Autumn Harvest Orchard, LLC is a Certified Naturally Grown orchard, vegetable farm and apiary. We have over 400 different Apple, Pear, Chestnut and Nectarine trees which are harvested from the months of July to October and over 300 blueberry plants. Best of all, our fruits, blueberries, vegetables, chestnuts, honey, herbs and flowers are all Certified Naturally Grown without herbicides or pesticides.
Like many of today’s small-scale farms, Joanne did not grow up on a farm but when she visited them as a kid she knew one day she would own an orchard. Growing up in a large family in Massachusetts, the family garden was vital and implementing compressed gardening maximized the small plot. After graduating college and joining the military for over 25 years she arrived in Connecticut. She continued her passion of agriculture by making her vision a reality and purchasing the land that is now called Autumn Harvest Orchards, LLC. It was just an abandoned cow pasture that took many years to develop into an orchard. Her mission was to provide a healthy legacy for the next generation and agriculture was a means to that end.
Now, after many years of cultivation and hard work, she continues to work the land to bring her customer’s fresh, certified naturally grown, non-GMO produce you would be proud to serve at your dinner table or restaurant. Joanne is always committed to producing a better looking naturally grown apples by finding natural practices to control pest and diseases.
Autumn Harvest Orchards, LLC employs Integrated Pest Management, a system whereby farmers familiarize themselves with the life cycles of pests and control them with the least possible hazard to the environment. There is constant research to control or trap the latest invasive and destructive fruit pests like the spotted lanternfly, brownmarmorated stink bug and the Spotted Wing Drosophila. All are new invasive pest that have come into the country and are taking a toll on orchards and wineries.
In addition, today’s farmer needs to constantly keep up with the F.D.A. requirements on Good Agricultural Practices and latest food handling and packaging requirements. At Autumn Harvest Orchard, LOLC we will continue to grow, fertilize, spray, seed and manage pest without toxic pesticides and herbicides. In addition, all of our fertilizers, pesticides, oils, amendments and fertilizers are labeled and approved by the Organic Review Materials Institute (ORMI).
So we hope you will visit us at the Farmer’s Market or join our CSA and “Taste the Difference” of local and naturally grown produce.