Apple Day

Last weekend was the unofficial "Apple Day" here at Tyndale House. A number of us picked the rest of the apples from the apple tree here, and then walked across the street to Newnham College where they freely let us pick more of their apples. Our goal: Apple Cider!

Here's Jim shaking the tree!


And the kids walking through Newnham College with their haul--like the 12 spies on their way home from the Promised Land with too much fruit to carry. Note the heavy bags of apples on a pole.

What did we do with all these apples?

Right next to the girls' school is a little farm that had an Apple Day~people could bring their apples to be identified and pressed, they also had a few little rides for the children to enjoy.

Here are a few pictures of the 'pressing' process:

First, Jim poured the apples into a regular garden shredder~

They were shredded into a big bin~

And then put into the actual press~



We all took turns pressing the apple pieces, and it got progressively much harder!

Here you see the cider slowly coming out~we actually filled this whole bin.

My friend Rahela and I are pouring the final product into containers. It was wonderful cider, I wish you could have tried it!

Here is Andrew on one of the farm's old tractors!

Sarah riding one of the rides~


and all the children enjoyed the trampoline!