Apples, Apples, Apples!
Did you know there are thousands of apple varieties? We have tried hundreds of them here at Gopher Glen and kept 65 of the top ones for our customers to enjoy. We also grow many other old-fashioned varieties such as Rhode Island Greening, Skinner, Missouri Pippins, three Limbertwigs and other uncommon varieties not mentioned on our list. Experimental trees with eight or ten varieties each, as well as thousands of seedling trees grown from our own crosses, are beginning to produce totally new and never before seen apple varieties. It is all great fun! You never know — on one of your visits you may find yourself being a guinea pig for one of our brand new varieties.
Current Fruit Availability
We have multiple harvests of each apple variety and may run out between harvests. Please call the fruit stand (805) 595-2646 before making the drive for a specific variety. Our apple availability often changes hour by hour!
Projected Apple Availability
Updated 11/25/25
Current Apples:
CLOSED ON THANKSGIVING DAY!
Black Friday sale starts 11/28
Braeburn: First picking! We will have lots as we have just started picking. We get lots of calls waiting on this favorite. They are very nicely dense, sweet, and balanced with a touch of tart. GREAT keeper!
Granny Smith: The fruit is hard, firm and with a light green skin and crisp, juicy flesh. The flavour is tart and acidic. It remains firm when baked, making it a popular cooking apple. Developed in Australia!
Fuji: is an apple cultivar developed by growers at the Tōhoku Research Station of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry in Fujisaki (notice the Fuji name), Aomori, Japan, in 1939. It originated as a cross between two American apple varieties—the Red Delicious and Ralls Janet. Its flavor is sweet and its texture is crisp.
Pink Lady: developed in the 1970s by John Cripps in Western Australia, and is a cross between Golden Delicious and Lady Williams. A nicely balanced sweet and tart apple.
(Actual harvest timing may vary by 2-3 weeks depending on the weather which drives harvest)
Late July/Early August
Gravenstein
Gala
Mid August
Burgundy
Laura red
Ida Red
Mollie’s Delicious
Late August
Tohoku
Empire
Gala
Mutsu
Elstar
Jonathan
Hawaii
Mollie’s Delicious
Early September
Jonathan
Jonadel
Hawaii
Bellflower
Jonagold
Redgold
Mid September
Golden Delicious
Chieftan
Braeburn
Nittany
Criterian
Mohawk
Jonalicious
Late September
Red Delicious
Northern Spy
Russet
Spitzenberg
Caville Blanc
Black Amish
Honey Crisp
Early October
Red Yorking
Turley Winesap
Limbertwig
Stayman Winesap
Fuji
Mid October
Rome Beauty
Heaven Sent
Little Gem
Splendor
Tydeman Red
Newtown Pippin
Late October
Pink Lady
Chesapeake
Granny Smith
Black Twig
Sun Crisp
November and December
Sundowner
Mary’s Unknown
Lady Williams
Arkansas Black