Berries bursting with flavor, crisp apples delivering that fresh-picked crunch, and peaches dripping with sun-soaked sweetness, having never seen a shipping crate. While the supermarket works in a pinch, growing season has a way of creating a craving for freshness that has us skipping the produce aisle and heading straight to the source. Just north of Spokane, Green Bluff serves up a smorgasbord of seasonal abundance, which highlights the full spectrum of nature’s bounty across a collection of thoughtfully cultivated, family-run farms. Whether you’re filling a basket, wandering the orchard rows, or sampling something warm from a farm kitchen, these farms are a delicious reminder that growing season is ripe with possibility, offering a rotating menu of everything the region grows best!
High Country Orchard
8518 E Greenbluff Road
509.992.5966
High Country Orchard is one of those places where you can spend an entire day and still feel like you missed something worth coming back for. Spread across 20 acres, this family-run farm shifts with the seasons in a way that keeps visitors coming back year after year. Spring kicks things off with a literal awakening as the barnyard buzzes with life. The farm is home to two playgrounds and a petting zoo where you can say hello to Domino the cow or take a spin on the cow train.
Summer arrives with strawberries and rhubarb in June, then a July Cherry Festival where Bing, Rainier, and pie cherries hang heavy on the branches. A simple rule to remember: the deeper the hue, the sweeter the bite. Late July through September belongs to the Peach Festival with the big, tree-ripened kind perfect for eating fresh or starring in ice creams, cakes and pies. Meanwhile, the U-pick dahlia and flower garden bursts with color until first frost, with stems just a dollar each.
Come fall, the Harvest Festival takes over with pumpkin donuts, caramel apples, and a pumpkin patch opening the second weekend of September. Weekend visitors also find craft fairs, live music, and more apple varieties than you can count, including Jonathans, Empires, Honeycrisps, Macintoshes, and a dozen others. Between all that picking, there’s a farm-fresh cafe, a gift shop full of unique finds, and even a full-service wedding venue if you’re looking to say “I do” surrounded by orchards.
Cherry Hill Orchard & Market
18207 N Sands Road
509.238.1978
Summer in Washington means cherry season, and Cherry Hill Orchard & Market has turned that into a full-blown family adventure. Open through July for U-pick cherries and raspberries, this family-owned farm north of Spokane grows three stellar cherry varieties, Bing, Rainier, and Pie cherries, alongside beautiful red raspberries that practically beg to become jam, cobbler, or just a handful eaten right there in the field.
Beyond the fruit, you’ll find an artisan vintage market packed with treasures from over twenty vendors, each contributing their best antique finds and handcrafted items. There’s something wonderfully unexpected about walking out of an orchard with a basket of fresh Rainier cherries in one hand and a one-of-a-kind vintage find in the other.
The old playground swing set sees plenty of action from kids and grandparents alike, and the lawn games make it easy to turn your fruit-picking trip into a full afternoon picnic. It’s the kind of place where a simple cherry-picking trip somehow turns into a haul of fruit, antiques, and a whole afternoon well spent.
Beck’s Harvest House
9919 E Greenbluff Road
509.238.6970
Some farms hand you a basket and tell you to get to picking. Beck’s Harvest House hands you a full itinerary with a side of pumpkin donuts. Though this popular Green Bluff destination is most famously known for its Fall Harvest Festival, the truth is that Beck’s delivers something sweet in every single season, from the first strawberry of summer to the last pumpkin of October. The Country Kitchen has achieved near-legendary status for its pumpkin donuts, but the homemade breakfasts and lunches served with panoramic views of Mt. Spokane are equally worth the trip.
Meanwhile, the Country Store is packed with homemade sauces, jams, rubs, regional wines, and craft beer, plus holiday gifts, décor, antiques, and keepsakes that make it dangerously easy to overspend. The Fruit Fort opens in late June and runs Wednesdays through Sundays until the end of October, carrying apples, peaches, berries, cherries, and a wide variety of veggies for those who love the harvest but not the hunt.
For the hands-on crowd, the U-pick orchards offer cherries, peaches, pears, and apples, depending on what’s ripe, turning a simple stroll through the rows into a full sensory reset.
Come fall, the whole farm shifts into festival mode, as the giant corn maze opens, live music fills the patio, and the Country Limo rolls out for guided orchard tours with Beck’s resident fruit expert, who knows every tree like an old friend. In the end, Beck’s isn’t defined by a single season. Here, it turns a simple farm visit into a full-blown experience you didn’t realize you were craving all year long.
Walter’s Fruit Ranch
9807 E Day Road
509.238.4709
At Walter’s Fruit Ranch, the motto is simple: this is where fun grows! And the Morrell family has designed every inch of their 50 acres to ensure that’s exactly what happens. The season starts with some of the sweetest strawberries you’ll ever taste in mid-June and transitions into “bend over peaches,” so named because they are so juicy you have to lean forward to keep from ruining your shirt.
From there, the fun keeps on sprouting, with cherries, apricots, and sunflowers in July; summer apples and nectarines in August; and by fall, the orchard bursts with more than 25 apple varieties, pumpkins in every shape, and fresh-pressed cider you can watch being made. That’s also when the Fall Festival kicks in, complete with a corn maze, corn cannon, live music, pumpkin picking, and the Fruit Loop Express giving families rides through the orchard’s rows.
Need a break from all the fun? Stop and refuel at the Orchard Café as they serve up sandwiches and giant scoops of Mary Lou’s homemade ice cream perched on top of fresh-baked pies. Before you leave, grab one of Arny’s Take-n-Bake Pies for later. From November onward, the farm stays open Friday through Sunday, so you can still grab produce, ice cream, and a chance to feed the goats even as the season winds down.
Hidden Acres Farm
16802 N Applewood Lane
509.238.2830
Long before “sustainable” became a buzzword and “no-spray” was a selling point, Hidden Acres Farm had already rooted itself in the eco-friendly traditions that define it today. Four generations on 65 acres, powered by solar, wind, and biodiesel, this family answers to the land. The results speak for themselves in a U-pick spread that builds a feast of seasonal abundance, expanding as the year rolls across the bluff.
Spring begins with morel mushrooms pushing up through the soil, followed by rhubarb through June, strawberries around Father’s Day, and sweet cherries in July. Vegetables run from spring to fall, spanning everything from classic staples to rare varieties you won’t find in a grocery store.
Summer also brings their melon patch, featuring yellow watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, Hami, and Tigger melons, along with apricots, peaches, and a riot of flowers, including sunflowers, lavender, and a dahlia field boasting 80 varieties from mid-July to first frost.
Fall deepens the palette with apples, winter squash, and a sprawling 25-acre pumpkin patch offering 25 varieties in every shape and color. The Jam Shop carries raw honey, pollen, propolis, royal jelly, freeze-dried fruits, and simple-ingredient take-and-bake pies, while the bakery turns out fresh hand pies daily. Add orchard camping, a petting zoo, free-range eggs from five species of birds, gourds, and Carpathian walnuts in October and November, and Hidden Acres stands as one of Green Bluff’s most complete and enduring farm experiences.
Green Bluff isn’t just a collection of farms. It’s a living, breathing cycle of flavors, traditions, and community moments in Spokane that return year after year. Whether you’re chasing the first strawberries of June, the perfect peach in August, or the pumpkin that will anchor your front porch in October, each farm offers its own version of nature’s bounty. So grab a basket, load up the car, and let the orchards show you what the season tastes like. The Bluff is waiting.
