Fruits of Our Labors- ANTICIPATION
Spring brings blossoms, summer brings fruit, and fall brings libations!
From my art journal done this spring with the apple blossoms. I’ll do a “Still Life With Hard Cider” when the time comes.
Last weekend some friends invited us to help them pick and press apples. We picked pounds and pounds of apples, brought by the wheelbarrow full to the press. Then we washed and dropped the apples into a mechanical chopper. The chopped apples were then put into an old-fashioned crank juice press. We took turns washing, chopping and cranking – filling jugs of apple juice to freeze for drinking later. Then we juiced more, about 20 gallons more in fact. This juice is now bubbling and brewing and becoming hard cider. This process is way beyond my skills, I’m leaving it up to a master mixer, but since I volunteered to pick and press… this fall I’ll get to taste. Not bad pay!
I have a years worth of workshops lined up on the calendar go to my website to see what’s happening and how to sign up! http://lisathorpe.com/classes.html
Martha
What an amazing exhausting enterprise….. the next step after the lovely anticipation journal entry.
Sonia
Wonderful to have you all as fellow “Pressers!”. Let this be the start of an annual tradition complete with feasting!! Thanks again. We’ll keep you abreast of the cider progression.
Sonia
I meant to say FEASTING!!
sally nole
Wonderful design
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