Apple a Day...

Warwick, NY is a great apple picking place in the Hudson Valley. We ended up at the same orchard as last year, Applewood Orchard. And yet again we had a great time. As a bonus, Applewood is also a winery and sells yummy hard apple cider and of course wines. I can't wait to come back here with kids since they have sheep, face painting, puppets, and live music. It's basically a kids dream...and a little bit of mine. But with all the activity, Ben and I snuck away and had ourselves a picnic near the same place as last year. It's right by the red barn and open field.  We were heading out and had planned on grabbing the apple cider donuts as a dessert but they had run out which meant we had to find another orchard so we could get our donut fill. We found Orchs Orchard which was a bit smaller but had more produce and DONUTS! After that donut run we decided to visit another orchard that gets a lot of press named, Masker Orchard. It was a serious orchard and huge at that. They had all the kids activities, too. It was a production and quite pretty since it was up on a hill overlooking a valley. However, we decided that we liked the more intimate setting for picking the apples over at Applewood. Although, I'm sure one day we'll venture out to another orchard. The drive was beautiful since the leaves are beginning to change and Fall is here!

Just 3 rockstars hanging out on the side of a barn.

 This tree was full of apples ready to be picked

 Our perfect picnic

 This was the view we choose over the puppet show

 Orchs hot apple cider donuts

 Maskers serious rows of apple trees - these went on forever!

 but a good view

 This was our sunset welcoming us back home to the city!

Are you ready for apple recipes?!?!