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Welcome to Pleasant View Orchard and Bakery

We offer over 15 different varieties of apples as well as u-pick raspberries beginning around Labor Day. We are also growing blueberries, cherries, pears, and plums. Call for availability on these fruits @ 715-927-two zero five zero.

Our retail shop offers delicious treats from our bakery (available on weekends or special order during the week). Bakery items include pies, breads, cookies, muffins, cinnatwists, and pie pockets. Also available is our homemade maple syrup, pre-picked apples, caramel apples, and dried apples.

 

Event Calendar

Applefest
Each year on the last Saturday of September we hold our annual applefest, which is an old-fashioned family-oriented festival. Events include live music, free horse-drawn wagon rides, face painting for the kids, grilled food, and our own apple cider.

Orchard Tours
Group tours are available during the apple season.  Contact Carol to make a reservation @ 715-927-two four five zero.

For Hal in the Orchard call  715-927-two zero five zero   

For Carol in the Bakery call  715-927-two four five zero

What's new
3/01/11:    Hal is in the midst of pruning our apple trees.  This must be done every year, and takes Hal about 40 hours to prune the whole orchard.  In addition to the apple trees, Hal will be pruning the blueberry bushes, and the grapes.

3/15/11:  We are in the middle of making maple syrup.  This year we put out about 450 taps.  In a normal year, 1 tap will produce about 1 quart of syrup of the course of the season.

4/3/11:  Hal is grafting Wealthy apple scions onto Bud 9 rootstocks.  We discovered last year that the Wealthy apples (plus Cortland) make excellent pies. 

4/9/2011:  Carol won 1st, 2nd, and 3rd prizes for her pies at the Iron Mountain Pie & Pasty Presevation event in the Home, Sport, & Garden show.

4/20/2011:  Our syrup season is complete.  We bottled about 70 gallons in various containers, all available in our shop.

4/25/2011:  We are now selling apple and cherry trees:  Honeycrisp, Zestar, Gingergold, Macintosh, and Snowsweet apples; Jubilem, Danube, Balaton, and Montmorency cherries.

5/28/2011:  We are in full bloom.  This past week we escaped a serious threat from low temperatures.  Although the temperature dipped to 29, it did not do any serious damage.

6/15/2011:  We are in the middle of thinning our crop.  Pollination was great, so the crop is large and strong.