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Our story · Since 1947

Four generations on the farm.

Hall’s has been a family farm since 1947. Four generations later, the Halls and a long-time member of the crew are still growing apples just outside Brockville.
The farmhouse and barns in 1947, on a green hillside, captioned “Halls Apple Orchard, 1947”
Plate I. The farm in 1947.Brockville, Ont.

Generation I · 1947

From Montreal to 120 acres in Brockville.

In 1947, Melville Hall and his wife Emily left Montreal with their 19-year-old son, Christopher Kyle Hall, and settled on 120 acres outside Brockville, Ontario.

It began as a mixed farm, with horses, cows, pigs and vegetables. The business was called M. Hall & Son, and the son soon had bigger plans.

  1. Generation II · Kyle Hall

    Kyle turns the farm to apples.

    Kyle built the area’s first controlled-atmosphere storage room, which kept apples crisp long after harvest, and gave the farm over to the orchard.

    Under Kyle, the business grew steadily until Hall’s was supplying grocery stores across a 250-mile radius, Dominion Stores among them. Along the way he renamed M. Hall & Son to Halls Apple Orchard, and laid the foundation of the farm you visit today.

    Two small boys in plaid shirts beside a farm truck lettered “M. Hall & Son, R.R. #1, Brockville, Ont.” and “Apples for health”
    Plate II. The M. Hall & Son truck, August 1960.
    Men standing behind rows of apple baskets at a downtown market, with a truck parked behind them
    Plate III. An early market: apples, and only apples.

  2. Generation III · Chris & Kim Hall

    Chris and Kim sell straight to the table.

    In 1996 Kyle passed the reins to his son, Christopher Kyle Hall II. Chris stepped back from large-scale packing and wholesale, and started selling straight to the people eating the apples.

    With his wife Kim, he grew the retail store, opened the orchard for pick-your-own and filled the shelves with farm-fresh products. They took the farmers’ market stand well past a truckload of apples, with cider, apple butter and sparkling cider.

    Chris and Kim raised their four children on the 80-acre farm. All four grew up in the family business, working in the orchard and lending a hand at the markets.

    The farm from the air: barns and the market surrounded by rows of apple trees
    The farm from the air, July 2002.
    Kim and Chris Hall smiling behind a table of apple baskets, cider jugs and preserves under a white Hall’s Apple Market tent
    Plate IV. Kim and Chris at the market stand.

  3. Generation IV · Kyle Hall & Matt Shapton

    A new generation takes over.

    In July 2024 the farm passed to two co-owners: Christopher Kyle Hall III, Chris’s eldest son and the fourth generation of Halls in the business, and Matthew Shapton, who started at Hall’s at 13 working in Maze Quest and has been part of the crew ever since.

    Together, Matt and Kyle are growing the operation and trying new things, and making sure the farm Melville and Emily started keeps going for a long time yet.

    Matthew Shapton and Kyle Hall in red Hall’s shirts and caps, standing in the orchard
    Plate V. Matthew Shapton (left) and Kyle Hall (right).
The Hall’s Apple Market sign by the road, with the market, play equipment and a vintage red tractor on the lawn behind it

The market today

Come and see what’s growing.

The orchard, the bakery and the market are still run by the family and the crew. Drop by the farm, or order from the Farm Store and pick it up on your way.
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