Apple Orchard Visit

We had so much fun visiting the apple orchard. The weather was perfect on both days and the kids were so excited. They had the biggest smiles on their faces for the entire day.  They needed to bring their backpacks with them to carry their lunches, apples and pumpkins and not one person complained:-) We have some young adults on our hands.

When we got to the apple orchard we took a ride on a tractor-trailer with Ms. Kay.   She took us to a corn
maze. 



We learned that the corn that they grow at the orchard is used for animals to eat. It is really hard. That means that humans cannot eat it or we might have stomachaches.  We could not believe how tall the corn was. It was above everyone's heads! 

We wound our way through the maze without getting lost once.  We learned that if you flew over the corn maze and looked down at it from an airplane, it would be in the shape of a giant jack-o-lantern!

After the maze, we learned a lot about the different types of apples they grow at the orchard from Ms. Betty.
She showed us how much an apple tree can grow in a year...about one foot!

She showed us how they give the apple trees a haircut.  They call it pruning.



We learned that the apple orchard grows four types of apples...honey crisp, harelson, chestnut crab and an apple similar to the granny smith.  We tasted several different kinds and decided we love the honey crisp the best. Ask us how we can tell the apples apart.

 

It was fun to look at the shape of the seeds inside the apple.

 

 

We watched Ms. Betty show us the special ladder they use for picking apples. Notice the pole...it makes it easier to go over branches and get closer to the tree.

After we became apple experts, we got to wander around rows of apple trees and pick Harelson apples. Yum!

We loved picking out a special pumpkin from the patch.

We sure had fun and were super exhausted by the time we returned to school.  Ask us what our favorite part of the day was!