there is no apple core

Kauffman Fruit Farm

For offf-season cider this was great!  Amos L. Kauffman started planting the Kauffman Fruit Farm in in Bird-in-Hand Pennsylvania  back in 1911. Five generations later the family is still running it and it tastes like they know what they're doing.

Union Square Apples

I stopped in Union Square in New York City on a Saturday morning and found apples. These were not fresh picked. These have been refrigerated and packed in a controlled atmosphere cold, humid, nitrogen rich and low in CO2.

This is not new. a century ago clever orchard keepers packed their ice house with sacks of lime. The lime oxidized into Calcium carbonate stripping the air of CO2 in the process. I ate many and while not at their peak, many were quite good. Except the Lady Apples. Those are terrible even fresh, strictly decorative.

Caption-less cover image of girl picking apples in Pennsylvania 1962, from Pennsylvania Farmer Magazine. .

Lyndale Stand

Ida red, Melrose, Mutsu, Gala, Empire... It's the end of the season, but the late yielding trees still make a last stop at the Lyndale farm stand worthwhile. Right beside the Boston Turnpike it's an easy stop on a nice detour. You can find more Connecticut farm stands here.

Owned jointly by the three Shirey brothers, Eugene, Andrew,and Stephen Shirey, this farm resides in Berks county Pennsylvania. Located at 1259 Old Airport rd. in Douglassville, you can see the apple trees from the road. I found their apples at a chain grocery store, prominently displayed but not labeled by type which is a minus.

That's the setting sun, not the rising sun on those apples. At a farmers cart in Unionville, a hired hand was selling apples, pears, Lima beans and some greens. The apples were not labeled at all but Golden Delicious, Gala, Granny Smith, Macintosh, and others were easily identified.