Harvest Time

The Lord will indeed give what is good, and our land will yield its harvest.

Psalm 85:12

Every fall the MOMS Club of Draper takes a field trip to the local apple orchard.  It's nothing compared to a trip to Cherry Hill Orchards back home, but it's better than our options in Jax (none!).  This field trip includes a hay ride around the orchard, a tour of their apple cider production facility and since they are delayed in their cider production due to our late onset of springtime weather, the kids got to go through the orchard and pick their own golden delicious apple.  Kendall hadn't gotten the chance to do that yet and she was ready to pick every and all apples!  I had to show her to look for worm holes since this orchard thankfully doesn't use pesticides.  She got to eat it right off the tree!  What a great treat for us!

Here we are on our hay ride:

I have an email out to the orchard in Alpine - just the other side of South Mountain where I got my Jonagolds last year (Jonagolds are my absolute favorite apples) and I'm waiting to hear back as to when they will have theirs available.  If any of my Utah friends are interested in some, let me know and I can pick them up for you whenever I get there.  We love apple crisp, apple dumplings, apple sauce, apple butter, etc.  We also love apple cider donuts but haven't found anything better than Indian Ladder Farms cider donuts back in Albany, NY.  Our family loves the fall and all the harvest brings!