each weekend and I'd drive twice that."
"Joy walked us through the hedgerow and named every plant. You don't get afternoons like that anymore."
Find us
4218 Bethel Heights Road
4218 Bethel Heights Road
Salem, Oregon 97304
Twelve minutes west of downtown Salem. Look for the white farmhouse and the hand-painted apple sign at the gate.