Apple Annie

Today Farm&Garden Club held a trip to Apple Annie. It is a large apple farm near the school that is owned by a PEA teacher, Mrs. Lu. We went there at 9.45AM, so that the sun was not too strong.

Apple Annie

Our mission was to pick up apples to donate it to farmers in NH. Mrs. Lu let us pick Enterprise Apple, which is a new GMOs clone. It is very disease-resistant. It is the very first time that this clone is picked, so it was a great opportunity for Farm&Garden Club members. 

Enterprises are not opened to public yet!

 Picking enterprises

The plants have been planted for only few years, so they are so small compared to other clones. 

After that we continued to pick apples from red delicious clone, which is a lot bigger than enterprise. The plants have been planted for 25 years, so they are enormous and produce so many apples.

 Red Delicious

 Picking Red Delicious

Then we selected good apples from dropped ones to make cider and to discard the bad one. After having done selecting dropped, we went back to farm's store and had donuts and cider. Then we took a glance on cider-maker machine before heading back to PEA.

 Farm's Store

Dropped Apples

Cider-maker Machine