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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl

6488 Posts

Winnie
Gainesville Fl
USA
6488 Posts

Posted - Aug 20 2017 :  12:55:59 PM  Show Profile
I am offering another Apple giveaway this year to help celebrate our upcoming Apple Festival Month starting September 1, 2017. This year, I have made a few fun things to help you celebrate this fun month together. If you would like to participate, just leave your name below and tell us one special apple memory you have.

A winner will be drawn on Friday September 1!!

A big congratulations to Lenora, firecatinc, for being our 2017 Apple Festival Winner today!! I am sending you an email to get your mailing address and as soon as I receive it, you package will be in the mail.

A big thanks too to everyone who entered and left a fun story about an apple experience in their life. I enjoyed reading everyone and I hope all of you did as well. If you still have not signed up for the Apple Swap, you have a few more days to join in the fun. Apple fun will be shipping across the states and into Canada soon. And we all know that Farmgirl Mail is the BEST ever!

By the way, today I was in the grocery store and decided to check out the bags of apples. One bag of Jonamacs, which are a hybrid of Macintosh and Jonathans, was present. They came from New England area. One little clue I have discovered is that if you get a strong whiff of apple when you smell the bag, there is a good chance that the apples are this year's crop. They are also medium sized which is convenient for lunch boxes and desks at work. The bag passed the sniff test and they are really good. As a matter of fact, I have eaten two of them this afternoon!!! If you go to the store this weekend, check out the bags of apples and see if any pass the sniff test!! Later this weekend, I thought I would bake a couple and see how they turn out. I love baked apples made in my apple baker. Easy and delicious!





For more information on our Apple Festival, see my other post today.

I am also posting an Apple Swap under the swap category if you would like to participate as well. The more apples the merrier!

An Apple a day keeps the doctor away!!

Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015

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Shi-anne
True Blue Farmgirl

596 Posts

Cheryl
Ada OK
USA
596 Posts

Posted - Aug 20 2017 :  1:17:56 PM  Show Profile
I remember years ago, watching the Disney short, about Johnny Appleseed and the teacher passing out apples! Such a fun experience!!

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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl

9203 Posts

Denise
Beavercreek Ohio
USA
9203 Posts

Posted - Aug 20 2017 :  3:41:27 PM  Show Profile
I remember apple picking with my mom when I was young. I always loved biting into their sweet, crunchy goodness as we rode back home. I always think of those times when we go apple picking with our grandchildren.

~Denise~
Farmgirl Sister #43

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105

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hudsonsinaf
True Blue Farmgirl

3162 Posts

Shannon
Rozet Wyoming
USA
3162 Posts

Posted - Aug 20 2017 :  6:27:57 PM  Show Profile
Our favorite memories are going to the orchard in Hendersonville NC and picking apples... bushels and bushels of apples! We MAY have found an orchard here locally, so I'm hopeful we can continue our annual tradition. We generally pick and buy between 5 and 6 bushels!!!

~ Shannon, Sister # 5349
Farmgirl of the Month - January 2016
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl

6488 Posts

Winnie
Gainesville Fl
USA
6488 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  10:41:36 AM  Show Profile
I hope everyone is finding this link so they can sign up for the giveaway!

Thank-you Cheryl, Denise, and Shannon for the wonderful apple stories you have. Shannon, I do hope you find an local orchard there in Wyoming near your new home!

Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
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MaryJanesNiece
True Blue Farmgirl

6625 Posts

Krista
Utah
USA
6625 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  10:48:33 AM  Show Profile
My favorite apple memory was from when I was in elementary. I don't remeber exactly which grade but it was a younger one. We brought apples to school and turned them into turkeys. We used toothpicks with marshmallows on them as the turkey tail feathers and then a colored paper turkey head on a toothpick for the head. I wish I still had a picture. I remeber being so excited about my apple turkey that it was our centerpiece for Thanksgiving dinner!

Krista
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl

6392 Posts

Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
6392 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  10:49:09 AM  Show Profile
Please put my name in your Apple Crate for the give away Winnie.
Thank you.

Hugs,
Deb
#1582
Blessed in Colorado

FGOTM, Septembe, 2012

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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl

6392 Posts

Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
6392 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  10:52:07 AM  Show Profile
quote:
Originally posted by Blessed in Colorado

Please put my name in your Apple Crate for the give away Winnie.
I remember taking my son Kent who is now 41, when he was young to an apple orchard in Germany on a crisp fall day to pick apples. Oh the fun we had.
Thank you.

