Apples
Door Creek Orchard currently has 91 bearing varieties of apples, modern and heirloom, which ripen from July through November. We have even more varieties on young trees not yet of bearing age. In years where we have significant limb/tree die-back (usually due to age), we will also have apple wood available for smoking/grilling.
We know that the methods we use to grow food impact the environment of our entire community. Thus, we are committed to raising healthful, fine-tasting fruit with a minimum amount of input. To read more about our growing practices, please see our page here.
The list below is our comprehensive list, ordered alphabetically. Our apples ripen at very different times. For a list organized by approximate ripening order, please click here. For what is available now, please see our What's Ripe page.
Door Creek Orchard Apple Varieties
1. Almata
2. Ashmead’s Kernel
4. Belle de Boskoop
5. Black Gilliflower (Sheepnose)*
6. Black Oxford
7. Blue Pearmain
8. Blushing Golden
9. Braeburn
10. Calville Blanc D’Hiver
11. Chenango Strawberry*
12. Chestnut Crab
13. Claygate Pearmain
14. Connell Red
15. Cortland
16. Cox’s Orange Pippin
17. Crimson Crisp
18. Criterion
19. Daybreak Fuji
20. Duchess of Odenburg
21. Earliblaze
22. Elstar
23. Empire
24. Esopus Spitzenburg
25. Firecracker Crab
26. Fortune
27. Foxwhelp (Fauxwhelp)
28. Gala
29. Ginger Gold
30. Golden Delicious
31. Golden Russet
32. Goldrush
33. Granny Smith
34. Gravenstein*
35. Grimes Golden
36. Haralson
37. Hidden Rose (Aerlies Redflesh)
38. Holstein
39. Honeycrisp
40. Hudson’s Golden Gem *
41. Idared
42. Jeffris
43. Jonafree
44. Jonagold
45. Jonamac
46. Kandil Sinap
47. Karmijn de Sonnaville
48. King David
49. Kingston Black
50. Knobbed Russet
51. Lady
52. Lamb Abbey Pearmain
53. Liberty
54. Lodi
55. Lubsk Queen
56. Macoun
57. Margil
58. McIntosh
59. Melrose
60. Mother
61. Mutsu (Crispin)
62. Northern Spy
63. Northwestern Greening
64. Opalescent
65. Paula Red
66. Pink Pearl
67. Pitmaston Pineapple
68. Pixie Crunch
69. Pound Sweet
70. Prairie Spy
71. Pristine
72. Red Astrachan
73. Red Delicious
74. Ribston Pippin
75. Roxbury Russet
76. Rubinette
77. Sansa
78. Sinta
79. Snow (Fameuse)
80. Sops of Wine
81. Spartan
82. Spigold
83. Tolman Sweet*
84. Tompkins County King
85. Twenty Ounce
86. Viking
87. Virgil
88. Wealthy
89. Westfield Seek-No-Further
90. Whitney Crab
91. WineCrisp
92. Winesap
93. Winter Banana
94. Wolf River
95. Yellow Newton Pippin
96. Zabargau Reinette
97. Zestar!
*varieties in italics are traditionally available but are currently in renewal and are not producing for 2024
Comprehensive list of our apple varieties by month when ripe (approximate order on a "standard" year):
July/August:
Lodi
Sops of Wine
Red Astrachan
Pristine
Duchess of Oldenburg
Lubsk Queen
Whitney Crab
Almata
Paula Red
Viking
Sansa
Zestar
Earliblaze
Virgil
Ginger Gold
Jeffris
Wealthy
Pink Pearl
Ribston Pippin
Firecracker Crab
September:
Kandil Sinap
Jonamac
Gala
Pixie Crunch
Cox's Orange Pippin
Holstein
Mother
McIntosh
Honeycrisp
Wolf River
Pound Sweet
Cortland
Jonafree
Northwestern Greening
Blue Pearmain
Opalescent
Spigold
Liberty
Macoun
Snow
Spartan
Opalescent
Winter Banana
Daybreak Fuji
Crimson Crisp
October:
Tompkins County King
Sinta
Red Delicious
Empire
Jonagold
Tolman Sweet
Fortune
Westfield Seek-No-Further
Twenty Ounce
Prairie Spy
Ashmead's Kernel
Connell Red
Grimes Golden
Ida Red
Haralson
Roxbury Russet
Golden Russet
Melrose
King David
Criterion
Golden Delicious
Esopus Spitzenburg
Northern Spy
Lady
Foxwhelp
Hidden Rose
Baldwin
Granny Smith
Belle De Boskoop
Black Gilliflower
Blushing Golden
Winter Banana
Calville Blanc d'Hiver
WineCrisp
Winesap
Yellow Newton Pippin
Mutsu
Braeburn
Black Oxford
Goldrush