#Apples
#Apples: Best value fruit at $5.99 for 2kg
#inSeasonNZ
Howgate Wonder is really a handful, 13-1/2 inches around and that's not even the biggest one.
But the question is, how does it eat?
#apples
https://adamapples.blogspot.com/2023/11/Howgate-Wonder-apple-taste-review.html
Hi @plants ! I have an apple tree (Santana cultivar) in my garden and it still has all the leaves. Is that normal for the end of November? 🤔 #apples #gardening
Some leaves still have a little chlorophyll remaining, but that will soon be broken down and taken in by the tree. The leaves on the ground are excellent soil conditioners, as they are a feed for worms, other soil vertebrates and invertebrates, nematodes, fungi and bacteria. Winter time is feeding times for our orchard worms. #photosynthesis #apples #autumn2023 #GoldenLeaves
analog gadget
makes me stupidly happy
#Apples #PeelCoreSlice #AnalogGadget #ApplePie #Pie #Baking #BakingTherapy #HealthyFoodIsLove
An orchards grows fruit, but a nursery grows wood.
Big shoutout Keepers Nursery in Kent, a small shop with a huge inventory.
More: https://adamapples.blogspot.com/2023/11/keepers-nursery.html
#apples
#Apples Simply Red: Best value fruit at $3.50 per kg
#inSeasonNZ
@RoxieRose85 I don't want to beat up on supermarket apples, which are a godsend in the off season and can be very good if handled properly.
But sometimes not so great.
#apples
Mulled cider season continues with a wonderful mix of a Friday Afternoon Tea augmented with a bourbon maple syrup and candied ginger during the simmer of the cider.
I have the notion that Rubinette is really a very good apple. But so far I have only been able to taste flawed samples.
Promising one though.
#apples
https://adamapples.blogspot.com/2023/11/rubinette-redux.html
Picked 200 lbs of #apples to donate to the local #foodbank.
That's just a tiny fraction of what the farm donated last week (9 pallets at about 1000 lbs each), with many tons still on the trees.
The #bears are starting to come in and that is a problem because they break off lots of branches, damaging or outright killing commercial trees.
Small growers of fruit are squeezed by huge "family farms", big name companies like Del Monte, and established large co-ops.
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A throwback to 2020 - The secret of the golden apple.
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«Markets have been “replaced by digital trading platforms which look like, but are not, markets”. The moment you enter amazon.com “you exit #capitalism” and enter something that resembles a “feudal fief”: a digital world belonging to one man and his algorithm, which determines what products you will see and what products you won’t see.
If you are a seller, the #platform will determine how you can sell and which #customers you can approach. The terms in which you interact, share information and trade are dictated by an “algo” that “works for [Jeff Bezos’] bottom line”.
The capitalists who rely on this mode of selling are granted access to the digital estate by its virtual landowners, the Big Tech companies. And if “vassal capitalists” don’t abide by the laws of the estate, they are kicked out – removed from #Apple’s App Store or #Google’s search index – with disastrous consequences for their business.
Access to the “digital fief” comes at the cost of exorbitant rents. Varoufakis notes that many third-party developers on the Apple store, for example, pay 30% “on all their revenues”, while #Amazon charges its sellers “35% of revenues”. This, he argues, is like a medieval #feudal lord sending round the sheriff to collect a large chunk of his serfs’ produce because he owns the estate and everything within it.
This is not extracting profit through the production or provision of goods and services, as these platforms are not a “service” in the sense in which the term is used in economics. They are extracting rents in the form of the huge cuts they take from the capitalists on their platforms.
There is “no disinterested invisible hand of the #market” here. The Big Tech platforms are exempted from free-market competition. Their owners – “cloudalists” – increase their wealth and power at a dizzying pace with each click, exploiting a new form of rent-seeking made possible by the new algorithmically structured digital platforms. Parasitic on capitalist production, they are now dominating it.
But something even more transformative has happened, Varoufakis argues.
Even though most of us are regularly interacting with capitalists and earning wages via our labour, now, for the first time in history, all of us contribute to “the wealth and power of the new ruling class” through our “unpaid labour”.
Every time we use our cloud-linked devices – smartphones, laptops, #Alexa, Google Assistant, #Siri – we replenish the capital of the Big Tech cloudalists. This in turn increases their capacity to generate more wealth. How? We train their algorithms, which train us, to train them, and so on, in a feedback loop whose goal is to shape our desires and behaviour. They are “selling things to us while selling our attention to others”.»
https://theconversation.com/is-capitalism-dead-yanis-varoufakis-thinks-it-is-and-he-knows-who-killed-it-213992
I walked almost 5 km today. This is less than my average from before I got sick. It made me a little bit tired, but not too bad. I also went picking apples. I’ve been picking apples every week, and making apple butter, cider, pies, and dried apples. Next up, apple sauce. I’ve lived here since 2016 and I’ve never seen anyone else pick from this tree. I don’t get it. The food is free and delicious. #forager #foraging #recovery #COVID #apples
Be careful if you use #Apples Find My network
https://ghacks.net/2023/11/06/apple-find-my-network-keylogger-attacks/
If you don’t only start paying attention to the NBA when the playoffs start, you’ll understand that for me the apple season starts when Gold Rush (L) and Ashmead’s Kernel (R) #apples appear in NYC greenmarkets.
