andy's orchard

This is a fun place to go, especially when peaches are ripe and ready. They have several varieties and you can pick them yourself so it makes for a great family outing! Also have a gift shop. Can't wait till next summer.

I drove from Thousand Trials RV Park due to positive reviews, but was VERY disappointed in the number of fresh orchard products that were available . It appeared that 2/3 of the items were dried fruits and not what I was looking for.The store is small with a few baskets or bins of fresh cherries, peaches, nectarines & apricots.Most of the space is filled with dried fruits, of which I have no interest. I did buy some fresh apricots, peaches and cherries (at $7 lb) from them. However, they are not organic and quite pricy.The tour with samples may be more worthwhile, but I won't return.On the way home, I drove thru the downtown area and it was charming with its well- preserved"old town" feel from decades ago. Worth a visit if you are in the area.Morgan Hill is a paradox with its historic areas and over-the-top, billionaire mansions in this "silicon valley" suburb.

A cute country store offers gifts and fruit with locally grown vegetables in season. Really a gem of a place in our backyard with so many stone fruit options.

Book a tour if you can or attend one of Andy's fabulous tasting fairs. Be sure to check the holiday event schedule and load up on the best jams, dried fruit and chocolate covered dried fruits. Perfect gifts for the hard-to-shop-for!

The fruit at Andy's Orchard is unbelievably good. Blenheim apricots, various fantastic hybrids, and just the very best nectarines ever. Try a tasting tour or just shop there for an incredible treat.

The most fun is going to the annual set of orchard tours and fruit tastings each year. You can eat your fill while touring the orchards, pick some to take home, or buy in the store. The incredible variety of cut fruit for tasting, with information about each sample, make these outings unique opportunities to find out what you like.

Once the fruit is in season this is a great place for good local vegetables and fruit.

Call Andy's for a schedule of his tasting tours of cherries and stone fruits. Andy Mariani has spent decades planting and caring for heirloom cherries and other fruits that are rarely grown any more.

You try his fruits and you will never going back to grocery store bought friuts

Andy's Orchard, while open all year long selling fresh fruits and vegetables of the season, dried fruits, fruit candy and delicous preserves made from his fruits, Andy's comes alive in the summer with their Fruit Tasting and Orchard and harvest walks. For a small fee, participants can taste the many, MANY varities of cherries, apricots, peaches and nectarines. Then you are escorted to the orchards in search of the perfect fruit to pick yourself paying for what you pick. Fruit never tastes as good as when it is picked ripe from the tree.Another new surprise in 2011 was the introduction of Fruitful Jams made almost exclusively from Andy's fruit. Some of the surprise preserve offerings are from the rarest of the orchard, perhaps a single tree, of a single variety that produces the sweetest, most unusual apricot or peach or nectarine.

Tours only happen a few times a year so when they do, it's real busy at the orchard. Good for adults, children over 5, but not stroller bound children. It's something to try out once and say you've done it. Wear a hat and sneakers, you'll get all dusty and dirty out in the orchard.