Fall festival returns to Apple Castle

Staff report

NEW WILMINGTON, PA.

Apple Castle farm and market, 277 Pa. Route 18, will have its annual Fall Harvest Festival and Craft Fair on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The family festival will feature more than 70 crafters showcasing homemade wares, bag-your-own apples, free tractor rides through the apple orchards and pumpkin field, pick-your-own pumpkins and apples, live entertainment, free kids’ crafts and straw-bale mountain, apple doughnuts and cider, pumpkins and fall decorations, fall produce, a clown, caramel apples, kettle corn and more.

Admission and parking are free.

A new addition to the festival will be a food drive in conjunction with the Greater Pittsburgh Food Bank. For every pound of dry goods donated during the festival, Apple Castle will donate a pound of fresh, homegrown apples.

Apple Castle, a sixth-generation farm owned and operated by the Johnston family, grows more than 50 varieties of apples, along with peaches, nectarines, blueberries, raspberries, sweet corn, plums, cherries, asparagus, rhubarb, winter squash and pumpkins. It has been in operation for 150 years.

For more information about the festival and craft fair, email info@applecastle.com.