Cultivating your
local experience.

Giving you the opportunity to slow down, reconnect, and enjoy the incredible local offerings that surround you. Relaxing weekend wagon rides around Grills Orchards and nearby fields. Reminiscent of a simpler and less complicated time. At Grills Orchards, everyone can connect with the working farm, from gazing upon the chickens to biting into a fresh apple they’ve just picked themselves.

For youngsters, a visit to Grills Orchards is an opportunity to learn, explore, and have some good old fashion fun. For others, Grills Orchards is the perfect place to spend a quiet afternoon, and it’s not uncommon for folks to spend hours peacefully walking around the farm.

Check out what’s in store…

Open year-round, Grills Orchards Country Market store located on Grills Rd, just off Highway 401 between Belleville and Trenton Ontario.

It’s easy to get to, a pleasure to browse around, and a great place to stock up on locally grown in-season fruits and vegetables, condiments, cheese’s, frozen meats, and preserves.

You’ll experience excellent customer service, as well as find the area’s best selection of apples, homemade pies, and baked goods, fresh apple cider, ice cream, and so much more! And remember, if Grills orchards didn’t grow it, one of our neighbours did.

More than a few seasonal reasons to stop by…

Corn maze.

Every spring Grills Orchards plants a 10-acre Corn Maze, a lot of creative energy, and a tremendous amount of work goes into this project to make it the best corn maze in the area.

Pick Your Own!

Apple picking at Grills Orchards is truly a fun-filled experience. You can wander the orchard at your own pace and pick the apple of your choice.

Fresh-made treats.

If you’re looking for something a little sweeter than the naturally sweet and crisp Grills apples, then Grills Orchards has you covered.

We have over fifteen incredible varieties of apples for you to enjoy.

Ambrosia

Take a bite out of the Ambrosia apple. Its flavour is best described as refreshing with floral notes and a pleasant crisp, fine-grained flesh. It’s very sweet with very little acidity. Ambrosia is an apple that naturally doesn’t brown quickly after being sliced, making it perfect for snacks or salads.

Crips Pink

Its firm flesh is pale yellow to gold and contains a few dark brown seeds in the centre of the fibrous core. Crips Pink apples are very crisp and juicy with a sweet flavour combined with subtle hints of spice, pear, nutmeg, and cinnamon.

Cortland

Cortland apples are medium-to-large in size, and often rather flat in shape. They are bright red and covered with dark red streaks; often they are capped with a green blush. Their crisp, finely-grained white flesh is exceptionally juicy with a sharp, sweet-tart, vinous flavour.

Crispin

Granny Smith apples have a bright green skin that is often speckled with faint white lenticels (spots). Medium to large in size and round in shape, they are a firm and juicy apple with thick skin. Their flesh is bright white and crisp in texture with a tart, acidic, yet subtly sweet flavour. Granny Smith apples grown in colder climates will often take on a yellow to pink blush.

Empire

Empire apples are red, juicy, firm, crunchy and sweet. They ripen during September and October, and will keep until January. The original seed was a cross between the varieties McIntosh and Red Delicious. Empire apples are excellent for eating and salads, and good for sauce, baking, pies and freezing.

Fuji

Fuji apples are medium to large. The thick skin of the Fuji apple is light red with a yellow blush, and is oftentimes lined with red vertical stripes. The Fuji’s interior creamy white flesh is dense, juicy, and crisp. Low in acid, the flavour is mild yet very sweet with hints of both honey and citrus.

Gala

Gala apples are bi-coloured with an attractive orange-red blush, which is most commonly striped and exposes a white-yellow background colouration. The fruit has sweet, yellowish flesh and an attractive crisp texture. ‘Royal Gala’ is a Gala with more than 50% red colouration of the skin: they taste the same!

Golden Delicious

Golden Delicious is a large, yellowish-green skinned cultivar and very sweet to the taste. It is prone to bruising and shrivelling, so it needs careful handling and storage. It is a favourite for salads, apple sauce, and apple butter.

Granny Smith

Granny Smith apples have a bright green skin that is often speckled with faint white lenticels (spots). Medium to large in size and round in shape, they are a firm and juicy apple with thick skin. Their flesh is bright white and crisp in texture with a tart, acidic, yet subtly sweet flavour. Granny Smith apples grown in colder climates will often take on a yellow to pink blush.

Honeycrisp

Honeycrisp is a medium-to-large sized apple, with a light green/yellow background largely covered with red-orange flush with strong hint of pink if grown in good sunlight. The skin may be flecked with occasional russet dots. As its name suggests this is genuinely a crisp / crunchy apple.

Idared

Idared is a type of apple cultivar from Moscow, Idaho, United States. First developed at the University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station in 1942; it is a cross between two apple varieties (Jonathan x Wagener). The Idared has a white flesh with a firm body, and is generally considered to be tart and juicy.

Jonagold

Large in size its flesh is crisp, juicy and creamy yellow in colour. The Jonagold apple has a balanced blend of both its parents’ flavours offering the sweet-tart taste found in the Jonathan and the aromatic honey like scent of the Golden Delicious.

McIntosh

The McIntosh apples crisp flesh is exceptionally juicy and bright white in colour. When first picked the flavour of the McIntosh apple has a strong sweet-tart taste with nuances of spice, this flavour will mellow slightly in cold storage.

Northern Spy

The Northern Spy apple has a skin colour that is green ground and flushed with red stripes where not shaded. The tree produces fairly late in the season and stores very well. The white flesh is juicy, crisp and mildly sweet with a rich, aromatic subacid flavour, noted for high vitamin C content.

Red Delicious

Meet the world’s favorite snacking apple. The heart-shaped Red Delicious features a bright red and sometimes striped skin. Renowned for its crunchy texture and mildly sweet flavour, this tasty apple shines in cool, crisp salads.