All Indiana! Apples, Pumpkins and Flowers Down On The Farm

Three Ways to Take Advantage of Hoosier Harvest Season

While life in the Circle City can occasionally seem removed from Indiana’s farming roots, a visit to one of central Indiana’s many farms and farmstands is a great way to revel in the bounty of the Midwest!  All these places are a short drive from downtown Indianapolis, easily reachable in an afternoon.  (Just be sure to avoid the I-65 split downtown on your way out.)

Pick some apples

Indiana and the Midwest provide a bountiful apple harvest.  Here are a few places to fill a bag or bushel and enjoy an early fall day outdoors in an orchard:

Stuckey Farm Orchard and Cider Mill – Sheridan, IN (includes a farm stand and store)

Tuttle Orchards – Greenfield, IN (also has a pumpkin patch, hay rides and other activities)

Anderson Orchard – Mooresville, IN (also has raspberries, pumpkin patch)

Smith Farms – Frankfort, IN (also has pumpkins, peaches while in season)

Find a pumpkin patch

The pumpkin harvest starts in late September, and Halloween is around the corner.  A trip to a pumpkin patch – many of which have other activities like hayrides, orchards, and games – is a time-honored fall tradition. Here are some local pumpkin patches:

Spencer Farms – Noblesville, IN (also has you-pick raspberries through the end of the season, a farm stand, hay rides, and other activities)

Anderson Orchard – Mooresville, IN (also has raspberries, apples)

Piney Acres Farm – Fortville, IN (opens September 22, also famous for their Christmas tree farm)

Tuttle Orchards – Greenfield, IN (also has an apple orchard, hay rides and other activities)

Bring home some local flowers

It’s not just edible produce that abounds at the end of the season in Indiana – famous Indiana mums, hardy and colorful, are in season right now, as are full-grown sunflowers.  Pick up some plants for your home or some garden mums for your back yard (many can withstand the winter and flourish the next year!)

Spencer Farms – Noblesville, IN (also has you-pick raspberries through the end of the season, pumpkins in late September, and other activities)

Carter’s Strawberries and Mums – Frankfort, IN

Tuttle Orchards – Greenfield, IN (sunflower field, also has a pumpkin patch, hay rides and other activities)