Specialties
Variety is the spice of life. Enjoy hundreds of different flavors from our farm (including over 300 varieties of apples!) and you'll soon rethink your world of food.
There will never be a bland moment at your table: sweet, tart, juicy, crunchy, crisp, aromatic, rich, scrumdiddlyumptious, slurp, smile!
History
Established in 1992.
North Star Orchard is a 20-acre orchard and vegetable farm located in Cochranville, Pennsylvania. Our produce is all sold directly to the people who eat it at local farmers' markets and though our CSA offerings, which are available at pickup locations throughout Southeastern PA and Delaware.
We enjoy very much our interaction with customers at the markets and with members of our CSA. It gives us a lot of satisfaction to have a real connection with the people who are eating the food that we grow! We encourage people to buy locally as much as possible, to help ensure the sustainabiltiy of our local food system.
Meet the Business Owner: Lisa and Ike K.
With literally thousands of wonderfully diverse varieties available, we prefer to grow fruit other than those commonly grown commercially. Since you can go to just about any store or market and buy Red Delicious, Granny Smith, and the like, we decided we wouldn't grow ANY of them (not even Honeycrisp!), and instead focus our efforts on some of the other amazing flavors there are to be had.
Farmer Ike said years ago that someday he'd like to operate a producing apple "museum", and that's basically now what we have, with over 350 varieties of apples alone growing in our orchard.
We have planted a lot of disease-resistant varieties in our quest to reduce pesticide usage. We have also planted uncommon and rare old varieties for their excellent flavors and disease tolerance, and there are also some varieties we developed ourselves in the orchard, like Monolith and Ludicrisp apples, and Erin and Margaret peaches.
