Pacific Northwest Gardening: Fall Fun in the Northwest, 1 by mauryhillfarm

mauryhillfarm wrote:
Well hey, if we manage to do another pressing this year, I'll post it here and anybody who feels like a ferry boat ride and a turn around the cider press can come on over. Our sweet apple tree was ripe and mostly harvested for Sunday's pressing, but our tree with dense, tart apples still isn't ripe and there are bushels of them that will go to waste if we don't do something. We are scoping out a source of sweeter, late ripening apples to mix with them. If we have enough energy and inspiration, we'll go for it.

We bought into the press with 2 other families, so we'd also have to coordinate with them. It is a pretty cool machine, and can process 50 gallons in several hours. It has an electric apple chopper, and then you manually twist the crank to press the juice out of the pulp.