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Apple U-pick is open weekends through October 25. Honeycrisp and Jonagold are ready now.What's picking

High Mesa Orchard
Rows of apple trees heavy with red fruit in late-afternoon light, a wooden picking ladder against one tree and mesas on the horizon

Paloma Mesa · since 1951

Peaches in August. Apples till frost.

A fourth-generation family orchard with a farm stand, U-pick on fall weekends, and cider pressed on the porch.

What's picking nowHours and directions

Stand open June–October · Mon–Sat 9–6, Sun 10–4

Right now

What's picking this week

  • A wooden crate full of red-and-gold Honeycrisp apples on a farm stand table
    In season

    Honeycrisp apples

    Crisp, sweet, and the reason people drive up from town. U-pick and at the stand.

  • Glass jugs of cloudy amber cider lined up on a shaded porch shelf
    In season

    Fresh-pressed cider

    Pressed Saturday mornings from our own apples. Unfiltered, by the half gallon.

  • Baskets of green pears next to a pile of small orange pie pumpkins
    Last week

    Pears and pumpkins

    Bartlett and Bosc pears, plus pie pumpkins from the garden plot.

See the whole harvest calendar

The stand is open.

Fruit, cider, honey, jam, and whatever the garden gave us this week. Cash, card, and tap all welcome.

Hours and directions

June–October: Mon–Sat 9am–6pm, Sun 10am–4pm

U-pick: weekends in season, 9am–3pm

November–May: closed; preorders by email

Coming up

On the farm

  1. A child on a parent's shoulders reaching for an apple in a tree

    Apple U-pick weekend

    9am–3pm · North block

    Bags provided. $2.25 a pound.

  2. Cider pressing day

    10am–2pm · The porch

    Watch the press, taste the first jug, and take some home.

  3. Holiday pie preorders close

    Apple, peach, and cherry pies for Thanksgiving pickup.

    Order by email
All events

Neighbors

Why people come back

  • We've picked here every October since our kids were in strollers. Now they drive us.

    Lisa P.Red Butte

  • The best peaches in the valley, and the cider sells out by noon for a reason.

    Owen T.Paloma

The family

Four generations on the same mesa.

Walt and June Abernathy planted the first peach trees here in 1951. Today their great-grandkids help run the stand, and we farm the same 40 acres with a lot more care for the soil and a lot fewer sprays.

Our story