#Apples: Best value fruit at $5.29 for 2kg
#inSeasonNZ
My old apple tree was nearly dead from borers. Several years of regular treatment with neem oil and the tree has survived. Last year was horrendous weather with too much wind and rain so any blossoms that it did have got destroyed.
This year is looking promising. And then we just had a storm blow through with hail. The tree and the blossoms have survived this round.
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Direkt aus dem Wohn- & Fäkalraum senden die Divers mit Ali Hackalife alles und mehr über die neuen M3 #Macs, #Apples #Event-Video und Bens Apple.
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#Apples: Best value fruit at $4.00 for 2kg
#inSeasonNZ
For folks in Southern California, the two big apple-growing areas left are Oak Glen, near San Bernardino, and Julian, near San Diego. Here's a vlog about a trip to Julian.
One thing folks who aren't connected to growing need to remember - not only do apples in general have a peak season, but these orchards grow varieties that have a season within that. So look up whether the apples you want (or any apples they grow) are in season before traveling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWBW8l0aV1Q #FruitToot #Apples
Expand your Eclectic Witch Card Deck with our exclusive Fall Magick cards. These 10 cards can be used on your altar, pasted in your book of shadows, or filed in a binder for easy reference!
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#FallMagick #EclecticWitch #Gratitude #Harvest #Knitting #Pumpkins #Apples #Cocoa #Autumn #Magick
Traditionally, English #cider was made by pressing it and leaving it in semicovered oak barrels on the northern side of the house. It would slowly bubble away and come spring you'd have a nice clear still strong cider.
I'm trying to replicate that a bit here, with my Danish ciders, so as soon as fermentation has begun in earnest I move the ciders outside. Currently it's 7*C and they're still happily bubbling.
The idea is that a slow fermentation preserves more apple character and also does not produce as many of the unappetizing flavours which are produced by stressed or hyperactive yeasts.
I have been really revelling in apple szn this year.
Which apples are you loving this year?
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My faves are:
#1 - Sunrise
#2 - Honeycrisp
Loki lured Iðunn out of Asgard with the promise of apples even more beautiful than her own. There she was kidnapped by the jötunn Þjazi, from whom Loki had to recover her.
https://bit.ly/3ScDqWx
#Idunn #Youth #Norse #Iduna #DivineFeminine #Goddess #Fertility #Beauty #Apples #Magick
Culinary Adventures #104: Apples in Nightgowns
https://zenmischief.com/2023/10/culinary-adventures-104-apples-in-nightgowns/
#blog #zenmischief #food #apples
Anyone grow Brownlees Russet apples? What do you think of them and where are you growing them (region, conditions)?
God's Pantry Food Bank has received a full-truckload donation of Fresh Apples.
Such a wonderful gift for us to distribute to our neighbours in food security need in 50 counties of Kentucky.
#FoodBank #FreshProduce #Apples #Kentucky
#Apples: Best value fruit at $4.20 for 2kg
#inSeasonNZ
Today we processed ~160 pounds of apples from our trees into 12 (originally wrote 9, forgetting the last batch) beautiful quarts of apple sauce. Only took a team of 3 people 8.5 hours to do it - but it was lots of fun and good family time. The thumbs are sore from all the peeling!!
Another day processing apples from our trees! So far, 9 pies worth of granny smith's have been frozen. Now onto Macintosh apples for apple sauce!
#gardening #food #apples
Apple Season! I made this Apple ginger galette and thought I’d share my recipe. It’s a great way to use apples and simpler than a for real apple pie. #apples #galette #fallbaking #baking
The Trojan war was started by an apple, when Paris presented a golden apple, inscribed with the word ‘kallistei’ (‘to the fairest one’), to Aphrodite. This did not go down well with Hera and Athena which ultimately led to the war.
10 things you might not know about apples:
https://topicaltens.blogspot.com/2014/10/21st-october-apple-day.html
My great aunt on the ladder and my grandmother sitting on the ground under the tree.
That's a 12 foot orchard ladder she is standing on top of, and the other ladder is a 14 foot. I believe they are thinning the apple trees. This is in the early 1930's most likely .
Honestly, apple season is slay.
