Apple Picking

Nothing better than a fresh picked apple

Lily loved them too!

Just one of the three huge bushels of apples we picked.

This post is a little late but a few weeks ago we went apple picking. Our original plan was to go out to a farm and pick apples and pay for whatever we picked, then I started noticing apples everywhere I looked. Every other neighbour had a tree full of apples! I put the word out that we were looking to come and pick apples and luckily our friends parents had a tree ripe for the picking. We packed up our baskets and a ladder and honestly within twenty minutes of picking apples we had three baskets overflowing with ripe organic apples, yet the tree looked like it hadn't even been touched. These were seriously the best apples I have ever tasted in my life. AH-mazing! We made applesauce, apple pie, apple muffins and cut and froze a ton of apples for the winter. I wish I knew how to can otherwise I would have canned a ton of readymade apple pie filling, maybe next year. A huge thank you to Elliot's parents for letting us pick their apples. How amazing that you can grow organic apples on a tree in your yard for many to enjoy for years. We will definitely be planting an apple tree if we ever when we buy a house of our own. When I think of fall I always think of apples, you?

I Heart Fall Markets

 I know it isn't officially fall yet, but it sure feels like it. This weekend we went to our local market to see what produce the farmers brought this week. The market runs from May to the end of October and there is always an abundance of amazing and well priced organic local produce. The best of both (or all three!) worlds. Above are some super delish radishes...mmm

 Really lovely hungarian sweet peppers, and I don't know what the dark green ones are, but they look good?

 Local strawberries and cherry tomatoes. LOVE the gingham tablecloth.

 Hot peppers, dare you to eat one.

 Yummy squash like things, we actually bought the BIG zucchini to make a massive batch of tomato sauce to freeze for the winter. Along with the zucchini we got five pounds of local organic tomatoes, two organic sweet red peppers and a huge bunch of basil, all for eighteen dollars. I think that is a great deal, especially since you are buying local organic produce straight from the farmer. Awesome.

On our walk home we stopped at the park for a quick go on the swings. Lily was pretty stoked. Can't wait for next week, pretty soon we are going to get our pumpkins for making pies, soups and of course, jack-o-lanterns!