Crossnore Heritage Orchard

  • Welcome All
  • Opening Day 2010
  • Blooming in April
  • Yellow Transparent
  • box 1
    Summer Rambo
  • Mowing Day
  • McIntosh
  • Memory of Gleason Harmon
  • Wolf River
  • Apple Stack Cake
  • Rambo
  • American Mother
  • School days
  • Virginia Beauty
  • Golden Russet
  • Snowing in January
  • Pruning Time

Welcome, Friends and Visitors to Crossnore Heritage Orchard

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Welcome to the new Crossnore Heritage Orchard website. While this website is still under construction it is Ready to Use. Visit the links to the < Left, or if you are on a phone click on the three lines, to see much more; the Orchard Map, List of Heirloom Apple Varieties, full Apple Descriptions, and other interesting pages.

This website is also designed to be available on your phones as you visit and walk through the orchard. Locate the trees by our Orchard Map or by their number and start learning about each. These apple tree varieties are 100 to 350 years old. They were grown by our Nation’s Founding Fathers and by Grandfathers ever since. Click our Mission Statement on the left for more information.

How This Began

In 2009 the Crossnore Communities for Children contacted the Avery County Cooperative Extension Center for help establishing a community orchard in the town of Crossnore. Planting historic heirloom apples became the mission. It is designed to be a living museum of the apple history of Crossnore and all of Avery County. It has become a collection of some of America’s greatest historic apple varieties.

We currently have 28 heirloom apple varieties on 43 trees, most of which are common in Avery County. We estimate it produces 40-100 bushels of apples annually. The. apples are intended for free public collection, hands on education, and the celebration of apple history. We have these apple trees in a “Community Park” atmosphere. If you are visiting in person today, stick around and learn more about these historic apple varieties, using your cell phones!

The Crossnore Communities for Children, the Avery County Extension Center, and Volunteers continue to cultivate and maintain this orchard. The Town of Crossnore is a supporter of the Orchard.  Click < Acknowledgements < to see all the folks who have made this Orchard happen. We will be starting an “Orchard Donation Program” in the coming weeks to help support this new work.

Thanks for visiting this website. Please leave questions, comments, and even likes. We need your thoughts and reviews to help us improve this “work in progress”. To leave a message of any type email us at Crossnoreheritageorchard@gmail.com

Thank You!