An Upper Valley orchard growing on the same land since 1965, better known regionally for its hard-cider brand Farnum Hill Ciders than for pick-your-own — a genuinely unusual heirloom and dedicated cider-apple lineup, with free tastings of everything they grow or press.
Poverty Lane Orchards has grown apples on the same land in Lebanon, Grafton County, New Hampshire, since 1965. Today, the operation is better known regionally for its hard-cider brand, Farnum Hill Ciders, than for its pick-your-own side — a distinction worth understanding before you visit. The orchard’s operating website now redirects to farnumhillciders.com, which lists the address and grower history but doesn’t itself restate pick-your-own explicitly.
What sets Poverty Lane apart is the apple lineup itself. Beyond the three named eating apples — McIntosh, Cortland, and Macoun — third-party sources describe a broader collection of heirloom and dedicated cider varieties, apples selected specifically for cider-making rather than for eating out of hand. That’s a genuinely different focus from most orchards in this dataset, which center their variety lists on familiar supermarket names.
This is the record’s central nuance. Multiple third-party sources — Vital Communities, the NH Fruit Growers Association, Yelp, and PickYourOwn.farm — describe an active pick-your-own operation with “an amazing variety of heirloom apples” and even a pick-your-own raspberry patch. But because the farm’s own operating website now redirects to the Farnum Hill Ciders site, that specific page doesn’t restate pick-your-own directly. The confirmation here rests on consistent third-party description rather than the orchard’s current primary web presence.
A detail worth highlighting: third-party sources describe free tastings of everything the farm grows or presses. For a visitor interested in cider specifically, that’s a meaningful, low-cost way to sample the results of Poverty Lane’s more unusual apple selection before deciding what to buy or pick.
Wednesday through Friday, hours run 9am to 5pm; Saturday and Sunday, 10am to 5pm — a later opening on weekends. No 2026-specific season dates or per-bag/per-pound prices were found in the sources checked.
Given its 1965 roots and heirloom-and-cider focus, Poverty Lane makes for an interesting complement to a broader Upper Valley visit — less about a straightforward apple-picking errand and more about experiencing a farm whose primary identity has shifted toward serious cider production over six decades.
The address is 98 Poverty Lane, Lebanon, NH 03766. The listed coordinates are a Lebanon, NH city-center fallback rather than a geocode of the Poverty Lane address, so treat the map pin as approximate.
Poverty Lane Orchards offers a genuinely different apple experience from most orchards in this dataset — an heirloom and cider-focused lineup with free tastings, confirmed as pick-your-own by consistent third-party sources even though the farm’s current website leans into its Farnum Hill Ciders branding. Call 603-448-1511 for current pricing and picking conditions.
Not stated with 2026-specific dates. Hours are Wednesday-Friday 9am-5pm, Saturday-Sunday 10am-5pm.
You're looking specifically for a standalone orchard-branded website — the current owners' primary online presence lives under the Farnum Hill Ciders cider brand instead.
Third-party sources describe an active pick-your-own operation with 'an amazing variety of heirloom apples' and a pick-your-own raspberry patch, though the orchard's operating website (which now redirects to Farnum Hill Ciders) didn't itself explicitly restate pick-your-own on the page fetched.
McIntosh, Cortland, and Macoun are named, though the farm is described as having a much broader heirloom and dedicated cider-apple lineup beyond these three eating apples.
The current owners are better known regionally for their hard-cider brand, Farnum Hill Ciders, than for the orchard's pick-your-own side, and the operating website now reflects that branding.
Yes, per third-party sources — free tastings of everything the farm grows or presses.
Since 1965, on the same Lebanon land.
2026 dates had not been published when we last checked. In past seasons it has run: Wednesday-Sunday. Check with the orchard before driving out.
Pricing was not published when we last checked.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard.
McIntosh, Cortland, Macoun — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
98 Poverty Lane, Lebanon, NH 03766, in Grafton County. It is one of 2 orchards we track in Upper Valley.
Map pin is set to the town centre. Navigate to the street address above, not the pin.
farnumhillciders.com
Checked September 2026.