apples

I can still smell apples...

On an extra warm and beautifully sunny Sunday as part of the "Growing the Harvest Festival" we were part of a community apple picking & juice making bonanza.

We began in an apple orchard(Fuji)where we collected only the apples that had fallen down(they would of just stayed and rotted otherwise)....within 20 mins of collecting,eating apples and chatting to the farmer a bunch of us had collected a trailer load plus a few extra baskets, so satisfying!

 

 

Our loot was hauled back to The Hub community garden plot (for an afternoon juicing) and we went back to town to share a community lunch of yum pumpkin soup under the Big Oak Tree

The apples were prepped and then went into an apple pulper (kind of diced the apples ready for pressing)...it was powered by bicycles (which were powered by children)....The pulp was then wrapped in calico and layered. Then pressed....!

Gosh...the juice was ridiculously delicious!

It was poured into bottles for folk to take home, and with all that drinking and bottling there was still such a huge amount of apples left.

At the end of the day, unsure of what to do with such abundance it was suggested an apple juice bath may be the go...

In the end we decided to continue juicing next weekend.

We took a bounty of bottles and baskets of apples home. Then took off to Vaughn Springs and collected some Mineral Water and made delicious Apple Mineral water concoctions. 

Our house smells so sweet!