Apple Picking at Shelburne Orchards in Vermont
source: http://www.organicnation.tv/blog/picking-apples-at-shelburne-orchards-in-vermont.html
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It's apple season, folks, and the best way to get them is to go and pick them yourselves. Yesterday, Dorothee and I headed to Shelburne, VT, which is about 10 miles south of Burlington, to visit Shelburne Orchards, a 80-acre orchard that grows both organic and non-organic apples.
Apples are at the center of the organic vs. local debate in the Northeast, because it's so difficult to grow organic apples in this climate. Before finding Shelburne, I called around to several Vermont orchards, and most of the growers told me that they weren't organic and that they didn't even know of any organic apple growers in the area.
Read more here: http://www.organicnation.tv/blog/picking-apples-at-shelburne-orchards-in-vermont...
Apples are at the center of the organic vs. local debate in the Northeast, because it's so difficult to grow organic apples in this climate. Before finding Shelburne, I called around to several Vermont orchards, and most of the growers told me that they weren't organic and that they didn't even know of any organic apple growers in the area.
Read more here: http://www.organicnation.tv/blog/picking-apples-at-shelburne-orchards-in-vermont...
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