Manzanar Los Silvestres -- 2025 apple crop

By Tim Seaman and Glenna Dean

After three years of spring frosts, we will finally have apples and pears for sale this year! This season we will have about 50 apple varieties available for sale from our Los Silvestres orchard located at 21581 US Highway 84, and through the Abiquiu Farmers Market on Tuesdays behind the Post Office. We will offer tree-ripened fruit by the pound, as gallon jugs of fresh cider, in Glenna's baked goods, jellies, jams, and dried fruit. Grown without any chemical sprays or fertilizers, and watered from the Abeyta-Trujillo Acequia, our apple varieties are perfect for eating fresh, storing for winter, for cooking pies and other savory dishes, and for making fermented beverages (our specialty). We do not grow varieties available at grocery stores and some of our apples are kind of ugly in comparison. Rather, we have tried to preserve forgotten apple varieties from America and around the world with unique tastes and qualities.

Please come sample our apples as they are harvested in September and October. A list of our varieties and harvest schedule is available for download here.  You can explore these varieties on Google to find the perfect match for your apple pie (try Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, or Baldwin). If you are interested in making cider, we have many varieties that will add tang and complexity to either fresh juice or hard cider (try Kingston Black, Bulmers Norman, or Wickson). Stock up on apples for winter storage. Some late harvested varieties are at their best on Thanksgiving and Christmas (try Black Twig, Arkansas Black, and Black Oxford). 

Sales will start after Labor Day and continue through October. Just look for the signs on US 84 or better yet, call us for a tasting tour. Families and pets welcome.
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Tim Seaman and Glenna Dean
(505) 685-4871