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At a Glance

We are currently Closed for the Season | Opening April, 2025

Welcome. The Jackson family has offered good food and great memories to our visitors for over 50 years now. Come See Us! mid-April to mid-November. In-season fruits | vegetables | spring plants | & more!

Concessions | Closed for the Season

Our Concession Stand is currently closed. It opens around July 4th with lots of those apple & peach lovin’ goodies that have folks coming back again and again.

Apple & Peach Varieties List

When Can I Get My Favorite Variety?

Now, we can’t control the weather but here are the approximate dates for this season.

Click here to download pdf: 2024 JO Varieties List

FAQs

Are you open during the week? What are your hours? What does it cost to get it? May I bring my pet? Here are answers to some of our most frequently asked questions.

Playground | Closed

The Jackson’s Orchard playground is closed for the season. In-season it is open during our regular business hours to ages 4-21 at a cost of $3 for the entire day. No charge for ages 3 & under (as well as accompanying adults).

Birthday Parties

We will proudly host your birthday party (weather permitting) anytime we are open – April through October. However special party arrangements need to be made during our busy Pumpkin Festival weekends.

2024 Activities

Celebrate America – July 4, 5 & 6
Peach Festival – July 19 & 20
Pick Your Own Flowers (Zinnias) – July TBD
Pick Your Own Flowers (Sunflowers) – August TBD
Apple Festival – Labor Day Weekend
Pumpkin Festival – Beginning Sat, Sept 28 & Sun, Sept 29 then every weekend through the end of Oct. Oct 5 & 6, Oct 12 & 13, Oct 19 & 20 and Oct 26 & 27
Closing for the 2024 Season – Sat., Nov 23, 2024
*** dates are subject to change due to weather & other unforeseen circumstances

Group Outings

Host your next group (church, work, social) outing down on the farm . . . Jackson’s Orchard! In-season, we will work with you to design an event that creates wonderful memories for your group.

School & Group Tours

Our tours are designed to inform and educate all ages. We welcome senior groups, preschool classes, home-school groups and both public and private school children. In-season tours can only be booked by phone 270.781.5303. The school tour calendar fills up quickly so book your school tour today!

FREE Fruit Tree Pruning Workshop

Join us for this free annual workshop given by Jackson’s Orchard owner, Bill Jackson | each year on the first Saturday in March given right here at Jackson’s Orchard. Dress for the outdoor weather. The 2024 seminar was held on Saturday, March 2 at 9am. Pruning is an important practice[…]

March 1966, The Beginning of Jackson’s Orchard

In January of 1966 Bill Jackson, the FMC Agricultural Chemicals salesman, was making a call on Ed Hudgens, the 89 year-old orchard owner; when Hudgens said something along these lines “instead of selling me chemicals why don’t you just buy this farm ’cause I’m way past needing to retire.” That sparked[…]