Gross Orchards was super fun and had plenty of apples to pick from. The lady at the register was so…read moresweet and helpful and I really liked how they give you a bag to fill and then they just leave you alone and you get to have a special moment with just your friends and family. I highly recommend!!

Quaint farmers market. Nice place to stop with the kids/family. We just discovered it after the…read moreapple season. Will definitely go back next year.

I bought a bushel of peaches in the middle of August. They were beautiful and absolutely delicious…read more I also bought tomatoes and sweet corn. I'll be back next season!

Love their deli's large salads & sweet dressing. All ingredients are always fresh. They chop the…read moreingredients of your choices. The ingredients are always fresh. They use ingredients from their orchard store. Many products there come from the garden you'll see in front of the store. They are always efficient, & pleasant as they serve you. You may pay cash or with credit card. If you are rushed, phone ahead your order & it will be ready when you arrive. Everyday every salad is made fresh when you order. You may include your choice of side and drink. You have dressing choices but I love their Jamison sweet dressing, made there. While you wait for your order, check out their multiplicity of fresh fruits, veggies, flowers, plants, yard statues, fresh made entrees for your next meal, bagged nuts, candies; an endless array of homemade items! Try it. I know you will be pleased. Barb B

i have been there several times, driving from Forest and…read more Lynchburg, VA. Good place to shop. Got good peaches and corn recently.. Going back soon.

Great produce, great small storefront, and easy to access on RT 29. We use it for watermelon and…read morecantaloupe all summer long. Service is what's excellent.

Love visits to this awesome store. So thankful that you are still open…read moreA large selection of items. I look For longhorn cheese and find it here. Thank you for being the place you have been for years. Love when my family comes In from Maryland we visit the Amish store and your store.

I bought peaches twice from this store. Each time I always wished I had more . I made peach…read morecobbler. I bought brownies too. I loved the blonde brownies a lot. I also bought country ham for seasoning. I made some dynamite black beans with the ham. I am glad I have more left.

We love this place. Great quality fruits and vegetables in store. Also some local products like…read morejams, butters, meats, etc. Great selection of farm seeds. And oh my heart, the plant selection and supplies in the spring, if you want flowers, herbs, vegetable plants, etc. go here! The staff are kind and helpful. I always leave with a smile on my face, and usually looking forward to getting my hands dirty. ***wrong address above, we live in the Ridgeway area.

This is like the farmers' market keeping regular business hours. This is a great place to get…read morelocally grown (local might mean North Carolina) veggies, jams, and jellies. They also have a greenhouse in the spring with a good selection of healthy bedding plants, hanging annuals, herbs, and vegetable plants for the garden. Prices are always reasonable.

We drove two hours there, spent almost two hours enjoying the 80 degree weather in late October and…read moreexploring the orchard, then drove two hours back. The location was beautiful. Keep your camera handy! Pumpkins are large and $0.60/lb. Apples are $20 peck bag and $30 1/2 bushel bag. Picked pink ladies. Also had Arkansas black and gold rush. I suggest long clothes and bug spray...lots of flies, bees, ladybugs, other insects, and burs. Definitely full of nature. Our six year old complained of bug bites often. Adults were bit a few times but no marks or anything. The driveway was one lane leading to some stressful situations with speeders. There wasn't much information available about picking options, locations, etc., when we arrived. When we advised it was our first time and inquired about information, we got a basic 'these are the apple bag sizes and costs, pumpkins are down the road'. Other locations were very welcoming and informative. Who owned the farm. How long it had been there. How they grew their produce and stayed focused on quality and community, etc. But I'm giving them the benefit of the doubt that under normal circumstances, i.e., not in a pandemic, there would be more information, more staff, and possibly other activities. There weren't any apple picking tools, so we couldn't reach many of the best looking apples. We sat on the tailgate and ate our warm donuts. There weren't any tables, chairs or other snacks or food. Not sure if it's picnic friendly. Didn't see an apple washing station. There is a portable sink next to the portable toilets. Other than apples, pumpkins, and the store, there were some bunnies, billy goats, and donkeys with a $0.25 feed dispenser. Our LO always loves feeding the animals. They did not sell bottled water, and the hike up the hill to the pink ladies left us panting, so be sure to bring some! We enjoyed the time we spent simply picking apples and pumpkins, but our six year old asked repeatedly about other things to do.. The other small family farms we visited with hay bales to climb on, corn to play in, apple toss games, pumpkin painting, etc might have spoiled him a little. But he was content for almost two hours with just picking apples and pumpkins and an apple cider slushy. He was so excited he found a big pumpkin that he said it was the best pumpkin patch ever! It's a beautiful location for PYO APPLES AND PUMPKINS, which was hard to find. They also aren't charging any entry fees. If simply PYO is what you seek, you've found it. This may not be the place for a half day/all day family fall outing and picnic (at least not in 2020) but you could add in Skyline Drive or Natural Bridge or other areas activities to make a day of it. IMHO, try everything once, twice if you like it! I can't wait to read your reviews.

