butler's orchard

Great place to buy fruit pick your own and just enjoy some sweet strawberries in June. Friendly staff and lot's of nick nacks to buy as well.

nice local produce, best peaches, I like to drop by there on the way home to pick up something for dinner.

Wonderful place for obtaining locally grown produce. Used to love stopping here for fruit, vegies, and whatever else they had in their market that day. Well worth the trip and easy to get to from I-270.

Great place to get home grown apples and vegetables. Come in the fall for the Pumpkin Fest and have a ball picking your own pumpkin and enjoying the other events.

Bought a strawberry rhubarb pie here in October but was disappointed that rhubarb and the bottom pie crust wasn't cooked and baked properly. Too crunchy almost like eating fresh celery and the pie bottom was too doey! I do like the produce and local honey, but cannot say i will go out of my way to visit. Many unique locally and Maryland produced food stuffs.

A bit challenging to get to at night due to the dark country roads , but you will be delighted with the Well lit country market with a large selection of apples, homemade jams and pies. We started out with a hayride throughout the farm a bit on the creepy, cheesy side with some skeletons and scarecrow ghostly displays , nothing too gory or scary.You then end up at your campfire site with a roaring fire to chase away the winter cold, perfect for s'mores. Make sure you bring a flashlight or lamp and a blanket or two. They provide you with a picnic table but bring a few ca chairs f you want to sit by the fire . Best part you can bring in your own food and drinks.

Excellent apples! The honeycrisp is my favorite this season. Not the cheapest around, but the products are quality! The pies are good too! Bring the family and enjoy a day at the orchard!

The staff is great, the location charming, but oy, the prices. You can easily pay over $100 for Christmas tree and they grow their own. That said, they are one of the only places that have trees over 8'.

My 2 year old had a very dangerous experience today at the harvest festival. The site claims it is for ages 2 and up and on a Tuesday Morning I figured it would be a lot of small people out getting pumpkins and enjoying the sunshine. This was not the case. Apparently there were school groups there? Lots of older kids including teenagers and no one was being watched. My daughter got pushed down the slide (on purpose) and kicked in the face by a 15 year old after repeatedly being asked to leave the little one alone. There was no area to escape all these older children. The line for the hay ride was over an hour wait and so we decided to give up in favor of safety. No refund was available and we ended up leaving with a little $.25 pumpkin because we couldn't get up to the field. For $7 this isn't ok. If you are going to host school groups - I think you should do it at a time you aren't also hosting the public - or keep them separated, or at least chaperoned, or at LEAST provide enough hay wagons. The level of safety they provided was unacceptable. Poor planning. There are a lot of really nice pumpkin FARMS in the area. We will go someplace else in the future. Also - there was no food as advertised.

My family and I go to Butler's annually for the past three years for the Fall Festivity and we always have a good time. It's plenty for the kids to do there and the food is pretty good too! The lines were long to get snacks and food. If you are thinking about going I say....GO! & see for yourself.

We really wanted to like Butler's Orchard but after waiting over an hour to drive in and park, we were summarily yelled at for walking to the bathroom instead of moving our car to the bathroom. After selecting and purchasing pumpkins, we then waited in traffic for another 15 minutes to park at the Farmer's Market, and then another 20 minutes in line at the register. Further, while we were able to use an AmEx to pay for our pumpkins, the Farmer's Market insisted that the orchard doesn't take AmEx, which didn't make sense. Really disappointed to drive there and spent almost our whole time waiting.

The market shop here has lots of fresh produce and packaged food items as well as little gifts. The staff are great and the pick your own is a great experience. Although it can get quite crowded and busy they seem well equipped to handle all of the people.

Great 11 bucks spending. Hay ride to the pumpkin patch, slides, face painting, pony riding and mazes, big and small. Food available and even ATMs to offer cash withdrawal. Visit the store too, aka the market. Great falloween stuff. Delicious apples, pumpkins, pies and other funny stuff. You can spend the whole day at Butler's.

A very good place to pick from a variety of fruit, depending on the season. Well-equipped to handle large crowds with an enthusiastic and knowledgeable staff. But call in advance to find out about the availability of the fruit for picking. Unfortunately, I arrived yesterday (third Sunday in September) and the apple trees had already been picked over. Fortunately, right down the road, the Waters Orchard was open with a good supply ready for foraging.(They just opened three years ago and have become an excellent alternative to Butler's with four acres of a variety of types and a welcoming owner and his family. Comparable prices.) Butler's will continue to draw pickers from Montgomery County and Washington, DC because of their leadership in the "pick and travel" business. Just call in advance!

It was Saturday morning and I had no set plans on where to spend the day. I started my "research" and stumbled upon Butler's Orchard website. Found out that it was their first day of strawberry picking season. I knew what I was going to do that Saturday :-)It's about 45 minutes drive for me. Me and my wife reached there at around 1:00 PM. We headed to their store first. The store had good selection of jams, jellies, fruit butters, preserves, salsas (most of them are locally made). We bought apple cider donuts, red apple salsa and pumpkin butter. We then headed to the "main" attraction (strawberry picking). Its about 1-2 minutes slow drive from the store. Bought a flat box for 1$, hoped on the tractor, and we were taken to the strawberry fields. One of their employees guided us on which row to stay on. We were then busy for next 30-35 minutes or so picking strawberries. I have picked apples as well, but this is more fun than that. It was bright, sunny, about 73 F but breezy too, so we were pretty comfortable. They had a water dispenser too right next to the field, which would certainly help during hotter days. Once we thought we had enough strawberries, we stood in line for the tractor ride to take us back to the parking area. We paid for the strawberries (I think it was about 10$), made another stop at their store, and were pretty happy on how we spent last couple of hours there :-). The staff is really nice and makes one feel welcome. I am ready to go back for picking blueberries in late June. If you are going with kids, you can easily spend 3 hours here.Depending on the weather and season:wear full sleevesApply sunscreen / insect repellentWear hatCarry a water bottle