McConnell Farms

Old Dana Rd · Hendersonville, NC

A family farm since the 1940s.

Fruit and vegetables off our own 100 acres, ice cream we churn right here, and more figs than you'd guess grow in these mountains. Come by the farm store.

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Illustration of a fig branch with two ripe figs and a leaf

The farm store

When we're open

Sunday is a short afternoon. Hours can shift with the seasons, so give us a call if you're driving a ways.
Monday to Friday9 am to 5 pm
Saturday9 am to 4:30 pm
Sunday1 pm to 4 pm

Good to know

Before you come

  • 177 Old Dana Rd, Hendersonville, NC 28792
  • We take credit and debit cards, and checks
  • Wheelchair-accessible entrance and parking
  • Quick stop or a slow wander, both work
  • No delivery: come see us

(828) 692-2819

Crop calendar

What's growing, more or less when

Weather decides the real dates. Call ahead and we'll tell you what's ready today.

Spring

Strawberries & early greens

  • Strawberries, picked for you at the farm store
  • Asparagus
  • Rhubarb
Summer

Berries & peaches

  • Raspberries
  • Blackberries
  • Peaches
  • Vegetables
Fall

Apples & the porch stuff

  • Apples and cider
  • Pumpkins
  • Ornamental gourds
  • Indian corn
September

Figs, and the Fig Festival

About 5,000 fig plants, 68+ varieties. Festival details

Buying for a store or restaurant? We sell vegetables and apples wholesale. Call us.

Made on the farm since 1999

Ice cream that follows the harvest

It started with strawberry, churned in an antique Amish freezer run by an old hit-and-miss engine. These days the flavors change with whatever's coming out of the field.

  • Strawberry (always on)
  • Fig
  • Peach
  • Raspberry
  • Blackberry
  • Sweet potato
  • Sweet corn

We're a stop on the Hendersonville Ice Cream Trail. While you're here, grab a cider donut or a hand pie, and a jug of our fruit or vegetable cider.

Every September

The Fig Festival

We put in our first figs in 2010 and picked the first crop in 2011. Now there are about 5,000 plants and 68-plus varieties, some of them part of a cold-hardiness trial. Once a year we throw a party for them.

  • Fresh figs and fig preserves
  • Fig donuts, whole pies and fried pies
  • Three fig ice creams, bourbon maple fig among them
  • Farm tours with Danny

Call for this year's dates

Since the 1940s

How the farm got here

Danny studied small fruit and vegetable production at NC State, then came home. He and Kathryn run the farm today with their family.

  1. 1940sReid and Claire McConnell start out with tobacco and beef cattle, and later add a dairy.
  2. 1960sThe dairy cows are sold and the first apple trees go in.
  3. 1999Strawberry ice cream, churned on an antique engine.
  4. 2010Danny plants figs. The first crop comes in 2011.
  5. TodayDanny and Kathryn McConnell keep it going.

From Google reviews

What visitors keep mentioning

4.5 from 58 Google reviews

  • How friendly the folks behind the counter are
  • The homemade ice cream, and how unusual the flavors get
  • The peaches
  • Fresh fruit and vegetables
  • Apple cider donuts
  • The nursery and the grounds
  • That it's a real family business