Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to share one of my favorite things to do: apple picking!

Walking for Apple Picking

Apple picking has absolutely been one of my favorite activities my whole life. I've been doing it since I can remember, really. My parents have been bouncing around to a few different farms but we settled on one farm that is about an hour away from where I grew up and although I've gone to many different farms throughout the area, I think that this one is definitely my favorite for picking apples!

I was a little surprised, the apples this year weren't that big. A few years ago we had a significant amount of rain, similar to how we started out the summer with basically 2 entire days without rain in the month of June lol it was one of the wettest June's I can remember, though I do remember some others that had a considerable amount of rain. No don't give me that climate change dog shit, thanks.

The apples were pretty normal size, I wonder if it was because we went from a lot of rain to some pretty hot temperatures for a little while, but then it cooled off and was a pretty mild bit of weather towards the end. Don't get me wrong, the apples tasted delicious! We were just looking forward to some that were ..bigger I guess haha.

I love standing in the rows of all of these trees! They have such a cool look to them, completely full and bursting at the seams with the apples waiting for people to come by and swipe a couple. I know that I didn't see any deer in here, but deer are certainly apple lovers! Some hunters with less scruples than they should have bait deer by dropping down a few dozen apples and within a day or two there are deer dropping by to eat some snacks. Thankfully I think it's illegal to do that, since it is trapping them unfairly compared to all of the other hunters who are standing in blinds and stuff to get one.

With the farm here, there were hundreds of rows of apples and they cycle through them depending on the day and how strongly they are getting people to come by and harvest for themselves. They certainly employ some visa workers to come by and harvest for them but they mainly rely on the tourist attractions of people flocking by the hundreds or thousands to the farms for some delicious fresh farm treats.

When I was growing up, I was a little misinformed when it comes to apple varieties. I thought that McIntosh were my favorite species of the apples but it turns out that it wasn't the case! Cortland has now become my favorite, though McIntosh is a close second. They have a delicious bitter yet sweet taste to them and damn do they have a loud crunch! I love the sound of a nice crunch bite into an apple haha, delicious stuff!

There is another variety that I think I was mistaking Cortland apples for. Empire apples are ones that are wicked sweet and they are quite honestly fucking disgusting. Those are the apples you frequently seen sold at convenience stores and stuff, where people don't normally buy an apple but they occasionally will. Those apples are just gross lol I don't know if I would eat one if given a choice between that and something else. Sorry to y'all who love Empire apples, but that's not my jam! :D

We were sandwiched happily between a row of Cortland and a row of McIntosh apples and we picked a bag full of them. In years past we would get the gigantic bag but we also have the farm share that we get food from as well. The farm share that we have gives us about 8-10 apples a week for the last 2 weeks since it's prime apple picking season, so we've got lots of apples roaming around the house. The key for me is to make sure to eat them all before they go bad! I missed out on some and that makes me sad, because apples are definitely one of my favorite and healthiest snacks in the autumn time that we are in.

Sadly we've had a decent bit of rain as well these last few weekends and I heard someone say that the farms were losing out on many thousands of dollars of revenue because of the damn weather this year. Ah well, we've made sure to get out to the farm a couple times to pick some apples and enjoy the weather, so we will try and go for some late season apples as well in a week or so. Those ones aren't as much my favorite as the early to middle season ones but the only apples I'm discriminating against are the Empires LOL and they don't have those around here on the trees. We are McIntosh and Cortland regions that's for sure!

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