Andy's Orchard — Attraction in Morgan Hill

Went at 9.30 am on the sunday 18th June and we had booking for 4 people. The orchard opens at 10 am and there were already people lined up. We requestes for car parking inside orchard as my wife has walking disability they said they can help if there is sticker . However they offered her chair to sit till orchard opens and agreed to drop her back. Aeiing my wife's condition not one many of their staff/ volunteer came forward to help particularly a family of Marcus the young boy who drove the tractor with trailer which can seat 10 people disabled. The tour starts with tasting if the fruit and this time of the year it was cherry. They had 35 varities of cherry and it wa wonderfully organised with name board sticker on each of them and you are given a tissue and paper plate for discarding the seeds and they have kept a small basket to discord the seeds as you taste . It was really a wonderful experience After tasting my wife and I with my daughter and grand daughter and couple of other families toolk the tractor and Marcus the boy took us to the orchard and explained the different cherries and took us around and he was very patient and was excellent. The cheerries were sweet some were sour and sweet and most of them were excellent. There was peacock in the orchard . There were 2 rest rooms On the tour you are given buckets to collect the fruit and you weigh them and pay and take it home . The cherry was given at USD 4.50 per LBS. The fruit tasting and picking was excellent experience and special kudos to all the staff and specially to Marcus and his family for helping us and said that having come all the way from India we should go to the orchard understanding my...

Do orchards still exist in the The Valley of Heart's Delight? Though every orchard from the South Bay to the North Bay have all but disappeared there are still a few if you know where to look.

Andy's Orchard is probably the best stone fruit orchard in the Bay Area. The host various events throughout the year were you can taste seasonal fresh and dried fruit. During the summer months they hold regular events were you can pick fruit from their orchard and purchase what you pick.

They have a variety of unique and heirloom variety stone fruits during the summer months. They will even provide you with a calendar of when to expect certain variety of fruits during the season. They also have other fruits during year including figs, cherries, and persimmons. They will also have a small selection of seasonal vegetables. They have a robust section of "ugly fruit" that taste perfectly fine aside from being ugly or bruised. The ugly fruit is usually priced super cheap at 1$/lb.

In my weekly visits to Andy's I maybe had one fruit that wasn't up to par! While it is usually hit or miss when buying fruit at a conventional store you can expect perfectly ripe and in season fruit at Andy's. You can find delicious eats year round at Andy's due to the fact that they sell a large selection of dried fruits that they dry at the orchard. You can find dried stone fruits year round and some specialty items seasonally. You can get sugar plums and dried persimmons in the winter months and through the new year.

If you're looking for one of the best orchards in the Bay Area Andy's may be your best bet at seeing what once...

I was extremely disappointed in this adventure! I took my husband to Andy’s Orchard for Father’s Day, we drove about 3 hours to get there, spent the night in a hotel the night before so we didn’t have to get up so early to make it there by 10am. I didn’t realize we could get there anytime. I read the previous reviews several months ago, it sounded so fun so I purchased tickets for the tour. We stood in line for quite a long time before going on a walking tour through the cherry orchards. They had us all take buckets so we could pick cherries. I assumed this was included in the price of the tour. Nobody told us we then have to pay an inflated price for the cherries. Our tour guide was so soft spoken you had to be right next to him in order to hear what he was saying, so we missed out on a lot of the information given. We had to pay $3.75 per pound for cherries we picked ourselves. Our bill came to almost $50! (On the way there we saw a fruit stand advertising cherries for $1.99 lb.). It was fun, and we really enjoyed ourselves, but, way...