A six-generation Shawnee Hills family operation farming roughly 600 acres since 1888 — but this is a farm-store and mobile-fruit-tour business, not a u-pick destination, and apple-specific details are thin in this record.
Flamm Orchards is located at 8760 Old Highway 51 N in Cobden, Union County, in the Shawnee Hills fruit belt of Southern Illinois. The phone number on file is 618-893-4241 and the website is flammorchards.com. The research notes describe a genuinely long family history: six generations farming here since 1888, working roughly 600 acres of apples and peaches. Hours are confirmed as 9am to 6pm daily.
The record marks u_pick as false for Flamm Orchards, based on the site’s own description of its business model. Rather than advertising self-directed picking, the site frames itself around a farm store and what it calls mobile fruit tours — language on the site states “You don’t have to drive to Cobden… We’ll bring them to you,” describing a delivery-style approach to reaching customers rather than requiring an on-site visit to pick fruit. That framing puts Flamm in the same general category as a handful of other Shawnee Hills entries in this file — Southern Illinois orchards with deep roots and real acreage that operate more like working fruit farms with retail and delivery arms than pick-your-own tourist destinations.
This is worth stating directly: while Flamm Orchards grows apples as part of its roughly 600 acres, the marketing on its site is centered heavily on strawberries and peaches. No apple variety list was found. No apple-specific season dates were found — the site referenced “2026 Strawberry & Peach Tour schedules” specifically, which at least confirms 2026 scheduling exists for those two crops, but nothing equivalent turned up for apples in the content checked. No cider mill, cider donuts, or apple-specific activities are confirmed either.
That’s a real content gap rather than an oversight in this research — it appears to reflect how Flamm actually presents itself publicly, with apples as a secondary crop behind its strawberry and peach programs. Anyone specifically planning an apple-focused visit to Flamm should treat this record as a starting point for a phone call rather than a complete picture, since the apple side of the operation may simply not be as heavily marketed online as the rest of the farm.
What this record can speak to with confidence is Flamm’s operating history: an 1888 founding date and six generations of continuous family operation are specific, checkable claims from the research notes, giving real weight to Flamm as an established fixture of the Cobden fruit belt regardless of how apple-focused its current marketing happens to be.
No pricing is given for any product. No apple varieties are named. No cider mill or donuts are confirmed. No activities are listed. Compared to most other entries in this file, Flamm’s record leans almost entirely on its historical pedigree and basic contact and hours information rather than the kind of apple-specific detail that would help plan a picking-focused visit — largely because, as far as this record can tell, picking apples isn’t really what Flamm is set up for.
Flamm Orchards is a long-established, six-generation Shawnee Hills farm with real history and real acreage, but this record can’t confirm meaningful apple-specific details — no varieties, no apple season window, and no u-pick access. If a working farm store and the option of fruit delivered via mobile tours sounds appealing, Flamm may be worth a call to 618-893-4241; if the goal is picking apples specifically, this record doesn’t have enough to support planning that trip with confidence.
Not stated in the record. The site referenced '2026 Strawberry & Peach Tour schedules' but no apple-specific season dates were found. Confirmed daily hours are 9am-6pm.
you want to pick your own apples — the record found no mention of u-pick apple access, and the site's marketing centers on strawberries and peaches rather than apples specifically.
Not confirmed — the record found no mention of u-pick apple access. The site describes a farm-store model with mobile fruit tours, and u_pick is marked false in this record.
Not stated in the record — no variety list was found.
9am to 6pm daily, per the record.
Since 1888, run by the same family across six generations, per the research notes — farming roughly 600 acres of apples and peaches.
The site describes bringing fruit to customers rather than requiring a drive to Cobden, per its own language ('You don't have to drive to Cobden... We'll bring them to you'), though exact tour routes or schedules for apples aren't given in the record.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Daily. 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.
8760 Old Highway 51 N, Cobden, IL 62920, in Union County. It is one of 2 orchards we track in Shawnee Hills / Southern Illinois.
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flammorchards.com
Checked September 2026.