Hello friends,
Todays post will be about my boyfriend and I’s first fall activity that he actually brought to my attention… I know eh, what boy brings up fall activities! In all fairness to him, it was a client at his work who told him about it so I won’t go too hard on him!
First Fall Activity of 2018: Apple Picking!
The place we ended up going to was called Log Cabin Orchard. It was only about a 25 minute drive from our apartment at the South end of Ottawa, ON. As we were getting closer to the location, we noticed all these cars lined up along the side of the road. I thought wow this must be a pretty good spot to get some apples!
The first thing you do when you arrive is figure out which driveway to go into! Hint: its the one by the big sign. Then you wander down it and if you are anything like me you stop and take a million pictures of their cute little cabin! (star of my picture of the week last week – click here to see!) Once we made it down, we wandered into the cabin from the back door. That is where you pick out what size of bag you want to fill up with apples and pay for it before you go out picking! They also had a food/drink area outside the cabin where they were selling fresh apple cider and churros!
As you make your way into the orchard area, they also have a little petting zoo for the kids. Even though it was mostly for the kids we checked it out too … always a kid at heart!
The older man who owns this orchard tells you that you can walk in and follow the orange cones to the trees that are ready to be picked or you can take the tractor ride in! We chose to walk for a bit of exercise on our relaxing/lazier day, but that tractor ride sure looked like fun! Well at least all the kids looked like they were having a good time 😀
The orchard was absolutely beautiful. Everywhere you looked the trees were lush with all types of apples. It was a very hot and humid day, however when the clouds covered for a bit it was a nice break from the direct sunlight!
So, I have never been apple picking before but it sure was fun! This is the view you get when you arrive at the trees you’re allowed to pick from. Its amazing how straight the lines of trees are! The first apples we picked were Macintosh. We filled up half our bag with these ones. They were hanging low enough on the trees that you could still reach them – although the ones up higher were bigger!
Next, we scampered across to the other size where the Lobos were. Now the lower apples were picked over here so they had ladders set up so we could reach the higher ones! And yes, the ladders were the old school wooden ones – very cool.
It was a bit sketchy climbing up those ladders though because they weren’t the most stable! The apples were calling my name though so we went up anyways – sorry parents! haha we got our apples in one piece I promise!
We ended up with our bag full right to the top and had a lot of fun doing it! Now we had to walk back to the car with this heavy bag of apples in the +30C heat – safe to say I has a sweat stash going on and the boy was kind enough to point it out.
In conclusion, I would highly recommend going out and picking some apples this fall! It is a very fun activity to do with yourself, a friend or even the whole family! I know I will be going out picking apples every fall from now on!
Also, the best part about it is that you get to take home and eat these delicious apples! We still have a few left but I have been having one or two everyday!
Have you ever been apple picking before? If you haven’t, would you go try it now? Let me know in the comments below!
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How do you manage to add so many pictures? I can just add one I think
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I always create my posts on my computer not my phone (not sure if there are limits on a phone). Then as I write my post I go to the button at the top left that says add media and then I select all the pictures I want and how I want them to look! You usually have to import your pictures off your computer into WordPress. There is an option to add new media if you need to do that.
Let me know if this makes sense and if not I’ll try to explain it better! ☺️
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You can only have one featured picture though (the one at the very top displayed)
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Yes, I know but you uploaded more and I want to know how you did that
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Yes, I know that. But you add several pictures and I would like to know how you do that 🙂 I write the blog entries on my computer as well.
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We grow our own apples and pick them every year. There is nothing like a fresh picked, sun-warm apple!
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That sounds amazing to be able to grow your own!
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I used to go apple picking with my mum when I was younger, did other fruit picking such as strawberries too. I loved it, haven’t been in a while though -may have to go again after reading this post!
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Definitely go again – it’s so much fun!
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Have you thought about going to pick other kinds of fruits too? Berry picking is always fun- also easier access if you’re short like me haha
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Yeah we went strawberry picking this summer! And then I usually pick blueberries at my grandmas house
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Your photographs are always on point. Love it!
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Thank you so much!
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Lovely apples indeed.
We took our little boy out to the country and picked wild black berries. I did all the vine snipping and held out the ripe berry’s so he and my wife did not net all torn up upon the huge sharp bramble vine thorns. It was his first time out picking black berries and I suppose next summer when his sister come along and it turns into a all out black berry fight, the real fun will be then. 🙂
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That sounds like a fun time with the family! 🙂
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There’s nothing better than freshly picked fruit as far as taste! However, as some one who grew up surrounded by orchards, and made his spending money by picking apples in the fall, I can tell you that climbing up and down the ladders, standing on them for hours, all while carrying a heavy bag of apples gets old very quickly.
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Yeah I bet it would get old quick haha it’s exciting for a one time per year activity!
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