Apple picking

Rusty · 09-23-2012, 07:42 PM

I went to Butternut Farm this morning and picked @ 20 lbs of Cortland Apples.
The picking was real bad and I had to ask for a ladder to get the ones that were left on the trees. If you like drops then you could get all you wanted.

There were more people at the farm then there were apples. When I arrived there were cars parked on the sides of the road before the entrance of the farm and they even had two people directing traffic.

I have never seen it this bad at this time of the apple picking season.

However I was treated real well by the staff at the farm.

Slickcraft · 09-23-2012, 08:27 PM

We are saddened that the late frost killed off much of the local crop. It's a lot of work to manage a good orchard and this must be a hard year for local growers.

We normally pick a half bushel of cortlands about now and another in about 2 weeks. My wife did make a pie today with fresh cortlands that she got at the Alton Hannaford store, the display said grown in Barnstead. Not as satisfying as picking our own but I'll say that this pie with a scoop of Giffords vanilla ice cream is pretty darn good.

hilltopper · 09-24-2012, 09:04 AM

We ended up going to Smith's orchard in Belmont instead of Stonybrook, who were picked out. We got a half bushel, but you really had to work for it. Apple pickers were a must. I would guess that this weekend was it for Smith's.

09-23-2012, 07:42 PM	#1
Rusty Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2010 Posts: 2,028 Thanks: 603 Thanked 687 Times in 425 Posts	I went to Butternut Farm this morning and picked @ 20 lbs of Cortland Apples. The picking was real bad and I had to ask for a ladder to get the ones that were left on the trees. If you like drops then you could get all you wanted. There were more people at the farm then there were apples. When I arrived there were cars parked on the sides of the road before the entrance of the farm and they even had two people directing traffic. I have never seen it this bad at this time of the apple picking season. However I was treated real well by the staff at the farm.

09-23-2012, 08:27 PM	#2
Slickcraft Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Welch Island and The Taylor Community Posts: 3,340 Thanks: 1,247 Thanked 2,121 Times in 970 Posts	We are saddened that the late frost killed off much of the local crop. It's a lot of work to manage a good orchard and this must be a hard year for local growers. We normally pick a half bushel of cortlands about now and another in about 2 weeks. My wife did make a pie today with fresh cortlands that she got at the Alton Hannaford store, the display said grown in Barnstead. Not as satisfying as picking our own but I'll say that this pie with a scoop of Giffords vanilla ice cream is pretty darn good.

09-24-2012, 09:04 AM	#3
hilltopper Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Meredith Posts: 727 Thanks: 25 Thanked 109 Times in 70 Posts	We ended up going to Smith's orchard in Belmont instead of Stonybrook, who were picked out. We got a half bushel, but you really had to work for it. Apple pickers were a must. I would guess that this weekend was it for Smith's.