Christmas at Hinton's Orchard

If you're getting ready for Christmas, but need a unique gift, let us help! We offer a wide variety of custom made gift baskets that are perfect for the holidays. We can customize a basket to your tastes and budget. We can include any number of items from our wide selection of preserves, fruit butters, salsas, sorghum, apple pie filling and more. We can also create baskets that include Penn's Country ham, bacon, or sausage, Green River Cattle Company beef, or Kenny's Farmhouse cheeses. Or, if you prefer a traditional fresh fruit basket, we can help there as well. We also have a variety of candles, Christmas ornaments, cookbooks, and more that would make great gift ideas. We're open Tuesday thru Saturday 9am-5pm, so stop by, drop us an email at jeremy@hintonsorchard.com, or give us a call at 270-325-3854 for more information.

Upcoming Events

It's a busy time of year around here right now and we've been seeing lots of you coming out for a visit. Thanks! We really appreciate that. I wanted to take a minute to put up some information related to the next couple of weekends. This weekend, October 4 & 5, we'll be set up at Lincoln Days Festival in downtown Hodgenville. If you're coming to the festival be sure and stop by for a visit. Joanna will be taking care of the booth in town, and Jeremy will be keeping things going at the farm. We'll be open as usual from 9am - 6pm Saturday. On Sunday, we'll be open from 1-6 pm. We'll have hayrides to the pumpkin patch, the corn maze, our play areas, and our bouncy castle. We'll also have hamburgers & hot dogs, caramel apples & apple turnovers fresh from the kitchen. We have a great selection of pumpkins and other fall items, ready for you to decorate your home or business. Make us your one stop for all you fall items!

Next Saturday, October 11th will be our 5th Annual Pumpkinfest here at the farm. We'll have live music, pumpkin painting and the folks from Green River Cattle Company will be grilling ribeye sandwiches, hamburgers, beef brats, and hot dogs. That's in addition to our normal weekend activities. A highlight of this year festival will be free tethered hot air balloon rides from 5-7 pm sponsored in part by LaRue County Farm Bureau Insurance Agency. We're hoping for a big crowd at the end of the day to enjoy this special treat, so plan to come early, have a big day, and then finish it off with a balloon ride. Pumpkinfest is a great day for us and for you, so plan on bringing the whole family out for a great time at Hinton's Orchard.

1st Annual Apple Festival

This Saturday, September 13th will be our First Annual Apple Festival. We hope you'll come and join us for some great food and fun for your whole family! We're going to be grilling hot dogs and hamburgers from the Green River Cattle Company. There will also be plenty of apple treats like fresh made caramel apples, apple turnovers and more. We're getting a fresh batch of apple cider just in time for the weekend as well. We're ready for fall with our corn maze, although the dry weather has hurt it :-( and our kids play areas. A few of our pumpkins are starting to turn orange in the field so the hayrides will stop at the patch if you're ready for a pumpkin! We're also getting mums, pansies and some other fall flowers just in time for the weekend.

We're really looking forward to kicking off a great fall season this weekend and hope you'll come be a part of Hinton's Orchard 1st Annual Apple Festival!

Jeremy

Sweet Corn Festival - Cancelled

We're sorry to announce that due to several conflicts that we can't seem to resolve, we won't be having a sweet corn festival this year. We're making plans for the Apple & Pumpkin Festivals and hope you'll join us for one or both of those! We'll be open this weekend as normal, but without the extras that we had planned. We apologize for any inconvenience and hope you'll come for a visit soon!

Jeremy

Peach-a-palooza

We're excited to host our first summer festival this coming Saturday, July 12th. Peach-a-palooza will feature two of our favorite things, good food and good music. We'll have Green River Cattle Company hamburgers, hot dogs, and fresh sweet corn on the grill, apple & peach turnovers, fresh peaches, and ice cream! For your entertainment, you'll enjoy all your southern rock and country favorites from a great local band, "Barefoot Sally". The fun will start at 5:00 pm and run until 9:00 pm. Admission will be only $10 per carload so cram it full! We hope you can join us for the first ever Peach-a-palooza!

4th of July Weekend!!

Hard to believe that the 4th of July weekend is already here! We're stocked and ready for your visit to the farm this weekend. We have June apples, local blueberries, some wonderful Georgia peaches, Kentucky tomatoes & sweet corn, watermelons, cantelopes, squash & zucchini. We also have our canned food products and gift items. Come see us this weekend for all your picnic needs! Hope to see you soon.

Jeremy

June Apples

We started picking our June apples or Lodis on Thursday 6/26. We'll have them as long as they last, but they will go quick. Give us a call or come for a visit to get these great early apples. They're a favorite for applesauce or fried pies.

Jeremy

Festivals

One of our favorite events for the last several years has been our PumpkinFest every October. This year will be our 5th Annual PumpkinFest, and we've had so much fun with that one that we've added some more. We're still working on details to make each one unique, but they will all feature good food, music and fun for you and your family. We've create three more festivals that focus on other crops that are ready at different times of the year. Mark all these dates and watch for future posts to get more details as each one approaches!

July 12th Peach-a-palooza This festival will be centered around one of our favorite summer crops, the peach. We're thinking of starting later in the day to avoid the heat that is always a part of July. We'll be giving you more details as we get closer, but plan to join us for some summer fun at Peach-a-palooza.

August 9th Sweet Corn Festival We're going to celebrate the end of summer with a festival surrounding this summer time favorite. Be sure and join us for music, great food, and much more! We'll keep you posted as we get closer to this one as well

September 13th Hinton's Orchard Apple Festival Our main crop is apples, so we thought it only appropriate to start our fall season with a festival to celebrate the apple. We'll have several different apples for you to try, and maybe you'll find a new favorite! There will be music, food, and fun for the family. All our favorite fall activities like the corn maze, straw pile, and the corn bin will be ready for your kids, plus we're adding a soybean maze for smaller kids and since our baby calves we such a hit last year, we're going to have more farm animals to enjoy this fall. With any luck, we'll have some pumpkins ready by then too!

October 11th 5th Annual Hinton's Orchard PumpkinFest! This festival has grown every year, and we don't plan to slow down now! We're looking forward to an even bigger crop of pumpkins for you to choose from so keep this date on your calendar. You don't want to miss this one! There will be music, food, games, hayrides, and pumpkins of all shapes and sizes!

Keep your eyes on our blog for more updates on all these festivals and other fun events at Hinton's Orchard as the season progresses!

Jeremy

Welcome!!

Welcome to our blog! We're going to use this as a source of information to keep you informed about what we have available and what's coming soon!! Check back often to see what's going on at Hinton's Orchard & Farm Market all season. Post any comments or questions that you have, especially if you had a good experience with us and visit our website at www.hintonsorchard.com for more information about the farm, directions, etc. Thanks for visiting!

Jeremy

June Apples

Our June apples are a treat that lots of people look forward to every year! They make great fried apples and fried apple pies! We expect to start picking them about the 25th of June, so check back for a posting when we start picking! They won't last long, so once we start, be ready for a trip to the country!

Jeremy

Peaches

There's nothing like a ripe, fresh picked peach! You know the kind that you bite into and have juice running down to your elbow! Sounds good, huh? We expect to start picking our peaches around July 4th so make plans to come for a visit! Check back for a posting when we start to pick! We look forward to seeing you!

Jeremy