Apple Picking!

Two and a half weeks ago now my housemates and I decided to go apple picking at Apple Creek Orchard in Ferndale. It is a nice little orchard of Jonagold apples. The apples cost $0.50 per pound or $10 per five-gallon bucket. Upon arrival my friends and I each grabbed a bucket and headed out into the orchard.

We were greeted by these lovely fowl

Yay apples!

There are the bucket we were working on.

These were dwarf trees so I was able to reach the top in most cases.

One of the cool things about this orchard was that we were able to eat as many apples as we wanted while we were picking. I believe we all had at least three. And if kids come, any apples they can fit in their pockets are free.

By the time we were done we had three heaping buckets. When we got home we weighed them at approximately 80 pounds! At $30 total that is 38 cents a pound!

We made many a quart of apple sauce, apple chips, pie, and cake. After giving five and a half quarts of applesauce away, we still have 8 quart jars on the counter and several tupperware containers in the freezer (not to mention the immense amounts we ate straight off the stove). Two and a half weeks later there are four apples left...