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Bumper year for apples in NY
Oct 12, 2011 12:05 am
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[/caption]Julia Reischel in The Watershed Post reports this summer was a great growing season for apples. Jim Allen, the President of the New York Apple Association says all the rain in the spring and late summer helped make bigger fruit. “Apples are like a sponge,” Allen says. “They do soak the water up, and it does increase size.... One of the things that we’re very excited about is that during July and August, we were very warm and dry," he also says. "Those conditions make a lot of sugar in the apple. What happens in a lot of rain is that the water just dilutes that sugar back out. Hopefully enough sugar was already there.” Reischel's story also profiles several Delaware County farms where one can press their own apple cider. Since 2007, it has been illegal in New York to sell homemade cider, but one can drink their own hand-pressed cider. Read the full story in The Watershed Post.
[/caption]Julia Reischel in The Watershed Post reports this summer was a great growing season for apples. Jim Allen, the President of the New York Apple Association says all the rain in the spring and late summer helped make bigger fruit. “Apples are like a sponge,” Allen says. “They do soak the water up, and it does increase size.... One of the things that we’re very excited about is that during July and August, we were very warm and dry," he also says. "Those conditions make a lot of sugar in the apple. What happens in a lot of rain is that the water just dilutes that sugar back out. Hopefully enough sugar was already there.” Reischel's story also profiles several Delaware County farms where one can press their own apple cider. Since 2007, it has been illegal in New York to sell homemade cider, but one can drink their own hand-pressed cider. Read the full story in The Watershed Post.