“Rainbow Fan with Donut Border” – Rainbow Orchards

The traditional rainbow quilt design has been en­hanced with a border of donuts to honor the co-owner Christa who is called the “Donut Queen”. It is hanging on the barn that today serves as a farm stand for Rainbow Orchards. It was painted by Jane Harris, sister to co-owner Tom. Their grandmother, Mimi, with her mother, quilted a rainbow quilt used as inspiration for the barn quilt. The historic barn was built in the late 1930s for sorting and storing ap­ples and pears grown on the property. It also houses the original apple cider mill still in operation today. This is a third-generation family farm founded in 1977. Forty-four years later, Rainbow Orchards has grown from its original heritage apple and pear or­chard to producing blueberries, blackberries, plums, peaches, nectarines, winter squash, and a wide va­riety of apples. NOTE: you will notice that many of our farms began as pear farms… a blight killed hundreds of acres of pear trees and then apples were planted among other things. Rainbow has become one of the larger direct marketing farms in Apple Hill®. Their bakeshop sells pies, tarts, crisps, cob­blers, jams and jellies, and their world-famous hot apple cider donuts.

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