Apples..................Apples..................and more Apples! Fresh pressed cider, mulled cider, hard cider
Apple Butter and Brunswick Stew simmering over open fires, made on site by the CoveGarden Ruritans
Old fashioned Fried Apple Pies, Rachel Willis' Caramel Apples, and more.
Local Food Vendors featuring: Gryffon's Aerie Beef and Foods of All Nations Barbecue
Artisan
Food and Craft Vendors: Caramont Farm Cheese, Pettigrew Woodworks,
White Oak Baskets, Farmstead Ferments, Tall Cotton Farm and dozens more
offering jams and jellies, hand crafted soaps, ironwork, jewelry, and
baked goods
Entertainment
Hayrides over the mountainside, all day
Music throughout the day
Workshops
Featured Workshops and Specials:
- 10:30-10:50: Apple and Cheese Pairing w/ Caromont Farm and VVA
- 11:00-11:20: Jay Rostow VA Vinegarworks: Making and Using Vinegar at Home
- 12:00-12:50: Apple Pie Contest!
- 1:00-1:20: Meg Shelton: Cool Season Gardening, Fall into Spring
- 1:30-1:50: Apple Tasting with Vintage Virginia Apples, book signing with Tom Burford
- 2:00-2:20: Daniel Perry: Making the Perfect Jam
- 2:30-2:50: Deborah Harriman, Master Gardeners : “What’s the Buzz? How to have a bee-friendly garden”
- 3:00-3:20: Vintage VA Apples: Starting the Home Orchard
- Albemarle Pippins $34/bushel
- Tours of Albemarle CiderWorks cidery
Apple Pie Contest
Have
a great pie recipe? Bake it up and enter to win prizes from Albemarle
CiderWorks and The Charlottesville Cooking School! Details below:
- Each
year at the Vintage Virginia Apples Harvest Festival, bakers from
across central VA submit their best apple pies for taste testing by a
panel of local food luminaries. Woo the judges with your carefully
selected apple varieties and secret ingredients!
First and
second place winners will take home gift certificates from VVA and The
Charlottesville Cooking School. After the judging, all pies will be sold
by the slice by the Cove Garden Ruritans, with proceeds supporting
their philanthropic endeavors.
To sign up, email fruit@albemarleciderworks.com,
or call 434 297 2326. On Saturday November 4, please plan to deliver
your pie to the events tent by 11:30 a.m. Judging will begin at noon,
and prizes will be announced around 12:30 pm. Please deliver pies in
disposable pie tins, with a notecard listing your name, contact info,
and ingredients attached to the bottom.
For more information - https://www.albemarleciderworks.com/news/harvest-festival