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An Afternoon of Apple Picking

10/26/17 | East Coast, family

Small Green Apple - Apple Picking at Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard

This weekend my parents were in town and while we did a ton of fun activities but my favorite might have been how we spent our Sunday afternoon apple picking. Growing up every Fall we would drive an hour North of my home town visiting a handful of orchards and this we decided to relive some childhood memories. Therefore we rented a car, left the city in the late morning and decided to go apple picking at Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard. It has definitely become much more commercialized than I remember in 20 years ago but we still had an awesome time.

The website says that apple picking is available April through December but when we went to visit in late October while the pumpkins were in full season but the trees were almost picked completely bare.  To be honest, I get it, you need to pick the apples when they are ready and this year we had a bad hurricane.  However, after 20 minutes of wandering around the orcahrd with our glasses of Harscrabble Cider (see more here) we were pretty disheartened to see that all of the trees had no real apples on them but thanks to a maintaince guy we found a dozen trees in the back corner of the orchard that had ripe apples for the picking! 

Apple Picking at Harvest MoonSitting in a Tree Apple PickingHard Scarbble Cider at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardThe Orchard Apple Picking Baseball at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardFall Leaves at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardWith the Apple Picker at Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard Vince Camuto Boots Apple Picking at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardDad Apple Picking at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardKevin Apple Picking at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardKelly Apple Picking Baseball at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardRed Apple from Apple Picking

Yes, I did climb a few trees for the heck of it but then we got down to business with the apple picking. All four of us contributed and we filled up the bag with amazing apples from our long pickers and then engaged in an awesome game of family apple baseball – something we definitely have been doing since my brother was old enough to lift the heavy metal apple picker! Take a look at some of these action shots: 

Kevin Apple Picking Baseball at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardApple Picking Baseball at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardKevin Apple Picking GIF

Then with an overflowing bag in tow we headed back to the main farm house and because we had gone to the far corner of the orchard we had a long walk back. As a reward for all of our hard work we enjoyed a sweet corn before heading out for the day. 

Kevin and Dad Apple Picking at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardSweet Corn on the Grill at Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard Sweet Corn at Harvest Moon Farm & OrchardCorn at Harvest Moon Farm & Orchard

Have you ever gone apple picking? 

 

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Comments

  1. Rachel says

    October 31, 2017 at 1:12 am

    I love spending time with my family too!

  2. Jessica says

    October 27, 2017 at 4:33 pm

    I have never seen anyone play baseball while apple picking. You have a fun family!

  3. Pam says

    October 27, 2017 at 4:24 pm

    Looks like the perfect way to spend a fall day. How were the apples? Would you recommend this orchard-looks like it was perfect?

  4. Abby says

    October 27, 2017 at 4:10 pm

    Looks like such a fun day…love that the nails are red and the corn looks yummy!!

  5. Sarah says

    October 26, 2017 at 10:09 pm

    This really does look like a great day with your family and I love your boots!

  6. TAMMY says

    October 26, 2017 at 3:16 pm

    Wow this is fun. I can tell you had a great time. Climbing trees is always fun, especially in warmer weather.

Hi, I am Kelly and welcome to Sparkles and Shoes, a fashion, travel, and lifestyle blog.  I am a New York City girl at heart but I moved to London in the Spring of 2018!

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