This is us on a big yellow school bus taking us from the parking lot to where the festival was being held. Please note my apple shirt that I wore specifically for the occasion. :)
Here is a picture of a cider press. The man dumps the apples it and they are ground up into pieces that drop into the brown cloth in the bucket below. This bucket then has a piece of wood placed on top of it and a person cranks down and smushes the apple chucks. The juice flows out of the apples into another bucket. That juice is then strained through a piece of cloth and is used to make cider.
There was more than just apples at the Apple Festival. There were lots of crafts and some silly fun. Also, a giant wall of kettle corn! I have never seen so much kettle corn in my entire life. And yes we did buy a giant bag of kettle corn. Haven't put much of a dent in it yet. I told Waseem to wait until Wednesday night and we'll sit on the couch eating our giant bag of kettle corn while watching Glee on the tv! :)
And what would an Apple Harvest Festival be without a tour of an apple orchard? The tour consisted of driving around in a big yellow school bus listening to a tape playing over the loudspeaker telling us about the history of apples. The voice on the tape was creepy. If you have ever watched Family Guy, then you might know the perverted old man who walks around with a cane and always hits on Chris - well that's what the voice of the guy telling us about the apples sounded like.
I learned that the reasons we can buy apples in the grocery store all year long, despite apple harvest happening in the fall is because the apples are harvested and put into a climate controlled environment. This climate controlled environment has all of the oxygen sucked out of the room and it is replaced with Nitrogen. This causes the apples to stay fresh all year long!
Me apple picking! Yum!
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