Young Family Farm

Our take

What the record actually confirms

Young Family Farm is located at 260 West Main Road in Little Compton, Newport County, in Rhode Island’s East Bay region, with a phone number of 401.635.0110. Hours run Wednesday through Saturday 9:30am-5pm, Sunday 9:30am-4pm, with Monday available by appointment and Tuesday closed entirely. Both u-pick and pre-picked apples are offered, though the u-pick access specifically requires booking a paid time slot online rather than walking in. Beyond apples, the farm runs u-pick strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, and flowers on a rotating seasonal calendar, and offers online booking as a listed feature.

Reservations, not walk-ins — a real structural difference

This is the single most important operational fact in the record: unlike every other Rhode Island orchard researched in this project, Young Family Farm requires visitors to book and pay for a specific time slot online before showing up, rather than allowing casual walk-in picking. That’s a meaningfully different visit model — closer to an appointment than a drop-in farm stop — and it changes how a visitor should plan. Where a farm like Barden Family Orchard in North Scituate or Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown can be visited on a whim during posted hours, Young Family Farm specifically requires advance planning through its booking system.

The booking widget showed no openings when checked

Adding to the uncertainty, the record notes that when the booking page was checked, it displayed “Nothing to book right now.” That could simply reflect normal pre-season timing — slots not yet released for the year — rather than the orchard being closed or fully booked, but the record is honest that this couldn’t be distinguished from the outside. A visitor should check the booking page again close to their planned trip date, since availability is likely to change as the season approaches, rather than assuming the absence of open slots reflects a permanent problem.

A small, 5-acre operation

At 5 acres, this is one of the smaller orchards researched among the Rhode Island listings — a notable contrast to the acreage claims at larger operations elsewhere in this research, and consistent with a farm that manages capacity through reservations rather than open access. A smaller orchard paired with a reservation system suggests Young Family Farm is deliberately controlling how many visitors are picking at once, which could mean a less crowded, more attentive experience for those who do get a slot.

A rotating multi-crop calendar

Beyond apples, the farm confirms u-pick strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, and flowers, describing this as a “rotating seasonal calendar.” That framing suggests different crops become available at different points in the year, similar in spirit to the multi-crop calendars at Sweet Berry Farm in Middletown or Barden Family Orchard in North Scituate, though Young Family Farm’s booking requirement makes advance planning more essential here than at either of those.

What’s still missing

No apple varieties are named anywhere in the record, and no pricing beyond the general note that booking is “paid” is confirmed — the actual cost per slot or per pound isn’t stated. No 2026-specific season-start or season-end date is confirmed; the “late August-early October” window is described as a recurring general pattern rather than a dated announcement.

Bottom line

Young Family Farm’s reservation-only model sets it apart from every other Rhode Island orchard in this research, and that’s the single most important thing to plan around — check the booking page close to your intended visit date rather than assuming walk-in access will work. Beyond that structural difference, the record leaves real gaps around apple varieties and pricing, so a call to 401.635.0110 alongside checking the online booking system is the practical way to plan a visit here.