Fresh off the season when gardeners are thinking all tomatoes all the time in their kitchen as they use up their harvests, we’re now into the all-apples time of year. Vermont growers produce about a million bushels of apples (40 million pounds) each year. We also have our share of apple specialty products, notably sweet apple cider, hard cider and the dessert wine ice cider. With our eyes on the trees at foliage season, it's hard not to think of our biggest orchard crop.
On Friday the Burlington Free Press Savorvore section explored the apples of Vermont with features on Allenholm Farm in South Hero and how to press cider at Chapin Orchard. King Arthur Flour’s round up of the best of Sift magazine fall recipes includes buttermilk apple pie and apple cinnamon bars with peanut butter glaze. The Tasting Table recently featured Vermont cider maker Shacksbury Cider and their Lost Apple Project. We’re also in the final week of Pick for Your Neighbor, an initiative of the Vermont Foodbank encouraging donations from Pick Your Own orchards.
There are lots of ways to explore Vermont’s apples in October. Here are a few more:
Pick Your Own Farms Around Vermont
Information on VT Apples from Vermont Tree Fruit Growers Association
Featured Events:
- Cider Craft Workshop & Tasting, East Montpelier, October 8th
- Champlain Orchards Harvest Fest, Shoreham, October 8th
- Vermont Cider Classic, Burlington, October 9th
- 14th Annual Heirloom Apple Day, Dummerston, October 9th
- Introduction to Hard Cider Making, Middlebury, October 15th & 16th
- Heirloom Apple Pie Workshop, Dummerston, October 15th
- On the Farm Dinner at Scott Farm, Dummerston, October 29th
Recipes from the Archives:
