This is the 100th post on this blog, whoo!
Zak and I had a day off together this weekend and we decided to go to an orchard I'd heard about to pick apples. I grew up getting apples every fall with my family and have sorely missed the tradition, so when my friend told me about this place, I thought it would maybe help fill the void. We went to this place about 40 minutes away, in Garfield, WA. It was a small orchard, with several types of apples, and even pears and plums. And cider presses!
I saw that there was cider pressing on the weekend, but wasn't sure what that entailed. The website said to bring jugs and boxes, so we brought a few gallons jugs for cider. I thought we would just fill them up with cider readily available, but we ended up pressing the apples ourselves! One of the owners explained it to us, and I will admit it sounded a little intimidating at first, but once we got down to it, it was pretty easy! And fun. We pressed two gallons full and then go to apple picking. We grabbed a bunch of different types of apples, about 10 pounds' worth. Then I made us some apple crisp, and it was wonderful. All in all, a very nice day spent together, having fun. Here are pictures!
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| Garfield, it's a small little town |
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| You were expecting this, right? |
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| People pressing cider |
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| Our 'private suite' |
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| The people supplied the apples for us |
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| Turning the handle to crush the apples |
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| Being manly and the like |
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| Pouring our cider into our jugs |
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| The apples after being smushed |
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| Our view |
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| Yum yum yum, best cider ever! |
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| Smushing the apples |
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| Apple carcasses |
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| Pretty trees in the orchard |
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| Being tall was an advantage |
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| Posing with apples, naturally |
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