Where to go apple picking with grandparents next weekend?

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Anonymous wrote:I 100+ the Homestead Farms idea -- whenever I go there, I wonder why I didn't go earlier in the year or several times.

Maybe because they charge an admission fee right now?

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Yeah, I’m not going anywhere that charges and admission fee. Ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this.

Maybe your children would learn to value hard work.

Oh FOR THE LOVE. Could you have a more privileged response? Taking your kids apple picking DOES NOT teach them to value hard work. And it is so completely insulting that this is what you think. There are people who do this kind of back breaking work all day every day for a pittance. That is hard work. Driving your privileged butt to an orchard for one day is not even remotely the same thing.

Calm down, you seem irrational af.

Which is it? Are the children/parents doing the "work of underpaid migrant workers" or not? Of course they're not working for the hours and low pay of the actual workers, but if they're doing it for the hour or so and they think that it's hard to do then it becomes a teachable moment about how some people do this all day long and at a much faster pace just so that they can feed their families so maybe think about that before you eat half an apple and toss the rest etc.

Except that you literally take all the low hanging fruit and leave the hard stuff for the workers - lol! These are the same people who send their kids on "service" trips to help little brown children for a week and of course, to work on their Spanish and their college essay.

Your contempt for the people who visit seems a bit misplaced. Why isn't this the employers' fault? I was at Great Country Farms last wkd, and there was a "Trump 2020" sticker on the back of the tractor that pulled our wagon out to the apple fields. Too late to turn back as I'd already paid admission.

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What's the rush on this? I know OP has grandparents in town that she wants to include, but for everyone else. It's barely Sept. and I know people who went apple picking last weekend. Why not wait until it actually feels like fall??

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Once it feels like fall, the apple season is over.

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Larriland Farms!

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Anonymous wrote:Larriland Farms!

The best! Go in Oct for the apple fritters.

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Anonymous wrote:What's the rush on this? I know OP has grandparents in town that she wants to include, but for everyone else. It's barely Sept. and I know people who went apple picking last weekend. Why not wait until it actually feels like fall??

Because the apples get picked over early.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this.

We go every year and love it. First of all we all enjoy being outside for any reason is the nice fall weather. Second, it is an activity that scales to the level of engagement and skill of each participant. The toddler can find low-hanging ones and play with his bucket and the tween can compete with dad to find the most/biggest apples. Finally, the apples taste so much better right off the tree. The first time we went, my then-one year old took a bite then looked in amazement at his apple and said “Dat got honey in it!” It was so sweet he thought it must have his favorite sweetener added somehow.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this.

We go every year and love it. First of all we all enjoy being outside for any reason is the nice fall weather. Second, it is an activity that scales to the level of engagement and skill of each participant. The toddler can find low-hanging ones and play with his bucket and the tween can compete with dad to find the most/biggest apples. Finally, the apples taste so much better right off the tree. The first time we went, my then-one year old took a bite then looked in amazement at his apple and said “Dat got honey in it!” It was so sweet he thought it must have his favorite sweetener added somehow.

Your 1 year old could speak a sentence?

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Anonymous wrote:Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this.

It’s so contrived. “Omg I need to get the perfect fall Instagram pic”

Yup.

Agree with this. But if you enjoy it even without the social media post, then go right ahead.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this.

We go every year and love it. First of all we all enjoy being outside for any reason is the nice fall weather. Second, it is an activity that scales to the level of engagement and skill of each participant. The toddler can find low-hanging ones and play with his bucket and the tween can compete with dad to find the most/biggest apples. Finally, the apples taste so much better right off the tree. The first time we went, my then-one year old took a bite then looked in amazement at his apple and said “Dat got honey in it!” It was so sweet he thought it must have his favorite sweetener added somehow.

Your 1 year old could speak a sentence?

One year old could be 18 months. Nasty response.

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Anonymous wrote:Oh for the love of God with the apple picking. "Hey kids, let's go pay to do the work of underpaid migrant workers. It'll be fun!" I will never understand this.

It’s so contrived. “Omg I need to get the perfect fall Instagram pic”

Seriously?
This says so much more about you than the people going. Not everyone has instagram. Nor does everyone plan family events for the sole purpose of posting on social media. You might want to look up from YOUR OWN SCREEN once in awhile and see whats going on.

We actually go apple picking and make a day of it as a fun family outing, and **gasp**, actually do it because we enjoy it. If we get a few good pics, cool. Maybe they make it onto a christmas card? End of story.

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When you can leisurely stroll and pick apples on a nice day, that is not hard labor. When you are doing it for 12 hours a day and have quotas to fill and make minimum wage, and have to carry heavy loads, operate and manage equipment etc. then it is. But that's not what we're talking about.

Our favorite is Larriland Farm in MD.
http://www.pickyourown.com/todays-harvest/

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We went a few weeks ago to Homestead Farm and had a great time. We even talked about how some people do this for work all of the time. We then took several IG worthy picks, then went home and made a shit ton of apple products.