Pictures from Heyser Farm

We had a wonderful day at the orchard. We learned about the apple trees, saw bee hives, smelled the compost pile, watched the chickens, sorted apples by size and watched Mr. Gavin make cider.  We all got to taste some and it was delicious.  

Learning about the chickens

watching the apples take a bath before heading to the cider machine

filling our cider bottles

the cider machine - sorts, grinds and distributes pulp onto trays
the cider drips through and the trays are left with dried pulp

listening to Miss Marcy teach us how to make cider