Rack of apples in the dehydrator. Several pounds worth. 135F for 16-17 hours will probably do it. You can tell these went through the peeler/cover due to their extremely regular slices. #apples #preserving #dehydrator
The two slow ones are looking like the rest now. Maybe just enough of a temperature difference being out in front and more exposed to the room air than the others and they had cooled more overnight.
Interesting to see the progress like this when they're not all the same.
#cider #apples #orchard #growyourown #hardcider #homebrewing #homebrew #alcohol
The two odd or slower ones. Getting active, but finer bubbles only.
All of these in glass don't have any yeast added so only whatever wild yeast the apples had on them.
This means you can't rely on the outcome from one year to the next.
I did this with picked grapes one year. Best wine ever, not dry. Next year, tasted like typical dry wine most people like. 😁
#cider #apples #orchard #growyourown #hardcider #homebrewing #homebrew #alcohol
Active fermentation bubbling.
#cider #apples #orchard #growyourown #hardcider #homebrewing #homebrew #alcohol
The 'wild' cider is fermenting somewhat vigorously. Saw a little junk in one of the air locks.
The two that were from the overfill in the buckets have not taken off in the same way. They represent an overall mix except for the cider that went in the other glass which from the last squeezed apples only.
#cider #apples #orchard #growyourown #hardcider #homebrewing #homebrew #alcohol
Apples galore at the local gardeners' autumn show. Mouthwatering ...
#apples #autumn #thanksgiving #erntedank #Äpfel #Herbst #obstbauern #sunflowers #Sonnenblumen
Oak trees occasionally drop apples in Minecraft.
I wonder if there will ever be an update in that game to add in actual apple trees? It would be cool to have an apple orchard there.
C'est fini
#garden is done for the year. In a few weeks it will be frozen solid (normally). Only thing left is a volunteer sunflower that the bees are still enjoying (while they can). Now on to picking the best pie apples ever! (var. Baldwin) Chipmunks have been raiding the crop, but there's still plenty for us. 😀
#gardening
#Allotment
#NewEngland
#autumn
#apples
#today
@BroadforkForVictory I will bottle it before it gets too warm in the basement is my goal. It usually cools off enough it stops bubbling but then it wakes back up as spring comes around.
Here's what my 2020 looks like that I just opened a bottle of. Lots of carbonation, it wasn't chilled.
#cider #hardcider #homebrew #fermenting #alcohol #apples #orchard #VerticalVideo
There was 2.75 gallons, or 10.4 liters, of cider that didn't go in the buckets and I don't have anything big enough for all of that without leaving a lot of head space.
No sugar or yeast added. I'll see what it does after a day or so and if it's not bubbling I'll put some yeast in and maybe some sugar. I might do that anyway with one just to get a visual reference without opening up a bucket.
#cider #hardcider #homebrew #fermenting #alcohol #apples #orchard
French again! but it's made in Belgium.
I use Safale s-04 dry ale yeast. If you keep it at about 66F or 19C or lower you won't get off tastes with a long ferment. Everything will settle out, it will clear up almost perfectly after 4-5 months.
#cider #hardcider #homebrew #fermenting #alcohol #apples #orchard
The foam was removed from the top, the sugar was added to both buckets and I determined I needed to remove a little bit so the air lock wouldn't be touching the cider, took 3 quarts total out of both buckets.
It was stirred vigorously, and the last patch of foam was skimmed out. Then the yeast was pitched, and it seemed happy.
#cider #hardcider #homebrew #fermenting #alcohol #apples #orchard
I got two full buckets, nearly 7 gallons or about 26 liters each. First we measure the specific gravity so we know how much sugar to add to hit our target. It measures about 1.055 so our previous years notes say that 5 lbs, or 2.25 kg, will bring it up to around 1.090 which is our target. Why math when you have notes. The temperature of the cider was 60F too so no conversions.
#cider #hardcider #homebrew #fermenting #alcohol #apples #orchard
This is how I feed the apples into the grinder. This will hold about as many as you want to squeeze at once if you stack them up.
#cider #apples #orchard #growyourown #gardening #allotment #garten #Apfelgarten
The 2023 cider making has commenced.
#cider #apples #orchard #growyourown #gardening #allotment #garten #Apfelgarten
Du cidre français ? Ces pommes ont une drôle d'allure sur le seau. Oui, oui 🤔
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I'll have about 12 milk crates of apples, this will only fill up the three buckets.
I usually selectively pick but I picked everything that wasn't brown and rotten. They say it adds flavor. We'll see. I smelled some of the various bad spots on the apples and nothing smelled bad.
One crate each of Jonathans and Spitz for storage and pies.
#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #allotment #growyourown
And the lichen on the old tree.
#LichenSubscribe #apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #JonathanApple #allotment #growyourown
The Jonathan's. 7 milk crates from the big tree and almost a full tubtrug from the one graft limb on the gravenstein tree.
