Harvesting apples & peaches today from our farm's orchard

Today was the big "our family's share" of the apple harvest day. Our Community Supported Agriculture (csa) members have received our orchard's apples & peaches for a few weeks. Now, it was time for our family's share!

I will spend some time canning in the upcoming week. Apple sauce & apple butter are in the plans.

In spite of the drought, our little orchard produced so much fruit! I hope to get enough apples canned & peaches frozen to last us for a couple of years. Always good to plan ahead, apple trees don't produce like this every year!

Apples, apples everywhere...

The Aloha Knitter and I were recently informed of an apple tree in need of picking. Ripe apples! I'm not sure of the exact name of this apple variety, but I've heard something about "Yellow Translucent". Sound right??

They are a soft apple, suitable mainly for making applesauce and apple butter.

The Knitter and I and our various children picked and picked and picked some more. I think we each went home with close to 200 pounds of apples!

I was tied to the kitchen for 1 and a half days. By the end of the second day, I was incredibly crabby and didn't want to see another apple.

But the applesauce and apple butter turned out so delicious!

I canned 40 quarts & 6 pints of sauce, and 16 pints of butter!











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