The only USDA-certified-organic apple orchard in northern Nevada, offering a genuinely narrow but real u-pick window across four varieties on a Saturdays-only schedule — worth planning around that single open day, not around a flexible week.
Agape Organics, doing business as The Apple Basket, is located at 7425 Franktown Rd in Washoe Valley, Washoe County — roughly between Reno and Carson City, at the base of the Sierra Nevada. The research notes describe about 200 dwarf apple trees, planted in 1994, and make a specific, checkable claim: this is the only USDA-certified-organic apple orchard in northern Nevada. That’s a formal certification statement, not a loose description, and it’s what distinguishes this orchard’s identity in the file more than anything else about it.
Four apple varieties are named in the record: Braeburn, Cameo, Gala, and Golden Delicious. U-pick is confirmed, though pre-picked status is left unconfirmed. The phone number on file is 775-885-1988, and no working website was located during research.
Posted hours are Saturdays only, 8am to 5pm. That’s the narrowest weekly schedule of any orchard in this Nevada group, and arguably one of the narrowest in this entire dataset — a single day, with no other confirmed hours at all. The research notes frame the typical seasonal window as mid-September through October, but that’s explicitly a general pattern drawn from secondary sources (Sierra Nevada Geotourism, InSeasonMap, americantowns.com) rather than a confirmed 2026 schedule read from the orchard’s own materials, since no working website could be found.
Practically, this means the usual advice to “check hours before you go” understates the real planning constraint. If a specific Saturday doesn’t work for your schedule, the next opportunity is a full week away, not a different day in the same week. Given the small scale — 200 dwarf trees is a modest planting compared to larger commercial operations — it’s also reasonable to expect that a single Saturday’s supply could be more limited than at a bigger orchard, though the record doesn’t state anything specific about sell-out risk here the way it does for some other small orchards in this dataset.
Dwarf trees and a relatively small footprint (200 trees) suggest an orchard built for manageable, hands-on organic growing rather than large-scale commercial production. Being the only certified-organic apple orchard in northern Nevada, per the record, is a genuine point of distinction if organic certification specifically matters to your choice of where to pick — it’s a claim about formal certification status, not simply “no-spray” or “natural” language that some other small farms in this file use more loosely.
No season_start or season_end date is confirmed, no pricing appears anywhere in the record, and no website exists to check current details directly. The research notes recommend calling 775-885-1988 ahead of a visit specifically because of the orchard’s small scale and single weekly open day — a call here isn’t just good practice, it’s close to necessary given how little margin the schedule leaves for showing up on the wrong day.
Agape Organics/The Apple Basket offers something genuinely distinct in the Nevada group: real USDA organic certification, a small and specific four-variety lineup, and a Sierra-base location between Reno and Carson City. But the tradeoff is a schedule with essentially no flexibility — Saturdays only, roughly mid-September through October by pattern rather than confirmed date — so build your trip around that single day, and call ahead to confirm the orchard is actually picking that week before you drive out.
The record's research notes describe a typical window of mid-September through October, Saturdays only, 8am-5pm — but no confirmed 2026 season_start or season_end date is on file, so treat this as a general pattern.
you can't make a Saturday — the record lists Saturdays as the only open day, with no other weekly hours on file.
The record's research notes specifically call it the only USDA-certified-organic apple orchard in northern Nevada, which is a formal certification claim, not just a marketing description.
Saturdays, 8am to 5pm, per the record — no other days are listed as open.
Braeburn, Cameo, Gala, and Golden Delicious, per the record.
The research notes describe about 200 dwarf trees, planted in 1994, at the base of the Sierra between Reno and Carson City.
The record recommends calling 775-885-1988 ahead of a visit, given the orchard's small scale and single open day per week.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Saturdays. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard.
Braeburn, Cameo, Gala, Golden Delicious — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
7425 Franktown Rd, Washoe Valley, NV 89704, in Washoe County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Washoe Valley.
americantowns.com
Checked September 2026.