Thank you to everyone who took the time to vote for the best Oregon apple orchard as part of our Readers Choice Awards . Here are the winners.
No. 3: Home Orchard Education Center
Located on Clackamas Community College’s Oregon City campus, the nonprofit Home Orchard Education Center is not a U-pick farm, but it does offer some prime picnic spots. “In addition to growing fresh fruit in a peaceful setting,” one reader said, HOEC provides educational and volunteer opportunities for people to learn about how to care for fruit trees and contribute to a healthy, local food system. HOEC has a variety of unique apple species unseen at many orchards.”
Inskeep Drive, Oregon City; 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Tuesday and Saturday; homeorchardeducationcenter.org
No. 2: Kiyokawa Family Orchards
One of