Early Season Hours: Wednesday-Saturday: 10-5pm | Sundays: 1-5pm
Opening Weekend of the Eastern Randolph Farmers Market
Saturday, May 4th from 9am-2pm | Local vendors, educational events, & more
If you love supporting local then you don’t want to miss our opening weekend of Eastern Randolph Farmers Market featuring a variety of local vendors, our interactive & educational Honeybee Day activities, Parade of Poppies adventures and lots of freshly prepared Orchard treats! Check out a few of the stellar activities we have planned and join us as we kickoff our 2024 market season:
🐠Catch & Release Fishing | 9-5pm ($2/per person to fish)
🏃🏻♀️Kiddie Korral Playground | 9-5pm
💐 Parade of Poppies Weekend Adventure featuring Dooley, the Highland Cow | 10-12pm (Register now)
🐝Honeybee Day | 10-1pm: Honey & Honeybee education, honey sampling, honey bee coloring activities, & storytime @ 11am under the pines
🥙Lunch by Black Lantern | 10-3pm (Order at Granny's Goodies or the Apple Barn): Ham & Cheese on a Pretzel Roll, Chicken Salad Croissant, & Turkey Wrap
🍓Granny’s Goodies Open with Strawberry Donuts & Strawberry Patch Float | 10-3pm
Weekly vendor line-up: We will update our vendor list each week on Thursdays.
Seasonal Donut Schedule
Our freshly cooked, hot and delicious donuts are a fan favorite around the Orchard and during the summer months, we theme them out to match the fruit harvest! While apple cider will always steal our hearts, check out the other flavors coming to Granny’s Goodies this summer. During May-August, we will only have donuts available on Saturdays from 10-3pm, but come September-December, we’ll have them available every Saturday (10-4pm) and Sunday (1-4:30pm).
May: Strawberry Donuts (However, on Memorial Day Weekend, we will be switching to Apple Cider for our 20th anniversary)
June: Blueberry Donuts
July: Peach Donuts
August - December: Apple Cider Donuts
Upcoming Events @ The Orchard
may 4th: eastern randolph farmers market season kick off & honey bee day
may weekends: Parade of poppies weekend adventure*
may 10th, 17th, 23rd: Homeschool day: poppy patch excursion*
may 11th & 12th: mother’s day casual waterfront picnics*
may 25th: Party @ The Pond: musicfest & family fun day (Free event)
Thank you to our sponsors:
Orchard Champion: Liberty Leader Newspaper
Harvest Hero: Chick-Fil-A, Old Mountain Furniture & Gifts, Realty World Carolina Properties, Stallion Air Inc
Orchard Friend: James River Equipment