Hugs,
Deb
#1582
Blessed in Colorado

FGOTM, Septembe, 2012

"You must do the thing you think you can not do." Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings We simply continue to fly on our Broomsticks. We're flexible like that!

http://shopus.longaberger.com/mountainwingslongabergerbaskets
http://myworld.ebay.com/debbt



Hugs,
Deb
#1582
Blessed in Colorado

FGOTM, Septembe, 2012

"You must do the thing you think you can not do." Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings We simply continue to fly on our Broomsticks. We're flexible like that!

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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter

13556 Posts

CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores Colorado
USA
13556 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  12:37:48 PM  Show Profile  Send ceejay48 a Yahoo! Message
Hi Winnie,
Please enter me in your giveaway! I have MANY apple memories as I grew up on a farm with big apple orchards. One of the first things you learn if you are going to help harvest is how to set and use an orchard ladder properly and safely. It's one thing to ascend these ladders with an empty picking sack and quite another to descend with it full. You're carrying all the weight on your front and you could easily topple forward . . . or misstep . . . or hang the bulky cargo up on the rungs of the ladder.
The orchards still exist and I live on acreage that used to be part of the farm. Even though my parents are long gone to heaven I'm able to STILL enjoy the orchards. They belong to someone else now, but these folks are gracious and, since I'm one of the Gardner daughters, I can pick ALL the apples I want!
Love my daddy's orchards and apples!
CJ


..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
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firecatinc
True Blue Farmgirl

1252 Posts

Lenora
Fulks Run VA
USA
1252 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  4:20:17 PM  Show Profile
I would like to be entered into the give away. I remember in 4th grade making applebutter. Our arms were so sore from stirring.

Nora
Farmgirl Sister #7131
Farmgirl of the Month, January 2017
http://firecatinc.wordpress.com
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lovinRchickens
True Blue Farmgirl

3435 Posts

Kelly
Pipe Creek Texas
USA
3435 Posts

Posted - Aug 22 2017 :  4:53:23 PM  Show Profile
I would like to enter. My family has gone to pick apples since my girls were young. Five years back we planted apple trees on our property, so now we harvest our own. Girls are almost grown so those are fond memories.

Farmgirl #5111
Farmgirl of the month October 2014
Blessings
~Kelly~
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MBurns
True Blue Farmgirl

1744 Posts

Marlene
Swisher IA
USA
1744 Posts

Posted - Aug 23 2017 :  2:18:57 PM  Show Profile
every year we attend an amish fall festival in sept. where they make apple butter, apple fritters, apple pie everything homemade and you can watch and taste. so fun. also my grandpa planted apple trees all over the neighbor hood and took care of them. I still have a tree on my dads farm that bears apples every year. grandpa was like the legend of Johnny Appleseed.

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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

6746 Posts

Sara
Paris TX
USA
6746 Posts

Posted - Aug 23 2017 :  2:23:06 PM  Show Profile
I don't have any apple festival memories because apples don't grow in Texas but I do remember bobbing for apples as a child. Does that count?

Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.

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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl

2474 Posts

Bonnie
Minneapolis Minnesota
USA
2474 Posts

Posted - Aug 24 2017 :  7:23:50 PM  Show Profile
Please enter me in the apple giveaway. Minnesota has many apple orchards so we go to pick every year. Our arboretum developed the honey crisp. My favorite.

grandmother and orphan farmgirl
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nndairy
True Blue Farmgirl

2972 Posts

Heather
Wapakoneta Ohio
USA
2972 Posts

Posted - Aug 28 2017 :  09:08:26 AM  Show Profile
I'd love to win some more apple goodies, but since I was the lucky winner last year please pick someone else Winnie. I would love to share my favorite apple memory though. When I was a teenager this recipe card came in the mail - it was some kind of deal that you were supposed to buy more of them. Anyway - the free one was for an apple pie. It sounded delicious. My mom bought me the apples and I proceeded to make my first homemade apple pie. I was not at all prepared for the amount of work or time it would take to peel all those apples and slice them up. And the part where you use 2 knives to cut in the butter for the crust! I learned real quick how handy the little tool they have for that is! I really didn't think all that work was worth it as I put the pie in the oven. I was SOOOO wrong!!! My family was so thrilled with my pie. I made it often. I even entered it in the fair for a 4-H project. I have since used other recipes, but I will never forget making my first apple pie.

~Heather
Farmgirl Sister #4701
September 2014 Farmgirl of the Month
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"The purpose of life is to enjoy every moment" - Yogi teabag
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Red Tractor Girl
True Blue Farmgirl

6488 Posts

Winnie
Gainesville Fl
USA
6488 Posts

Posted - Aug 28 2017 :  10:23:31 AM  Show Profile
I just love all of these wonderful apple memories that all of you are sharing!! They are just so sweet to read and fill my day with smiles and even a laugh at times. Thank-you ALL!!!

