Idalou Harvest Co.

Our take

A property with three names

Idalou Harvest Co. occupies 12206 E Highway 62 in Idalou, Lubbock County — part of the South Plains region rather than the Texas Hill Country cluster where most of the state’s apple orchards sit. What makes this record unusual is the paper trail behind the name: the same address has operated as Apple Country Orchards, then as “The Orchard,” and now as Idalou Harvest Co. That rebrand timeline isn’t a guess — it’s confirmed by a 2024 KLBK/EverythingLubbock.com news item covering the property’s “First Annual Apple Fest” under its current name. If you’ve seen this place referenced under an older name in a Facebook group or a years-old blog post, that’s very likely the same physical orchard.

The current basics were pulled directly from idalouharvest.com on September 3, 2026: hours run Monday through Saturday from 10am to 5pm, with shorter Sunday hours from 10am to 4pm. The phone number on file, 806-801-0133, is the one listed on the current site — worth noting because an older number, 806-892-2961, along with an email address (crawfordorchards@outlook.com), is still floating around attached to the earlier branding in older listings. If you’re cross-referencing this orchard against an older source, don’t be surprised to see different contact details; they belong to the same place at a different point in its history.

The organic claim and the scale behind it

The research notes carry a striking historical claim: Idalou Harvest Co.’s predecessor was billed as Texas’s only certified-organic apple orchard, and separately as the only commercial apple orchard in Lubbock County, with roughly 6,000 apple trees planted among a much larger mixed-fruit operation. That’s a specific, checkable-sounding pair of claims rather than vague marketing language, and it helps explain why this orchard stands out as a South Plains apple destination in a state where nearly every other entry in this dataset sits in the Hill Country. But it’s important to be precise about what this record can and can’t vouch for: this is how the property was historically described, under its prior name, not a claim independently verified against current USDA organic certification records or reconfirmed on the current website.

What’s confirmed versus what’s carried over

Here’s where honesty about sourcing matters most. The apple variety list — Delicious, Ozark Gold, Granny Smith, Fuji, and Pink Lady — along with the hayride and petting zoo activities, all trace back to descriptions of the orchard under its earlier “Apple Country Orchards” identity, drawn from the pickyourown.org network and lonestartravelguide.com. A 2026-dated pickyourown.org apple-festivals summary does describe hayrides taking visitors into the orchard to pick, which is a good sign the practice has continued. But the source note is direct about the limitation here: none of this was confirmed as still accurate on the current idalouharvest.com site, which the record describes as thin — mostly placeholder text — and which does not itself list varieties or spell out u-pick terms.

Practically, that means u_pick shows as true and pre_picked also shows as true in this record, but you should treat the “true” on u-pick as historically grounded rather than freshly confirmed for this season. The Apple Butter/Apple Fest event, most recently reported for August 2024, is a real and specific event worth asking about when you call — just don’t assume a 2026 date without confirming it, since no dated 2026 announcement turned up during this research pass.

Bottom line for planning

Idalou Harvest Co. is a genuinely distinctive stop — a South Plains apple orchard with organic roots and a documented rebrand history, offering hayride-style u-pick and an annual apple festival, at least historically. The confirmed hours (Mon-Sat 10am-5pm, Sun 10am-4pm) and current phone number give you a reliable way to plan a visit. But the specifics that make it interesting — the variety list, the u-pick format, the organic framing — all carry over from an earlier era of the business rather than being freshly confirmed on today’s website, so a call to 806-801-0133 to check current apple availability and event dates is the honest next step before driving out.