A large, year-round Willamette Valley farm market known for fresh apple cider donuts, a bakery, and a fall Harvest Festival — but whether apples here are actually pick-your-own or just sold at the stand couldn't be confirmed, so treat this as a farm-market visit rather than a guaranteed u-pick stop.
Bauman’s Farm & Garden is a large, year-round family farm market near Salem, and the record documents it well as a bakery-and-market destination — fresh apple cider donuts, a garden center, and a fall Harvest Festival with a pumpkin patch. What the record can’t confirm, despite genuine effort, is whether apples here are actually pick-your-own. Some general descriptions elsewhere call this a u-pick Honeycrisp destination, but that claim couldn’t be verified directly, so this record deliberately leaves the u_pick field unknown rather than repeating something unconfirmed as fact.
This is worth explaining clearly rather than glossing over: the farm’s own website, baumanfarms.com, kept redirecting during research and wouldn’t load for direct verification. In its place, a Travel Salem directory page describing Bauman’s was used instead, and that page confirmed the bakery and its apple cider donuts but said nothing about whether apples are picked by visitors or simply sold at the market stand. Multiple general web descriptions elsewhere describe Honeycrisp u-pick at this farm, but repeating that here without direct confirmation would risk stating something as fact that hasn’t actually been verified — so the record leaves it open instead. If picking your own apples is the specific reason you’re considering Bauman’s, call ahead (503-792-3524) and ask directly before making the trip.
The one apple-related detail that is solidly confirmed is the bakery’s fresh apple cider donuts, stated directly on the Travel Salem page describing the farm. That’s a real, specific offering worth knowing about even if the u-pick question stays open — a Bauman’s visit built around the bakery and market stand, rather than picking apples yourself, is a trip this record can support with confidence.
Beyond the apple question, the record’s activities list paints Bauman’s as a substantial, multi-purpose destination: a bakery, a pumpkin patch, a Harvest Festival, and a garden center. That’s a different kind of operation from the smaller, single-focus u-pick orchards elsewhere in this dataset — Bauman’s reads more like a year-round farm-market business with a seasonal fall event layered on top, rather than a picking-focused orchard that happens to also sell baked goods.
The record lists Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm — notably, no weekend hours are confirmed. That’s an unusual gap for a farm market, since weekend hours (often extended ones) are common during harvest season at similar operations. Given that this hours information came from a third-party directory rather than the farm’s own site, it’s worth confirming weekend availability directly before planning a Saturday or Sunday visit.
The address on file is 12989 Howell Prairie Rd NE, Gervais, OR 97026, in Marion County, near Salem. The listed coordinates are an approximate estimate for that address rather than an individually geocoded point.
Bauman’s Farm & Garden is a well-documented bakery and farm-market stop with confirmed apple cider donuts, a Harvest Festival, and a garden center — but this record is honest that it could not confirm whether apples are actually pick-your-own here. If a genuine u-pick apple experience is the point of your trip, call 503-792-3524 and ask directly; if a cider donut and a Harvest Festival stop is enough, this record supports that visit with real confidence.
Not stated with specific 2026 dates. No firm apple-related dates were confirmed; the record notes a fall Harvest Festival and pumpkin patch as the general seasonal draw.
You're specifically counting on picking your own apples — that detail is unconfirmed here, and it's possible apples are only sold at the market stand rather than picked by visitors.
Located in Gervais, near Salem in the Willamette Valley, a different regional cluster from the Hood River Fruit Loop or Portland Metro orchards.
It's genuinely unconfirmed. A directory page describing Bauman's confirmed a bakery selling fresh apple cider donuts but didn't state whether apples are u-pick; some general web descriptions mention Honeycrisp u-pick here, but that couldn't be verified directly, so u_pick is left unknown in this record rather than assumed.
Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm, per the record — no weekend hours were confirmed, which is worth double-checking given that farm markets often have different weekend hours during harvest season.
Yes — a directory page describing Bauman's directly confirmed the bakery sells 'fresh apple cider donuts,' one of the more clearly stated specifics in this record.
The record lists a bakery, a pumpkin patch, a Harvest Festival, and a garden center — a broad, year-round farm-market operation rather than a single-crop orchard.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
No — this orchard sells pre-picked apples from its own trees rather than u-pick.
12989 Howell Prairie Rd NE, Gervais, OR 97026, in Marion County. It is one of 2 orchards we track in Willamette Valley.
baumanfarms.com
Checked September 2026.