There is a U-Pick farm not too far from our house (1 hour 15 min). Actually, the farm has 2 sites only a few miles apart. One has apples, pears and peaches - including a gift shop with pies, goodies, fudge and did I mention goodies? The other is pumpkins and vegetables. We went, obviously, to the apple farm!
It is a U-Pick, but they do have prepared boxes if you are not into that. But in my opinion, why drive to a U-Pick farm, if They-Pick?
Never been to a U-Pick farm? Here's how it works:
1. Get your bucket and apple picking tool and your favorite apple picker:
2. Stand around waiting for the tractor that pulls the "wagon" that takes you to the apple fields.
3. Let your tractor driver know that you are READY to go!
4. Have your favorite apple pickers pick you some apples
5. Have a seat and enjoy some apples fresh off the tree!
Mini P loved eating the apples, which is how we have 2 partially eaten. Have a few bites... get a new one
6. Load 'em up and hit the road!
Now I have lots and lots of apples! This morning we had waffles with cut up apples baked in and dessert tonight is apple crisp. Now I have only 85 apples left :- )
The best thing the farm had was a guy out there making Apple Pie Ice Cream - it is vanilla ice cream with an apple pie with crumb topping mixed in! I'm telling you, we walked by him at least 3 times to get samples. He assured us he wasn't counting!!!
Such a great time - the first picture COULD have been eliminated....Sure am glad we went. When is pumpkin pickin?
ReplyDeleteGma
That is pretty cool! Although I don't consider an hour and 15 minutes 'close', it looked like fun. We love apples...just drive a 'bit north' and share with us! haha :-)
ReplyDeleteum, yum! how about apple crisp or apple fritters or apple dumplings? and no, I don't know how to make any of those things... :)
ReplyDeleteHeidi when we are 15 min from groceries, 30 min from Target...what's 1.5 hours??? LOL!
ReplyDeleteJessie - I have made 3 batches of apple crisp and my parents and I peeled, cored and sliced (with a peeler/corer/slicer - not by hand) the rest - 3 bags ready for pie, 8 bags ready for anything! Glad we love apples - haha!