Last night the community had a spontaneous realization: it's cool enough after dinner to hang out together and store food for winter. (I could have told them that!) The apple trees are producing like crazy, and it takes as many hands as we can muster to get them cleaned and juiced.
Since we don't spray our trees, almost every apple has a worm. They're no good for storing in the root cellar. We're just trying to put up enough cider that we can share it around the campfire at the big gathering in five weeks. Maybe next year we can find an environmentally friendly way to spray so we can store our fresh apples.
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hmmm, hot apple cider and a crackling fire. How much better can it get!
Well, at this point the crackling fires need to be indoors with 1/4" screen on the freshly swept chimney, but soon! After a few rains we'll be able to have spiced cider around a campfire.
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