The thinnest-sourced record in this Henderson County batch — a year-round produce stand selling apples alongside figs, strawberries, and homemade ice cream, but with no confirmed website, phone number, hours, or even a clear answer on whether you can pick your own apples.
McConnell Farms is located at 177 Old Dana Road in Hendersonville, per a listing on visitncfarms.com. Beyond the address, very little in this record is directly confirmed. There’s no verified phone number, no hours, no days-open schedule, and no season start or end date. Pre-picked apples are noted as available, and cider donuts are confirmed, but the u-pick status is genuinely unclear — the record doesn’t assert either way whether visitors can pick their own apples.
No working standalone website could be found for this business during research; the only official presence located was a Facebook page, which is listed here in place of a website since nothing else was available. The record’s tags — “Farm Stand,” “Year-Round,” and “Henderson County” — reflect the year-round produce-stand character described below, rather than adding any new confirmed fact beyond what’s already stated.
What does come through clearly in the research notes is that McConnell Farms markets itself as open year-round, selling a broad mix of produce — figs, strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes — alongside apples, plus homemade ice cream and cider. That’s a genuinely different business model than the seasonal, fall-focused apple orchards that make up most of this Henderson County batch. Third-party write-ups describe the farm as family-owned since the 1940s, suggesting a long-running local operation even without a strong current web presence.
This record carries more open questions than any other orchard researched in this state. There’s no confirmed phone number to call for verification, no working website to check current hours or offerings, and the central question of whether apple picking is actually available here — versus buying pre-picked fruit — remains unresolved. That combination of gaps means anyone considering McConnell Farms as a planned apple-picking destination is working with meaningfully less information than they’d have for almost any other orchard in this research batch.
Given the lack of a confirmed phone number or website, the most reliable next step would be checking the farm’s Facebook page directly for current posts about hours, apple availability, or picking status, or visiting visitncfarms.com to see if a more complete listing exists there. Showing up unannounced, given the total absence of confirmed hours or season dates, carries real risk of the farm being closed or apples not being ready.
Essentially every operational detail beyond the address and general year-round claim: hours, days open, season dates, u-pick status, apple varieties, pricing, and a working phone number or website are all unconfirmed.
McConnell Farms appears to be a genuine, long-running family produce stand that happens to sell apples among a broader mix of fruits and vegetables, open year-round rather than seasonally. But this is, by a clear margin, the least-verified record in this Henderson County batch — no phone, no website, no hours, and no clear u-pick answer — so treat it as a lead worth checking in person or via Facebook rather than a confirmed destination to plan a trip around.
Not stated in the record — no hours, days open, or season dates are available. The farm is described as open year-round rather than seasonally, which is unusual among the orchards in this batch.
you need confirmed hours, u-pick status, or a working website before visiting — none of these could be confirmed for this record, and phone verification is recommended before treating this as a planned destination.
Unclear. This reads as primarily a produce/market stand rather than a confirmed pick-your-own operation, and u-pick status couldn't be confirmed from available sources.
Not stated in the record — no hours or season dates are available.
No phone number could be confirmed from available sources.
No working standalone website was found; the record uses the business's official Facebook page in place of a website.
Figs, strawberries, asparagus, tomatoes, homemade ice cream, and cider, per research notes — a broader produce mix than most other orchards in this batch.
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.
177 Old Dana Road, Hendersonville, NC 28792, in Henderson County. It is one of 11 orchards we track in Hendersonville Fruit Belt.
We track 11 orchards in Hendersonville Fruit Belt, 8 of which let you pick your own apples. The orchard has not published a starting price, so it cannot be compared on cost — call before you budget.
One caveat worth repeating: this orchard had not published its 2026 dates when we last checked, while 3 of the 11 orchards we track in Hendersonville Fruit Belt had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There are 10 other orchards we track in Henderson County. All Hendersonville Fruit Belt orchards →
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facebook.com · visitncfarms.com
Checked September 2026.