Apple picking
Ben and clan went apple picking at Honey Pot Hill Orchards in Stow yesterday:
We had Apple pie last night, apple pan dowdy tonight. Can apple crisp be far?
Carpundit and clan warn everybody away from Marino's Lookout Farm in Natick, where the orchard guides don't speak English and they were charged $70 for four smallish half-filled bags of apples:
... In other words, though they don't tell you about it at the start, you'll pay more than a dollar an apple at Marino Farm. Far more than Stop and Shop, for example.
But at least the service sucked and the people were rude and spoke only a foreign language.
Ed. note: Like Ben and family, we went to Honey Pot Hill this weekend, where, in addition to picking way more apples than we would normally eat, we were strafed by fighter planes and saw U.S. Rep. Steven Lynch with assorted nieces and nephews (which I note mainly because it's my one almost celebrity sighting of the year, and, yes, I lead a boring life).
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Honey Pot Hill
I want to go there someday for the name alone ;)
but we're quite fond of Gould Hill Orchard in Contoocook, NH.
Death Of A Tradition
We went to Honey Pot Hill on Sunday, too, and I have to say I think they've ruined it with all the changes they've made this year. I don't recall ever having to wait in so many lines -- a line to get in, a line to park, a line to buy a bag, a line for the hayride to the farm stand, a line to buy a hotdog, a line to get back on the hayride, a line to walk up into the orchard, one more hayride line, and, of course, the line to use the porta-potty.
I also don't recall ever seeing so many people at HPH. It seemed like it was swarming. We've been going to Honey Pot Hill for years, but this was the last time for us. Next year we'll be looking for someplace else.