More Apples....again

It's that time of year again.
The end of the apple picking season.
And what a beautiful day to end it on.

The apples at Chudleigh's farm may not be organic but some of them are so big they have their own gravity.

I think last year we went to Avalon Orchards but I found that the apples didn't last as long after we picked them, and some had worms. But that's the drawbacks of not using pesticides. Ever notice that milk seems to last for sometimes more than a month? Gotta wonder what's in the milk.

So we took a tractor ride around the orchard.
Dropped us off at the Russett and Mutsu apples, other than yellow delicious, that was pretty much the last apples left for the season.

You can buy bags of the other varieties, but we found that they were a little on the bruised side. So we stuck with these two.

Getting off the tractor was a lot tougher than getting on. All Kieran wanted to do was ride the tractor. The ride was a little too short for him. But after shedding a few tears he marched on and helped us pick a few. Some apples were almost the size of his head. The beauty on non-organic produce. Unnatural size.
You could feed an African village for 2 days with 1 Mutsu apple.

After we dropped off our bags at the car in order to beat the crush of people in the afternoon, we headed back so that we could go to the hay maze, the animal farm and eat something too. I was hungry for some food as long as it wasn't apples.

It was a beautiful day for picking, or sitting in your car in traffic trying to get into Chudleigh's. This is the road leading up to the farm at about 1:30pm. I guess most of these folks don't think ahead. Cuz they all had the same idea. The place was a zoo when we were leaving.

The line of cars almost stretched back to the highway.

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