For the past few weeks I’ve been procrastinating about getting outside and raking the blanket of leaves that cover our front yard. As I looked out the window last Sunday I realized that my house was the only one on the block without a neatly lined row of yard waste bags along the curb. The time had come and I knew I couldn’t put it off any longer, so I got the troops up off the couch and the three of us headed outside to work.
October makes me think of certain foods and one of those foods is apples. Did you know that Michigan is the third largest apple producer in the country? (We are behind Washington state and New York). We have about 950 family-operated apple farms in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula and this year’s apple crop will be one of the biggest in recent history – around 26 million bushels. I was especially happy to learn that Meijer was the number one seller of Michigan Apples in the world!
A few weeks ago I went on a tour of apple country – right up Fruit Ridge road off of I-96. The site of the orchards with tree branches full of bright red and green apples was truly amazing! Our tour took us from the orchards, to the packing houses and finally to a kitchen to create delicious apple recipes.
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