Wild Apple Farms

05/27/2026

So many creatures 🐿️🐣🌸

05/27/2026

We've got our very own Fairy Door at the Farm Shop, and will be participating in the Dexter Fairy Door Trail and Midsummer's Celebration!

Mossy, magical, and earthy. Come see what the farm and woodland fairies have been up to overnight! All things flowery, herbal, wild and old fashioned (of course!)

There will be iced bottles of Lemonade and Spring Water, with Midsummer Fairy Nibbles on July 17th all day at the shop as well! ☀✨✨✨

05/17/2026

05/16/2026

Sold out two hours into Market!

I love baking bread and watching others enjoy it. 🙂💛

05/14/2026

Crabapples, apples, pies, and honeybees in America.

When the English colonists arrived in "North America," they found only crab apples. Crab apple trees were the only native apples to the area.

By the 1640s orchards were much more common, and the importation of honeybees (initially in 1622 from England to Virginia) helped with pollination and thus crop output. These fruits were called melt-in-the-mouth or winter banana.

Later on in 1737, Robert Prince established the first commercial apple tree nursery called William Prince Nursery in Flushing, New York. The British who occupied Long Island during the Revolutionary War considered the nursery so important that they put an armed guard around it for protection. The nursery survived under four generations of the Prince family until just after the Civil War.

And for those foodies, here's a very short, if slightly nebulous, recipe from "American Cookery" (1796) by Amelia Simmons.

"Stew and strain the apples, to every three pints, grate the peal of a fresh lemon, add cinnamon, mace, rose-water and sugar to your taste—and bake in paste No. 3. Every species of fruit such as peas, plums, raspberries, black berries may be only sweetned, without spices—and bake in paste No. 3."

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day! These two little beauties were born in the middle of the night!

05/10/2026

Happy Mother’s Day! These two little beauties were born in the middle of the night!

05/09/2026

Instant Mother's Day Gift - Done:
A Loaf of Crusty Healthy Sourdough Bread
A Honeybear of Raw Local Honey
A package of Dexter Granola
A Pound of Local All Natural Ground Beef
An Earthy Chunk of Artisan Soap
A Bouqet of Lilacs

Stop by the Chelsea Farmers Market today where we will have all the above available. 8-1 Downtown Chelsea at Palmer Commons/Main Street.

05/06/2026

Chewy fresh sourdough loaves, artisan soaps, granola, and more!
Come see us at the Chelsea Farmers Market tomorrow, Wednesday, May 6th! From 10-3 🌸