Welcome to High Springs Orchard!
We are a eco-friendly and pesticide free fruit orchard.
In 1996, we bought a 28 acres farm and started with a few persimmon trees. After a decade, it turns into hundreds of persimmon, peach, nectarine, chestnut, apple and Asian pear trees. We also have an assorted variety of Muscadine grape vines and blueberry patches.
You can pick the above fruits during harvest seasons. Visit our "U-Pick Calendar" harvest schedule and get more information about our fruits.
We have recently started keeping honey bees. They are doing a great job of pollination. We hope to harvest 100% of local honey.
L & E Farms
L & E Farms is a "Fresh From Florida" member of the Florida Department of Agriculture.
L & E Farms started with 200 grafted trees in 1992, adding 100 more in 1993. Saving the best nuts each year we slowly expanded over the next several years to over 2500 trees today. Each new tree was planted from the biggest seed nut from our own trees. This approach seems to represent the best in vitality over exclusively grown grafted trees over the long term especially in this area of the south. This means a much slower approach towards nut production, but volume has increased dramatically over the last few years to over 7000 pounds in 2008. With hundreds of trees still growing to maturity, we expect to see in excess of 12,000 pounds in just a few years. Nuts are hand picked, washed and then machine sorted. All nuts are stored in an on-site cooler. This 60 acre farm is located in Campbellton, Florida, about 60 miles west of Tallahassee. This farm is the largest chestnut orchard on the panhandle of Florida.
Mockingbird Farm, between Newberry and Trenton, is owned by Judy Martino. In the two acres of chestnut trees, miniature donkey Carlo is her hardworking farmhand (or, “farm-hoof”).