The Fruit Harvest

[poliphilo]

2013 was a great year for apples. This year one of our trees hasn't fruited at all and the others are very sparsely laden.

I've been picking apples so I can juice them in my fathers wine-press.



Lot of work for very little return.

Ailz says she'll buy me a juicer but that's missing the point. A juicer is kitchenalia whereas the winepress is a toy.

Maybe I'll press some grapes. We do have a few vines. My mother used to make wine. We found some bottles in the garage- twenty years old- and It tasted like- well, not like anything you'd pay money for.

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

We took ours to a cider press. We didn't get the cider from our apples; we got as much cider as our apples should have yielded, less a cut for the cider press guy.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Matthew- our gardener- does that. This is apple country round here. Everyone with any land has trees.