Wescott Orchards

Four decades ago Doc Wescott started growing apples for fun on his Elgin, MN hobby orchard – and planted the seeds for what is now Wescott Orchards, Wescott Agri Products and Honeybear Brands, a national leader in varietal development.

Wescott’s president is still Fred Wescott, one of Doc’s 13 children, who joined the family business right out of college in the seventies with some ideas for growing not just apples but a national business. For the past 40 years we’ve worked hard and today Wescott is both a long-trusted, local grower of the very best regional varieties up and down the Mississippi River Valley, as well as the center piece of the national and international group of growers under our sister company Honeybear Brands.

Sure, we may have grown in many ways since our early days but our original orchard, store and packing facility is still right where we started in Elgin, MN. And although we pack, ship and sell apples all over the country, we’re still out in the orchards every day, hands on and obsessing over how to grow the best apples we can.

Our Mission

That’s the same as it was when we started in the 1970s. Quite simply, we’re here to grow, pack and ship the finest apples and do it all with the utmost honesty and integrity.

And we’re well on our way, we believe. Wescott (and Wescott Agri Products) is a full service developer, grower, packer and distributor of some of the finest eating apples in the United States today. We’ve worked hard to build a network of perfect partner orchards around the country and in the southern hemisphere, which allows us to produce and guarantee year round supply to our retailers nationwide.