The orchard at Graywood Farm is providing an unusually abundant harvest this fall. We've enjoyed fresh applesauce and fall fruit salad with apples, pears and raspberries. I put two quarts of Concord grape juice into the freezer for making grape jelly later this fall.
We don't spray our fruit trees and usually the apples are gnarled and small and almost inedible. This year, due to the cool and wet spring, the apples are sweet and good sized. Whitetail deer regularly graze in the orchard and we find windfall fruit with tooth marks all the time. We are careful when we pick up fruit; with deer grazing, there is concern for the cleanliness of the fruit.
I took this photo in mid-September after harvesting grapes, raspberries, pears and apples. You can see the blossoms that produced the apples and pears in these two posts from May:
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Wanda Hayes Eichler
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