{"id":1933,"date":"2017-10-08T18:16:21","date_gmt":"2017-10-09T01:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/?page_id=1933"},"modified":"2018-10-25T14:31:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T21:31:30","slug":"october-8-2017-applegarden-farm-tour","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/october-8-2017-applegarden-farm-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"October 8, 2017: AppleGarden Farm Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We had such a fun tour learning about hard cider making at <a href=\"https:\/\/applegardenfarm.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"external\">AppleGarden Farm<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Based near Tomales, Jan and Louis purchased the property in 2007 and planted semi-dwarf apple varieties. They make &#8216;farmstead&#8221; cider with no added sweeteners or concentrates.<\/p>\n<p>From their website: &#8220;We also wanted to have a complete hands-on operation: we would not only grow and hand-pick all the apples, we\u2019d also take care of all the other operations that go with cider making: sort, wash, grind, and press. After picking the apples as they ripen, we store them at a controlled temperature for a couple of weeks so they completely develop all the inherent sugars. We then wash, sort, and press, putting the juice into 30 gallon drums to ferment. Using all natural yeast, we watch the fermentation closely and when it\u2019s finished, rack into another stainless steel drum to mature. When we decide the cider is ready after a few months, bottling and labeling is done by hand so that each bottle is the perfect result of months of loving care.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1936\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nHappy hens in the organic orchard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1939\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nThere are multiple varieties of apples.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1940\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour03.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nTour in the orchard.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1941\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour04.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nPotluck picnic.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1945\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Beautiful apples.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1949\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour08.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nBeehives.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1950\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour09.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nJan and her husband, Louis, are the farmers and cider-makers.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1955\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\nBottling.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1956\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1957\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour15.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1958\" src=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/files\/2017\/10\/2017-10-AppleGardenTour16.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Fermenting barrels of cider.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">~ Karen Hamilton-Roth<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We had such a fun tour learning about hard cider making at AppleGarden Farm. Based near Tomales, Jan and Louis purchased the property in 2007 and planted semi-dwarf apple varieties. They make &#8216;farmstead&#8221; cider with no added sweeteners or concentrates. From their website: &#8220;We also wanted to have a complete hands-on operation: we would not&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/events\/october-8-2017-applegarden-farm-tour\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":82,"featured_media":0,"parent":308,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1933","page","type-page","status-publish","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/82"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1933\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chapters.westonaprice.org\/marincountyca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}