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Sebastopol Community Apple Press 2017 Season: OCT. 15 CANCELLED

October 15, 2017 @ 9:00 am - 3:00 pm

Free
Slow Food Russian River Sebastopol Community Apple Press 2017 Season

NB. Because of the continuing wildfires in the region the Community Apple Press will be closed this coming weekend, Oct. 14-15.

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Slow Food Russian River operates the Sebastopol Community Apple Press at the Luther Burbank Gold Ridge Experiment Farm in Sebastopol during apple season – from August through October. Use of the press is a free community service. Address is 7781 Bodega Ave, Sebastopol, CA 95472. Map.

Reserve the Sebastopol Community Apple Press for the 2017 Season

Sign up to use the Sebastopol Community Apple Press for the 2017 season to press your apples into great tasting juice.

At the Sebastopol Community Apple Press, Slow Food volunteers create a safe and fun environment where you can press your apples and drink the juice at the source or bottle it to take home.

For the 2017 season the Community Apple Press is open on most weekends from August till October. If you wish to volunteer at the Press please sign up here. Volunteering is the way to go to participate in the local food movement.

Some folks bring apples from their own backyard trees, while others buy apples from one of our local apple growers.

What Locally Grown Apples are Good for Juicing?

The Sonoma County Apple Season starts mid to late July with the Gravenstein Apple. This is a versatile apple that is eaten fresh, or used in baking and cooking. Or, as you will do at the Community Apple Press, it is pressed into delicious apple juice, to be enjoyed fresh or fermented into hard cider.

The Gravenstein has a short growing season and does not keep well. It is is a triploid (has 3 sets of chromosomes in the nucleus):it requires pollination from other trees, and is a poor pollinator of other apples.  Apples in general do not breed true when planted as seeds and grafting is generally used to produce new apple trees.

Other local apples fit for juicing include Baldwin (also known as ‘Calville Butter’, ‘Felch’, ‘Late Baldwin’, ‘Pecker’, ‘Red Baldwin’s Pippin’, ‘Steele’s Red Winter’, and ‘Woodpecker’)

Also the Blacktwig, Golden Supreme, Honeycrisp, Jonagold, Jonathan, McIntosh (the official apple of Canada), Northern Spy, Cripps Pink

Then there are the Pink Pearl (developed in 1944 by Albert Etter, a Garberville breeder), Rhode Island Greening (an old, historic American apple variety and the official fruit of the state of Rhode Island).

Or Rome Beauty, Stayman Winesap (like the Gravenstein a triploid apple cultivar), and Winesap.

Ask for these apples at grower stands and on our farmers market. Some grocery stores may also carry local apples, including Oliver’s Markets, Community Market, Andy’s Market, Whole Foods.

Or check out these other local stores: Bill’s Farm Basket, and Fiesta (Pacific Market).

Details

Date:
October 15, 2017
Time:
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Cost:
Free
Event Category:

Organizer

Slow Food Russian River Apple Core
Phone
707-876-3221
Email
info@slowfoodrr.org

Venue

Luther Burbank’s Gold Ridge Experiment Farm
7777 Bodega Ave
Sebastopol, CA 95472 United States
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