#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #EsopusSpitzenburg #JonathanApple #allotment #growyourown
The last spitz picked, it was the only one on those trees I needed to use the ladder to pick and it looks great.
#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #EsopusSpitzenburg #allotment #growyourown
It's time to pick apples. Here's what I'm calling the spitz, or Esopus Spitzenburg apples picked off the two trees. Maybe about 13 gallons or 50 liters in volume.
#apples #orchard #gardening #harvest #cider #EsopusSpitzenburg #allotment #growyourown
Amazing display of dozens of varieties of British #apples and #pears at Frank Matthews trees near Tenbury Wells. Disappointing that choice in supermarkets is often restricted to the same few varieties from overseas. #SeasonofMellowFruitfulness #Sustainability #LOAF #LocalFruit
edit: got a few great tips, thank you! Going to learn how to do it myself :D
Starting to realise that the crowd who pruned our apple trees probably didn’t know wtf they were doing despite being tree surgeons. Anyone got any tips for dealing with excessive water shoots in old apple trees? The RHS site says they’re bad but doesn’t exactly go into detail on how to deal with them. I assume I just get rid of them but what’s stopping them coming back every year? #gardening #apples
In my quest to provide novel, apple-related posts, I've upgraded my approach with a video! Behold the powerful, yet simple, mechanical device that peels, cores, and slices apples quickly and reliably! Which will lead to apple sauce.
Anyone know of any apple varieties we can get, grow here in the UK that need relatively fewer chill hours?
Got another batch of apple sauce going today.
My #drawing companion Buddy and I went looking for local #apples. We crossed the #RioGrande to #Corrales and drove north until we saw an #orchard sign. Lovely #adobe buildings, a sheet on the shop door said take care as you step down. We discussed apple sorts and history, the owner said the farm had been in their family since 1898, originally a #vineyard. Buddy and I bought a brown paper bag of apples, the paper to become a sketchbook cover. #NewMexico #Watercolor #DogsofMastodon
@goatsarah @fne8w2ah #Apples #Lightning Connector was shit from day 1 and had 0 reasons to exist - unlike the original #DockConnector, but even then the #iPod could've used #MiniUSB or #MicroUSB + #AV-Chinch and #MHL to do Audio & Video.
#MagSafe is also another #proprietary #SingleVendor solution when #Qi+ existed for over a decade.
I'm picky about apples, but _nothing_ beats an apple fresh off the tree. They are in their best form. It's apple picking season in New England, the best time for apples. I'll eat apples of varities that I'd normally throw while arguing how bad they are, right off the tree. There is something about being fresh, that brings out the best in them.
I had a Mac yesterday, (generally not a fan) but it was fresh, crisp and bright, so good.
Started another small batch of apple sauce today using apples from the tree in our yard. The hand-cranked apple peeler also slices and cores each apple, and does it quickly. This particular variety of apple starts to brown before I even have it off the peeler.
Ok, here's a cycling story that ties together a few things I've posted about previously.
I posted recently about the large number of apples that our sole apple tree has produced this summer. We're making apple sauce, and peeling apples by hand is tedious, so I wanted to get one of those old hand-cranked apple peelers. Happily, Lee Valley carries them so I figured I'd cycle out to get one. That worked well.
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BunMum has concquered the #Apples!
Finished this morning. A few memories 😂❤️:
I tape apples up with the names of friends--this one is for my wife. The name will cook to a bright red, while the taped parts will remain green(ish). #apples #trees #photography #solarPrints #pnw #botany #art
Apple-the-company is using lawyers and money (but not guns so far) to force apple growers to stop using images of apples-the-fruit to represent what they grow.
https://www.wired.com/story/apple-vs-apples-trademark-battle/
“Think different” my ass!
I hereby apologize for ever using Apple computers and phones.
Emerging from paternity leave and twitter appears to be a mess.
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I'm interested in how to design strong, effective and just climate policy and how analysis can help (or hurt) that process.
Sideline in #highered climate policy.
Sneak peek at our #RoshHashanah 5784 #merch patterns!
I’m pretty excited about these!
1. Abstract #Lunar #Phases (great for #RoshChodesh… and pretty much any time of year)
2. Watercolor #Pomegranates (in red with green leaves on a white background)
3. Colorful #Apples (in #red, #green, and #yellow, #pink, #purple, and light #blue on a light #turquoise background)
4. Red, Yellow, and Green Apples (on a dark #teal background)
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Who in this day and age is eating red delicious #apples?
Batch of dehydrated #apples, sealed into a mylar bag for future use. 135F for 14 hours. Also added some oxygen absorbers before ironing this shut.
Very busy yeast working on an apple rhubarb hard cider. 🍎🍏