He, he he, here is a photo of me picking delicious apples for everyone!!





Winnie #3109
Red Tractor Girl
Farm Sister of the Year 2014-2015
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Cissik
True Blue Farmgirl

578 Posts

Sylvia
Kent WA
USA
578 Posts

Posted - Aug 28 2017 :  10:45:38 AM  Show Profile
Growing up in Hawaii, I don't have childhood memories of picking apples. Moving to Eugene,OR, I took my first bite from just-picked apple and I was in heaven. Now I own several trees and so look forward to our yearly crop. Fresh apples are amazing.

Sylvia
Kent, WA
Farm Girl #5389
Back Door Farm Girls Chapter
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nnfolkways
Farmgirl in Training

25 Posts



USA
25 Posts

Posted - Aug 28 2017 :  2:34:43 PM  Show Profile
My favorite apple memory is going to the local u-pick farm while they were making apple butter in a huge cauldron. They had a bluegrass band playing and my daughter, who was two at the time, was holding her gourds and dancing. The smell of the hay, cinnamon, and apples are a smell I've yet to be able to replicate.

Heather

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and morning dew.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Bonnie Ellis
True Blue Farmgirl

2474 Posts

Bonnie
Minneapolis Minnesota
USA
2474 Posts

Posted - Aug 28 2017 :  7:43:33 PM  Show Profile
I almost forgot about the apple butter. I was an interpreter at a historic site. Every year we made apple butter in a copper kettle, stirred with a wooden paddle over an open fire outside on the grounds. I made about 48 quarts. A lot of work but delicious result. The jars went to staff members.

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LeeW
True Blue Farmgirl

61 Posts

Isleta
Raymore MO
USA
61 Posts

Posted - Aug 31 2017 :  1:05:23 PM  Show Profile
Please enter me; I love apples. We have a local orchard that makes the best clear apple cider - only available in grocery stores now that their restaurant is closed. They served wonderful apple fritters and apple butter. Thank you!

"Life is too important to be taken seriously." -Oscar Wilde
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levisgrammy
True Blue Farmgirl

9203 Posts

Denise
Beavercreek Ohio
USA
9203 Posts

Posted - Aug 31 2017 :  5:57:37 PM  Show Profile
This is so fun! I haven't been able to be involved much on the forum in a while and it feels so good to come back and join in on all the great farmgirl stuff.

~Denise~
Farmgirl Sister #43

"Thy Word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path." Psalm 119:105

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firecatinc
True Blue Farmgirl

1252 Posts

Lenora
Fulks Run VA
USA
1252 Posts

Posted - Sep 01 2017 :  4:40:24 PM  Show Profile
Thanks Winnie.

Nora
Farmgirl Sister #7131
Farmgirl of the Month, January 2017
http://firecatinc.wordpress.com
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter

13556 Posts

CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores Colorado
USA
13556 Posts

Posted - Sep 01 2017 :  5:22:49 PM  Show Profile  Send ceejay48 a Yahoo! Message
Congratulations Nora! I'll bet Winnie has something really special for you!
CJ

..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
2010 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
Mother Hen: FARMGIRLS SOUTHWEST HENHOUSE

my aprons - http://www.facebook.com/FarmFreshAprons

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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl

6392 Posts

Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
6392 Posts

Posted - Sep 01 2017 :  7:23:14 PM  Show Profile
Congrats Nora, I can not wait to see the goodies Winnie will send. What a lucky Farmgirl you are.

Hugs,
Deb
#1582
Blessed in Colorado

FGOTM, Septembe, 2012

"You must do the thing you think you can not do." Eleanor Roosevelt

Women are Angels, and when someone breaks our wings We simply continue to fly on our Broomsticks. We're flexible like that!

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lovinRchickens
True Blue Farmgirl

3435 Posts

Kelly
Pipe Creek Texas
USA
3435 Posts

Posted - Sep 02 2017 :  05:28:16 AM  Show Profile
Congratulation Nora! Enjoy your goodies. Thanks for doing this Winnie.

Farmgirl #5111
Farmgirl of the month October 2014
Blessings
~Kelly~
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YellowRose
True Blue Farmgirl

6746 Posts

Sara
Paris TX
USA
6746 Posts

Posted - Sep 02 2017 :  06:31:10 AM  Show Profile
Congratulations Nora!

Sara~~~ FarmGirl Sister #6034 8/25/14
FarmGirl of the Month Sept 2015.
Lord put your arm around my shoulders and your hand over my mouth.

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