Primarily a honey producer with a working apple orchard on the same property — a real, operating farm, but its own website is upfront that picking-season specifics aren't posted online, so the apple side is less documented than the honey side.
Hays Honey & Apple Farm sits at 400 Esperanza Rd in Bosque Farms, in the Rio Grande Valley south of Albuquerque, Valencia County. The record is clear about what this farm is primarily known for: raw honey, beeswax candles, and hive products, sold alongside a working apple orchard on the same property. Posted hours are Tuesday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm, and both u-pick and pre-picked apples are confirmed as available.
The phone number on file is 505-869-2369, and the website is hayshoneynm.com. That site was reachable during research, which puts this record in a slightly better position than orchards where no website could be found at all — but reachable doesn’t mean fully informative, and that distinction matters here.
The record’s source note is specific about a real limitation: hayshoneynm.com describes the farm generally as a “commercial bee operation and productive apple orchard,” but it doesn’t post a 2026 picking schedule, apple varieties, or prices. The site itself, per the record, says to call the farm for those details. That’s a meaningfully different situation from an orchard whose website simply couldn’t be found or wouldn’t load — here, the site exists and was read, but it’s honest on its own terms about not carrying the specifics a visitor would want before driving out.
That’s why season_start, season_end, apple_varieties, and pricing all remain null in this record. It’s not that research came up empty; it’s that the farm’s own primary source points visitors toward a phone call rather than a published schedule.
Multiple family-outing guides, per the research notes, list Hays Honey & Apple Farm alongside Costanza Apple Orchard and Manzano Mountain Retreat as one of the Rio Grande Valley’s fall apple stops. But the farm’s own site frames its identity around the honey operation first. If you’re building a day around apple picking specifically, it’s worth going in with the expectation that this may be a smaller or more secondary part of what the farm does, rather than its main draw — while the honey and hive products may be the more developed side of a visit.
None of this means the orchard isn’t real or worth visiting. The record confirms it as a genuine, operating apple orchard with both u-pick and pre-picked options. It simply means the publicly available information skews toward the honey business, and the apple specifics you’d want — what’s ripe, what it costs, whether this week is a good week to come — are things you’ll need to ask about directly rather than find online.
Given the farm’s own site directs callers to ask for details, 505-869-2369 is genuinely the most useful piece of information in this record for anyone planning an apple-picking visit here. A quick call before you drive out would answer the questions this record can’t: which varieties are currently ready, what a visit costs, and whether this week’s picking is any good.
Hays Honey & Apple Farm is a real, operating Rio Grande Valley farm combining honey production with an apple orchard, confirmed open Tuesday through Saturday. But the apple side of the business is less documented publicly than the honey side, by the farm’s own site’s admission — so treat this as a farm worth calling ahead about rather than one you can plan a specific apple-picking trip around from published information alone.
Not stated in the record. No season_start, season_end, or apple variety information was found; the farm's own site directs visitors to call for details.
you're looking primarily for apple-specific details like varieties or pricing — the record notes the farm's own site describes the orchard only in general terms and directs callers to ask directly.
The record's research notes group Hays Honey & Apple Farm with Costanza Apple Orchard in Belen and Manzano Mountain Retreat in Torreon as part of the area's fall apple stops, for anyone planning multiple New Mexico orchard visits in a day.
Primarily a honey producer, per the record — raw honey, beeswax candles, and hive products are described as the retail focus, with a working apple orchard on the same property.
Both, per the record.
Not stated in the record — no variety list was found.
Tuesday through Saturday, 9am to 5pm, per the record.
No — the record notes hayshoneynm.com describes the farm generally as a 'commercial bee operation and productive apple orchard' but doesn't post a 2026 picking schedule, varieties, or prices, and says to call the farm for details.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Tue-Sat. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard, with pre-picked apples at the farm stand too.
400 Esperanza Rd, Bosque Farms, NM 87068, in Valencia County. It is one of 1 orchards we track in Rio Grande Valley (Bosque Farms).
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hayshoneynm.com
Checked September 2026.