Apples...

Derrick was on Fall Break last week (don't we love vacations!) While most of the week was spent at home working on projects, Monday we went on a field trip with our Homeschool Co-op group to an apple orchard in North Georgia. We had a great time taking a wagon trip around the orchard, picking apples, and seeing how they were processed. Here are some pictures:

Here is Scott using the right technique to pick the apples. In case you are wondering, you twist the apple off of the branch. Don't pull it or all of the apples on the branch will fall to the ground.


Aren't these apples beautiful. I wish I remembered the name of them...black something. (Derrick remembered - Arkansas Black; I was close.)



Daddy helped Andrew pick his apple.

After we picked the apples, we walked to the area where they process them. It is a small orchard, so their process was fairly simple. Here you can see them being washed.


Below is the entire processing machine. They are first washed and then sent over a screen, where the little apples fall out. At the end of the line, the man boxing the apples checks for bad apples while boxing.


The boys were so interested in the process.