Owenby's Apple House & Orchard

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Owenby’s Apple House & Orchard is located at 3807 Chimney Rock Road in Hendersonville. This record’s variety list is genuinely notable — ten named apples: Honeycrisp, Gold Rush, Gala, Shenshu, Mutsu, York, Summer Rambo, Golden Delicious, Pink Lady, and Granny Smith. That’s a heirloom-heavy mix, with Shenshu and Summer Rambo standing out as less commonly seen names alongside the more familiar Honeycrisp and Gala. Per research notes, the orchard grows more than 40 apple varieties total, with roughly half available for u-pick — meaning the ten named here likely represent a partial, though useful, slice of what’s actually available. Cider donuts are explicitly not offered, and confirmed activities include nature trails.

A real limitation: nothing here is orchard-confirmed

The most important thing to understand about this record is its sourcing. Every fact — the address, the variety list, the phone number, the 90-acre farm size, the roughly-60-years-of-family-operation claim — comes from third-party aggregators (nctripping.com and a separate Hendersonville-area travel guide), not from the orchard’s own website. No working official site could be found during research. That distinction matters: while third-party travel guides are a reasonable source for general orientation, they can go stale, and there’s no way to cross-check current 2026 hours, pricing, or even whether the orchard is open this season without a direct call.

A long-running family operation, by third-party account

Per those third-party sources, the family has farmed this 90-acre property for roughly 60 years, which would make it one of the longer-established operations in this Henderson County batch if accurate. The heirloom-forward variety list — particularly Shenshu and Summer Rambo, apples that don’t show up in the named lists of most other orchards researched in this batch — supports a picture of a farm with deep, specific horticultural knowledge, though again, this comes through third-party description rather than the orchard speaking for itself.

What roughly half u-pick means in practice

Research notes specify that roughly half of the more than 40 varieties grown are available for u-pick, which implies the other half may be grown for other purposes — cider, wholesale, or simply not opened to picking. Since this record doesn’t say which of the ten named varieties fall into the u-pick half versus the non-u-pick half, anyone hoping to pick a specific apple like Shenshu or Summer Rambo should confirm by phone rather than assume it’s available for hands-on picking.

What’s missing

No hours, days-open schedule, or 2026 season dates are available anywhere in the sources checked. No pricing is given either. Given the total absence of an official website, this record should be treated as a starting point for a phone call rather than a fully verified listing.

Bottom line

Owenby’s Apple House & Orchard offers one of the more heirloom-distinctive variety lists in this Henderson County batch, backed by a long farming history per third-party accounts. But with no official website found and every detail sourced secondhand, this is one of the records in this batch most in need of direct phone verification (828-685-9917) — for hours, pricing, current season status, and which specific varieties are actually open to u-pick — before treating it as a confirmed destination.