Apple Picking Is Fun For All
...And Riley's Farm Is The place To Go!
Apple Picking At Riley's Farm 10/11/2007
It was 74 miles from our home to Riley's front door. A pleasant
drive since we left mid-morning and avoided the normal traffic.
It's a dirt driveway getting to the shed. We have been on this
path in snow and rain lad we had a truck. Today was dry and dusty.
It is a working farm and they are planting new areas of the farm all the
time. We saw new trees against the mountain behind the shed and a
lot of other work going on.
The shed is used for get together including dinners and dancing.
We join them once in a while for big band dancing in the shed.
Yes, that is an apple bucket on my head. Great way to avoid the
sun and also get the basket from the shed to the picking area.
It don't get no fresher than this! From three to home in one day!
Cider is squeezed apples ands that is all! Not additives.
Apple
cider is the name used especially in the United States and parts of
Canada for a non-alcoholic beverage produced from apples by a process of
pressing. It is more sour and cloudy than conventional apple juice,
retaining the tart flavor of the apple pulp which is lost in
conventional fruit juice production.
Cider is mostly thought to be best[citation needed] in late autumn,
corresponding with the harvest season, and is a popular traditional
beverage on Halloween and Thanksgiving, heated if the weather is
especially cold.
This is an old log cabin from Pennsylvania.
A log cabin is a small house built from logs. It is a fairly simple type of log house; they were built both in rural areas and in cities in timber-rich regions, around the world, but particularly in the northern hemisphere. Log structures in the US were first constructed by Swedes in what is now south-east Pennsylvania, c. 1638,and as such were not used by the first English settlers in the United States. There are few log cabins that date from the 18th century still standing in the US; most were not intended as permanent dwellings and as time passed they were often converted into out buildings for coops, animal shelter or other utilitarian uses
The cabin was real, actually used by folks for years!
The shed and a view of the educational area where school kids come to
get an eyeful of what it is like to live and work on a farm.