A 28-plus-variety orchard with real national food-press attention for its cider donuts, but there's an unresolved town discrepancy — some sources call it Monkton, VT, while the farm's own site lists a Hinesburg address — worth double-checking before treating either as final.
Yates Family Orchard is listed at 1074 Davis Road in Hinesburg, in Chittenden County’s Champlain Valley region of Vermont, with a phone number of 802-373-7437 and an email contact confirmed. The farm grows more than 28 apple varieties, with eight named directly: McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Cortland, Liberty, Empire, Northern Spy, Golden Russet, and Haralson — a list that includes several less-common, heirloom-adjacent picks (Golden Russet and Haralson in particular) alongside the standard New England staples. Cider donuts are confirmed, and the farm has drawn national food-press attention specifically for them, per the research notes. Yoga classes and live music round out the on-site programming, alongside a creemee stand.
Golden Russet and Haralson stand out among the eight named varieties as less commonly cited apples in this research batch — most orchards researched across all four states stick to a shorter list of standard names (McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Cortland, Gala). Their presence here, alongside more typical varieties like Empire and Northern Spy, suggests Yates Family Orchard has built a genuinely broad and somewhat specialized apple program, consistent with the farm’s overall claim of more than 28 total varieties.
This record includes an unusually direct flag: the farm is described in prior research as being located in Monkton, VT, but its own official website lists an address in neighboring Hinesburg, VT. Rather than silently picking one town or the other, the record preserves this discrepancy and recommends it be verified before treating either location as settled. Monkton and Hinesburg are adjacent Vermont towns, so it’s plausible the farm sits near enough to the town line that different sources describe it differently — but that’s a reasonable guess, not a confirmed explanation, and a visitor using GPS navigation should rely on the specific street address (1074 Davis Road) rather than the town name alone.
“Pick Your Own apples begin late August 2026” is a genuine, year-stamped statement directly from the farm’s site — one of the more clearly dated openings in this research, alongside Averill Farm and Sunrise Orchards. It doesn’t give an exact calendar date within “late August,” but it’s more specific and confidently dated than many other orchards’ opening statements in this batch, which often lack the year entirely.
The research notes specifically mention that Yates Family Orchard has drawn national food-press attention for its cider donuts — a distinctive claim among the many orchards in this research that simply confirm cider donuts are available without any indication of outside recognition. That’s worth flagging as a genuine point of differentiation, though the record doesn’t name the specific publication or outlet responsible for that coverage.
No PYO pricing is confirmed, and no exact calendar date within “late August 2026” is available. The town discrepancy remains unresolved.
Yates Family Orchard offers a genuinely wide, somewhat specialized variety list and cider donuts with real outside recognition, plus a confirmed late-August 2026 opening window. The unresolved Monkton-versus-Hinesburg location discrepancy is the practical issue to sort out — use the specific street address (1074 Davis Road, Hinesburg, VT) or call 802-373-7437 to confirm before setting out.
Late August 2026 onward, per the farm's own explicit statement that 'Pick Your Own apples begin late August 2026' — though no specific calendar date within that window is given.
you need a fully resolved address before setting out — there's an unresolved discrepancy between a Monkton, VT description found elsewhere and the Hinesburg, VT address on the farm's own site.
More than 28 varieties total, with eight named specifically: McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Cortland, Liberty, Empire, Northern Spy, Golden Russet, and Haralson.
The farm's own site states 'Pick Your Own apples begin late August 2026' — an explicit 2026 reference, though without a specific calendar date.
There's a discrepancy: prior search results describe this as a Monkton, VT orchard, but the address on the official site is 1074 Davis Road, Hinesburg, VT. These are neighboring towns, and the discrepancy is unresolved in the record — worth double-checking before relying on either town as final.
Yes, per the record's tags — a creemee stand is confirmed.
Yoga classes and live music, per the record.
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.
Yes — it's a pick-your-own orchard, with pre-picked apples at the farm stand too.
McIntosh, Honeycrisp, Cortland, Liberty, Empire, Northern Spy, Golden Russet, Haralson — note that what's actually ready to pick changes week to week through the season.
1074 Davis Road, Hinesburg, VT 05461, in Chittenden County. It is one of 4 orchards we track in Champlain Valley.
We track 4 orchards in Champlain Valley, 4 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 1 of the 4 orchards we track in Champlain Valley had. Treat any date you see elsewhere as last year's until the orchard confirms it.
There are 2 other orchards we track in Chittenden County. All Champlain Valley orchards →
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Checked September 2026.