When we got up to where the apples were, Gavin immediately picked up an apple on the ground, found it to his liking and ate almost the entire apple while we were in the orchard.
The view of the barn from where we were picking apples.
Nothing better then an fresh picked apple straight from the tree.
Not only did we come away with our three bags of apples, but we decided to buy of each of the 12 varieties of apples grown at Carter's Mountain and have our own little apple tasting contest to see what one was our favorite.
The choices were:
winesap
granny smith
gala
jonagold
albermarle pippin
jonathan
macintosh
rome
golden delicious
red delicious
york
stayman
**Important to note...no honeycrisp apples were included in this tasting contest, and everyone knows they are the ultimate winner!**
The girls expressions as they tasted Granny Smith
McKenna's Best: York, Macintosh, Gala, Granny Smith, Winesap
McKenna's Worst: Golden Delicious, Albermarle Pippin, Winesap
Interesting that winesap was included in both
Abby's Best: York, Golden Delicious, Gala, Albermarle Pippin
Abby's Worst: Stayman, Granny Smith, Jonathan, Winesap
Zachary's Best: Stayman, Albermarle Pippin, Winesap
Bret's Best: Jonathan, Albermarle Pippin, York, Winesap
Bret's Worst: Red Delicous, Golden Delicious (which we actually thought tasted like a pear)
Em's Best: York, Jonathan, Albermarle Pippin, Winesap
Em's Worst: Gala, Macintosh, Red Delicious
So after we narrowed down to four as a family to find our favorite. And the winner was...
First Place: York Second Place: Jonathan
Gavin left our party early to have a tasting contest of his own...
We found him upstairs very happily eating the Halloween candy.
2 comments:
What a fun activity! It looks beautiful! And great idea with the apple tasting. You guys are having some fun adventures it sounds like. Miss you!
You just brought back our all time favorite memories from Ohio. There is nothing like picking apples at the farm in fall! Oh - I miss that!
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