Keeps the doctor away, right? Do you think that apple that dropped on Isaac Newton's head felt like anything at all? I was born and live in Sydney, Australia, however I was fortunate to spend quite a lot of time in Orange, NSW growing up as my closest aunt and uncle and cousins lived there. They had a small acreage with a small orchard of big glossy crisp red Rome Beauty apples, the best apples I ever ate in my entire life. Sadly the Rome Beauty trees are no more, however last time I was there I did eat loads of apples (Fuji & Sundowner) straight from the picking crates.
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| Picking Crate - Sundowners |
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| Crispy Sundowner fresh from the tree |
An apple contains pretty impressive amounts of antioxidants so should be on everyone's list of things to eat. Buying them at the grocer can be a disappointment, but then not everyone can actually go to the orchard or pick one straight off the tree. I'm just that lucky.
Anyway, the apple cold store is rather big too (and cold, like something minus zero). My uncle Mike is over 6 feet tall and he stands here to show the scale of a small portion of one storeroom.
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| Cold Store is rather large, this is one of maybe 8 or so and only half full |
Apart from apples they also grow cherries in Orange, and
grapes (mmm, to make wine) wool and cattle, but definitely no oranges...what?
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| The Orchard |
The house on the hill
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| The tractor |
And the frost on a May morning at my uncle's place
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| Frosty Eucalypt - that's an electric fence in the foreground to keep the horses away from the house paddock |
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