Our Story.

Kreps Apple Barn began in 1984 when Lee Kreps & his son, Doug, envisioned running an apple orchard as a side business. With the help of family and friends, they planted 1150 apple trees that year on the family farm. The following year, they planted 500 more.

By the mid-90s, Doug was no longer able to help with the orchard. With the decline in wholesale market, there was just too much fruit for Lee to manage alone. About 500 apple trees were pulled up & the land was converted back into farmland.

By 2003, Lee decided it was time to retire from running the apple orchard. After unsuccessfully attempting to rent out the property to other local orchards, Lee was preparing to pull up the remaining apple trees. It was then that a cousin, Brian Kreps, decided to try his hand at selling apples & did so for 7 years.

Then in 2010, Lee's grandson Jimmy McMonagle returned home from college & expressed an interest in running the family's orchard. Under the guidance of his grandfather, Jimmy began caring for the orchard & managing Kreps Apple Barn. He bought his own cider press & converted a lean-to off the barn into a new cider mill. In 2016, the century old barn underwent a major renovation repairing the foundation and replacing the wood floor, in order to open it up for our new store location.

In 2017 Jimmy and his wife, Grace, bought the 80 acre family farm and moved into the farmhouse where Jimmy’s grandfather spent his entire life. They love being able to raise their young family on the family farm and look forward to passing the Kreps Apple Barn legacy down for generations to come!