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Apple Season!

It's happening! Harvesting so many different apple varieties, each with its own peak time, can get complicated. For pick-your-own people, not so much: just chomp on an apple from a tree, and if you like it, pick some more! "Taste the first one" we say. It's fine to drop bitten apples in the grass -- so many critters, visible or microscopic, will use them.

For the "big" harvest, of packable wholesale and cider apples, the decision to pick'em also requires biting! With early, midseason, and late-ripening varieties, tasting usually finds the prime moment to bring them in. Inside each apple, the ripening process is converting starches into sugars (fruit sugars) so any taste of starchiness tells us it's too early. There are also sciencey ways to measure starch and sugar -- sometimes we use those on the weird-tasting apples grown for juicing and fermenting into adult-beverage ciders. For the eating/cooking/deliciousness apples, the bite test tells the story. Either way, the pressure is on to get those fruits in fast, but carefully...

So come do your own bite tests! And taste ciders, sweet and -- if legal -- hard. Also walk our woods trails, take a trailer ride on fair weekends, roam all over, let the kids run, walk the dog (on leash), and celebrate the season.