Apples are ready Picking daily 9 to 5
Apples are ready Picking daily 9 to 5
From the orchard
By the crew at Historic Weston Orchard & Vineyard · September 2026
Cider at a Glance
It’s the first cool Saturday in October. Somebody in the car wants real cider, the kind that tastes like the apples it came from, and the jug at the grocery store isn’t going to cut it. The question is where to drive.
Historic Weston Orchard & Vineyard presses its apple cider on the farm, from apples grown in its own rows, 35 minutes north of downtown Kansas City in Weston, Missouri. You can take it home by the half gallon or gallon from the market, drink it frozen as a cider slushie on a warm picking day, or get it hot and spiced once the weather turns.
On a farm, apple cider is the juice of pressed apples. It isn’t alcoholic. That’s hard cider, which is a different drink entirely.
What makes farm cider worth the drive is where the apples come from. Ours come off the same 17,000 trees you can walk through and pick from. They’re picked in the rows and pressed in the barn, so the cider in the jug is the orchard in a bottle, not apples trucked in from somewhere else.
Our cider, by the half gallon. Pressed on the farm.
The same cider shows up all over the farm, and it’s the reason a lot of people stop in the market before they leave.
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The market sells it in half gallons and gallons, pressed here. This is the one to grab if you want cider in the fridge all week, for a party, or for mulling on the stove at home. Prices are at the counter.
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On a hot picking day, the cider slushie outsells everything else in the building. It’s our fresh cider frozen into a slush, and it’s the best thing to hand a kid who just spent two hours in the orchard in September sun.
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When the sweaters come out, the same cider gets served hot and spiced instead. It’s the cup to hold on a cold fall afternoon.
The cider also has a job in the bakery. It’s what our apple cider donuts are fried in.
The farm is open every day, 9am to 5pm, May through November, and apples run mid-August through November. Fall is when cider and the orchard line up best: you can pick apples in the morning and leave with a jug of cider made from the same trees.
Getting here
Weston is a straight shot up I-29 north. Take the Platte City exit and follow the bluffs into town. We’re at 18545 County Road H, Weston, MO 64098.
From around the area, it’s about 35 minutes from downtown Kansas City, 25 from Parkville, 15 from Platte City, and 12 from Leavenworth across the Centennial Bridge. Hours and directions are on the plan your visit page.
12 minLeavenworth15 minPlatte City25 minParkville35 minKansas City
Most people don’t drive up just for cider, and you don’t have to. Farm admission covers the play zones, the hayrack ride and a picking bag, and you can pick your own apples from the same rows the cider comes from.
Pick first, then stop at the farm market for cider by the jug on the way out, so it isn’t riding around in a hot car all afternoon.
Poured at the farm, jug in the background.
No. The apple cider at the market is nonalcoholic. Hard cider is fermented, and ours pours at the Cider Barn, 21 and up with ID. See our wines and hard ciders.
Our fresh apple cider, frozen into a slush. It’s the most popular thing in the building on a hot picking day.
Half gallon or gallon jugs, pressed on the farm.
Cider lines up with apple season here, which runs mid-August through November.
Take the orchard home in a jug
Pick your apples, then stop at the market on your way out. Open every day, 9am to 5pm, May through November.
