Keller's Farmstand

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Keller’s Farmstand sits at 2500 Johnson Road in Oswego, Kendall County, with a phone number of 630-219-8194 and the orchard’s apple page at kellersfarmstand.com/fall/apples. Unusually for this file, the record carries a confirmed opening date: the orchard’s own site states it “will reopen on Saturday, August 15, 2026,” which the source note treats as a direct, self-reported 2026 date rather than an inferred one.

Hours are also unusually specific: weekdays run 10am to 6pm, weekends 9am to 5pm, with a reduced 9am-to-3pm schedule on Labor Day, and last entry cut off 30 minutes before closing each day.

Pricing by bag size, not by the pound or by admission

Keller’s prices u-pick apples in three fixed bag sizes rather than a flat entry fee or a per-pound rate: $11 for a quarter peck (about 3 lbs), $22 for a half peck, and $44 for a full peck. That’s worth noting because it scales linearly — a full peck costs exactly four times a quarter peck — so there’s no built-in bulk discount for buying more. Compared to orchards elsewhere in this file that charge a flat field-admission fee on top of per-bag apple costs, or price straight by the pound, this is its own distinct structure and worth knowing before you decide how much to pick.

Five named varieties among an advertised 30+

The record names five varieties specifically pulled from the orchard’s own page: Honeycrisp, Gala, Fuji, Pink Lady, and EverCrisp. That’s a useful spread across the ripening calendar — Gala tends to come in earlier in the season, Honeycrisp and Fuji in the middle-to-late stretch, and Pink Lady and EverCrisp toward the later end — though the record doesn’t confirm which varieties are ready on which specific dates. The listing tags reference “30+ Varieties” more broadly, so the five named ones are a sample of a larger roster rather than the complete list.

No stated end date, and why that matters

Unlike orchards with a confirmed season_end date, Keller’s site describes apples as available “while supplies last” rather than committing to a closing date. That’s a meaningfully different kind of open-endedness than “we haven’t posted it yet” — it suggests the season genuinely runs until the crop is picked out, which could end earlier or later than a typical late-October close depending on how the harvest goes. Anyone planning a visit later in the fall should treat this as a real reason to call ahead and confirm apples are still available before making the trip.

What’s not confirmed: cider, donuts, activities

The record is silent on a cider mill, cider donuts, and family activities like a corn maze or petting zoo — fields that plenty of other Kane and Kendall County orchards in this file confirm. The research notes read this as a deliberate signal rather than an oversight: Keller’s appears to be a picking-focused operation rather than a broader agritainment destination. If a corn maze or animal encounters are part of what you’re looking for in an orchard visit, this record doesn’t support planning around that here.

A useful gap-filler for the southwest suburbs

The research notes flag Keller’s as one of the closer u-pick options to the Naperville and Aurora suburbs, filling a geographic gap in that part of the Chicago collar counties relative to the denser cluster of orchards further north and west in Kane and McHenry counties. That’s a location-based observation from the record rather than a claim about quality, but it’s a genuinely useful planning detail for anyone starting from that part of the metro area.

Bottom line for planning

Keller’s Farmstand is one of the more confidently dated and priced entries in this file — a real 2026 opening date, clear bag-tier pricing, and five named varieties spanning the season. The tradeoff is that it reads as an apples-only stop: no confirmed cider, donuts, or extra activities, and no fixed closing date, so a supplies-permitting mindset (and a call to 630-219-8194 late in the season) is the honest way to plan around it.