I love this place. It's where I pick blueberries and blackberries in the summer, and where I pick…read moreup bushels of already-picked peaches and apples. If you've had any of the blueberry, blackberry, or peach jam, or apple butter or apple sauce or apple cider jelly from me, well, this is where I get the fruit. The folks at the orchard are super helpful, and they have a good memory with regard to their customers and their preferences. And it's a sweet little place, too -- the views while picking fruit are just gorgeous. And the store carries preserves and other items, including fresh-pressed cider which is delicious. I cannot recommend them highly enough. And after you've spent a morning picking berries or picking up bushels of apples, swing by Woodruff's for a piece of pie on the way home. I tend to think of these two places in tandem, they've become that much of a habit for me.

Found some great produce and plants at this roadside farm! Gorgeous lantana, succulents, herbs - a…read morecouple greenhouses full of beautiful flowers and plants! We also gathered some "penny" candies and gifts! The strawberries were plentiful and fresh and ripe! Yum! We bought a bucket full! We also purchased some local honey and a bunch of veggies! We saw jellies, jams, relishes, and meats and dairy products too! They sold some ice cream and even gardening supplies! Stop in and support your local farmers!! The gal at the front desk didn't really know the prices or the names of the products, but she was nice.

Yep this is the real deal we just got some of the best sweet corn so far this season some silver…read moreQueen and some yellow white mix it was fantastic we also got some wonderful homemade strawberry preserves that were out of this world heading back today to get some more preserves and some more sweet corn they also have fresh from the field cantaloupes watermelons and many varieties of vegetables see you there Brian and Fon

I love Aldi. Each location can potentially have items that you don't see at all stores. I didn't…read moreknow the layout of the rows since I don't visit this location often. The produce was fresh. The store was clean. There weren't as many paper products but I was visiting right before an expected storm and that may have been a factor. There was only one register with an employee. All the other registers were self check out. The strip mall had convenient stores nearby - Rack Room Shoes, Michaels & Dick's Sporting Goods.

My wife and I just completed our second trip down to the Spring Grove Farm. We liked it so much…read morethe first time 6 months ago we decided to give them a 2 night stay this time. This place is great, you can spend HOURS just looking through each of their rooms. We have been lucky and been the only people staying there both trips down (damn economy). The Sayers are awesome hosts and give you free reign of the house to explore as you want. The grounds are just beautiful. I highly recommend this place to anyone looking for a quaint B&B in So VA. However do NOT use google maps to get here, print out the directions off of their website! And ask for the blueberry waffles for breakfast!

We visited for one night in the dogwood cottage recently. It was a great cottage. The only…read moreproblem we had was with the smell on the first floor. The smell was like a concentrated version of a camp smell - musty and overbearing. We would not stay in the cottage again, but we would definitely stay in the main hotel. What a place. It wasn't clear where to enter. I went to what I thought was the entrance and the door was locked. I tried at another entrance in the middle and the door was locked. I went around to the northern side and five dogs came up to greet me all barking like they were going to chomp on me. I was starting to get worried about the place. Anyway, they didn't bite, but I didn't like the feeling of whether they would bite me or not while walking in to a side entrance that didn't even look like an entrance and trying to figure out how to check-in. I think the entrance/check-in needs some tightening up because our stay was great. They were very nice people, friendly and all. Great breakfast. Lot's of books. Oh and there is no TV in the dogwood cottage, but I knew that going in and it didn't bother me, but if you're addicted to TV the dogwood cottage is definitely not for you. Lot's of books and we were loaned a collection set of the civil war that was excellent for our evening perusal prior to retiring for the night. I definitely recommend this place and agree that you can't follow Google maps or you will end up somewhere, but not near the hotel. We would visit again, but not staying in that dogwood cottage, which by the way has the original floor they said back when it was a one-story building where they stored corn, husks and all to feed the animals on the farm I think they said. Probably why that smell on the first floor although it was fine on the second floor where the bedroom was, which by the way was very nice. So definitely plan to stay here if you are visiting Appomattox! =)

The Roanoke Valley Sister Cities Sculpture is a secluded square between Church and Kirk St. near…read morethe downtown market square in Roanoke. In warmer months this is a great place to sit on a park bench and watch life or reflect. The sculptures represent Roanoke's Sister Cities in Brazil, Kenya, China, Poland, Korea, Russia and France. Trees offer shade in the summer and a background of birds cheeping all year. It's not enough to drown the sounds of City life, but if you focus you can stop focusing. I like cutting through here on my visits to Roanoke and enjoy the different kinds of people who escape into this square.