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U-Pick Now Opening!
We're now opening our Gravenstein and Glen Seedling orchards for u-picking. You don't need to call ahead if you are coming up on the weekends. Our hours are 10 to 4. You can also pick raspberries and blackberries. If you want to come up on a weekday please give us a call to make sure the store is open. Prices re still $2.50 per pound with a discount for amounts of 40 lbs or more. Berries are $4 per pint. Other activities will begin Labor Day weekend. See Ya!
Coming on September 11, 2010: Gilbert & Sullivan's "Pirates and Pinafore" Dinner Show
Dates: September 11 and12, 2010 (with a matinee on Sunday the 12th)
WOW! Win a free night's stay at the wonderful 
Serendipity Ranch Bed and Breakfast in beautiful Oak Glen. Buy a ticket for any performance of "Pirates and Pinafore" and drop your ticket stub in the box when you come to the show. We will have the drawing at the completion of Sunday's matinee show. Friday and Saturday ticket holders will be notified by mail or phone. This coupon is worth $165 and entitles the winner for one night's stay, double occupancy - a little bit of heaven in cool, green Oak Glen.
Click on the "need a place to stay?" button for a look at Serendipity's website. Then go to our Harvest.RileysAppleFarm.com website for more information on the show. You can buy tickets online or by phone.
Part of the old Wilshire homestead established in 1877, Riley's Apple Farm is located in the small mountain hamlet of Oak Glen, California situated midway between Palm Springs and Big Bear. We are a working historical farm where you can experience the joy of picking fruit, pressing cider, making a rope, stacking a log cabin, and many other activities that bring-to-life the farm ways and customs of long ago.
The elevation is about 5,000 feet and is ideal for the cultivation of apples. We have four seasons, snowfall in the winter, and reasonably cool summers. While maintaining the care of trees planted as early as 1887, we currently cultivate 14 varieties of apples - both new varieties such as Fuji, and some heirloom varieties such as Winesaps, Northern Spy, Jonathans, Starkey Reds, McIntosh and so on. Most of the apple trees are the "seedling" type: trees grown from an apple seed rather than a piece of root stock. These are the fabled large spreading trees that have largely disappeared and have been replaced by modern "dwarf" trees. So if you want to sit "in the shade of the old apple tree," you can do it here!
