La Magie de La Pomme

Red barns and tractors, sunny rolling hills and trees bowed low with fruit, leaves turning apple colored with the fall. There are hundreds of places within a 1hr radius of Montréal to go apple picking, Magie de la Pomme is probably not the best in all categories but for what it does, it’s a star. Firstly the donuts: get some immediately. They are like a softball of light fried dough, hot tart apple, and baking sugar. Secondly: everything else! Plenty of parking, a couple of different fun tractors you can ride on out into the fields to go picking, 2 or 3 kinds of apples to pick and, in the further field (you can walk or wait for the blue tractor,) dozens of varieties of squash.
The apple orchard and gift shop area felt a little crowded — we were there on one of the last warm weekends of the fall — but we ventured out to the gourds where it was quiet, played with the baby and the squashes and the dirt and the bugs, took the last tractor back to the barn at about quarter to 5, had some apple juice in the sun, waved good bye to the goats, and hit the road happy.
The is a family farm run by folk who have been in St Eustache for 6 generations and you can feel it in all the easy smiles. Enjoy!