Landmark Trust USA manages these 626 pristine acres in southern Vermont, where a team of orchardists tends some 90 varieties of low-spray heirloom and unusual apples. This beautiful property served as the location for the orchard scenes in
The Cider House Rules. There’s a farm stand, plus classes on pruning and grafting, pie baking, and cider making.
And you may rent either of two of the many historic structures here for a weekend getaway–
or the adjoining Rudyard Kipling estate, Naulakha, where he wrote his Jungle Book series.
707 Kipling Road, Dummerston, VT. 802-254-6868; landmarktrustusa.org
Amy Traverso
Amy Traverso is the senior food editor at Yankee and cohost of the public television series Weekends with Yankee, a coproduction with GBH. Previously, she was food editor at Boston magazine and an associate food editor at Sunset magazine. Her work has also been published in The Boston Globe, Saveur, and Travel & Leisure, and she has appeared on Hallmark Home & Family, The Martha Stewart Show, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, and Gordon Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares. Amy is the author of The Apple Lover’s Cookbook, which was a finalist for the Julia Child Award for best first-time author and won an IACP Cookbook Award in the “American” category.
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