Norman's Orchard — Attraction in Frazer Township

Best pick your own we've been to in the Pittsburgh area for the fruits they have (cherries sweet & tart (my favorite), pears & apples, apparently blueberries now (haven't been for this), grapes that have always been sold out before we got there).

This is not a place with a store with tons of products not grown on-site (they do sell pre-picked fruit of the same types you can pick there). This is a SMALL business. The owners seem like genuinely decent people (even advised us our front yard sour cherry tree should be fruiting by now and we should get another one for pollination), the kind of people my grandparents would have thought were just normal people. The instructions are mostly about how to use a ladder safely (yes, in this age of insane litigation, they actually still let you use ladders!). They aren't insanely obsessed with no one eating at all in the field.

They remembered me, too (perhaps because they let me pick over the sour cherries the first time we went even after the season had officially passed - also a point in their favor!) I almost hesitate to leave this review because this place is so much better, by my lights anyway, than any of the other pick your own places in the area I've been to. But...

Went to pick apples today 9-20-2023. While we were there picking apples and left a bucket on the ground to come back to it. Once I returned the bucket was gone and the owner had picked it up and was driving it around on a tractor. I asked him if he had my bucket with gloves and he said yes and pointed to a full bucket of rotten apples on top of my gloves. I picked out the apples he put into the bucket and walked up the hill to pay for them. While speaking to his wife he drives up and was yelling at me about emptying the rotten apples out on the ground. I guess he wanted me to carry the apples up to the counter that were not mine. His wife said sorry he is not mad at you he is mad at other children who were throwing apples. We ended up buying 3 apples because they were mostly not good at all and we left. I recommend going somewhere else and not dealing with an old...

We were at this farm today-June 16 and the owner of the farm got almost physical with visitors who pulled the branches down to pick berries. He did warn them once not to pull them but it was clear they didn’t understand him. And even the first warning was rude. The second time he approached them he yelled at them snapping branches out of their hands, kicked them out but made them pay for cherries they picked. They were not rude or obnoxious, they just didn’t understand his first warning. And the reason for their pulling on branches was to reach the berries as there were no ladders available. My kids got scared and we left the farm. This is not an appropriate way to handle visitors and behavior one...