Apple Cider, Anyone?
Do you have apples ripening on your tree? A local group of volunteer fruit foragers would love to come by and pick the ripening fruit. The Fruit Barons harvest unclaimed fruit and donate surplus to a number of local organizations. This year they will also recover apples to make cider for a social event hosted by Healthy Trees. Persons with ripening fruit can bring in their own apples or call the Fruit Barons at 220-6330 or 224-3827, who will donate some of the apples for a cider-making event to be held on Saturday, 5 November, 10 a.m., at 2578 South Curry Street, #5, in Carson City. This location for Healthy Trees is south of Greenhouse Garden Center and behind Liaison Salon.
Those who love local apple juice can join this social affair and bring knives and cutting boards for slicing up fruit, a comfortable chair to work from, jugs for the cider, and large buckets. Five gallon buckets move the fruit from the washing station to the cutting tables to the cider press. Dave Zahrt, a recent transplant from Iowa, has a cider press mounted on a trailer, which grinds the sliced fruit and presses the apple mulch into delicious apple cider. According to Zahrt, it takes about a bushel of apples to make a gallon of cider. Enthusiasts who have their own apple press are invited to join in the event and assist with production. For more information on the cider-making social, contact David Zahrt at 882-1662 or Tom Henderson at 224-3827.