They live on the farm for between 4-8 months and then either transfer to another farm, or go back home till the next season.
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Other bloggers on this trip were The Kitchen Fairy, Eclectic Soapbox, Nutrition Artist, Little Sweet Baker, The Viet Vegan, The Messy Baker, The Cookie Writer, Imagelicious, Carmy – Run Eat Travel, The Unlikely Baker, How To Eat, Nomadic Nutritionist, Weekend at the cottage & Baking for Friends – check out their recipes too!Īs I was busy admiring the flawless fruit that Eve lured Adam with, I spy a group of pickers! These pickers typically are seasonal agricultural workers that come from Mexico and Barbados to work in the orchard and pick fruit every year. Here you see my friend Puneeta from Maple and Marigold look for the perfect shot! Our group of eager bloggers had plenty of photo ops to get up and personal with these beautiful fruit. Also the cost of picking the apple on the ground for organic waste or cattle feed is labour-intensive & too expensive, so the best is to leave it on the ground to fertilize the soil for next year’s crop. I asked the farmer why the fruit couldn’t be saved by installing a net and the answer he gave me made perfect sense – when the apple falls, even if it is caught in a net, when it collides with another apple it will bruise, which makes it unsellable. Many of the trees in the Orchard that are done for the season have a lot of fruit on the ground. In commercial growing, if the apples touch the ground, they cannot be sold under Food Safety protocols. This fruit is typically picked late fall.
This was found growing in the orchard among another apple variety. The Ambrosia is a fairly new apple discovered in British Columbia in the early 1990’s. This farm grows about 10 varieties of apples at this time of year the Ambrosia is ripe for the picking. They also protect the crop from hail using a hail cannon.Īpple Fact: There are 15 different main varieties of apples are grown on nearly 16,000 acres in Ontario The difference even if it’s a few degrees can save the crop. If it tree is over producing there are many methods to trim back the apples to maintain quality including thinning, pruning and applying certain products. Machines such as frost fans are used to suck in the cold air and push it upward, pushing the warm air back onto the orchard. The trees are also thinned so they produce the right amount of apples. Everything is calculated, the height that the tree is allowed to grow to, and the distance between each tree and the rows. Ian Parker, Orchard Manager is very knowledgeable and it blew my mind to learn how much strategy and science in involved in keeping the apples safe. Courtney is the seventh generation farmer in the Stevens family! This farm is owned by the Stevens Family Charles and Judi and their daughter Courtney. We started off at Wilmot Farms in Bowmanville.
This trip was made mid October and although Apple picking is finished for the most part, the trees are still laden with Ambrosia that is picked in the mid to late fall. Ontario Apple farms are located in three different zones and they are all close to the lake regions – Lake Ontario, Lake Erie, Lake Huron and Georgian Bay. Although it was an amazing trip, we didn’t get to see any of the apples on the trees as it was November and picking was done for the season. Last year we visited another farm in the west end. We headed to Wilmot Fams to the Apple Orchards and onward Algoma Orchards to a packing plant. This year I was invited to tour with the Ontario Apple Growers.
This post is sponsored by the Ontario Apple Growers – the opinions and recipe idea is entirely my own.ĭo you know where your apples come from? Contrary to popular belief, they don’t magically appear on grocery shelves.
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